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Ukrainian Christmas rituals ended on Epiphany holiday. The evening before the holiday was called Generous Evening. That evening Ukrainians had fast and cooked kutya. They also went to the church and hallowed water. Later they began meals with this water and the host sprinkled it on the family, house and wells. Another ritual dish for Epiphany was called podpalok – a honey cookie. After dinner the host went into cattle-shed, sprinkled holy water there, drew crosses and ate podpalok to get saved from evil spirits. The apogee of Epiphany happened when the priest put his cross into the water and made it holy. Traditionally it took place on the river coasts or near lakes. Ukrainians cut a cross in the ice, put wooden cross vertically and poured beet drink upon it so that it turned red, decorated it with flowers and pine branches. Epiphany water was considered to be universal medicine from all the diseases. Bottles filled with it stood in each Ukrainian village house. After Epiph ... Read more » |
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February 17th is Random Acts of Kindness Day! We will be playing the new fangled game of tag, where "you're it" because someone has done something nice for you. Then it's your turn to do something nice for someone else and, in the process, pass the card along. This is a game of pay-it-forward: anonymously make someone smile, leave behind a card asking them to keep the ripple going. It's easy and fun. Is kindness truly contagious? There's only one way to find out ...
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St. Valentine's Day inherited from Western culture, is now very popular in Ukraine.
Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday for people who fell in love. This day they present each other with valentines – greeting cards with poems to declare their love. Manufactured cards, decorated with cupids and hearts, appeared near the end of the eighteenth century. A purchased valentine became the most popular way to declare love during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Miniature works of art, the cards were usually hand painted and were often lavishly decorated with laces, silk or satin, flowers (made from the feathers of tropical birds), glass filigrees, gold-leaf or even perfumed sachets!
Happy Valentine Day!
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The tradition of celebrating on February 9, "The International Day of the dentist" is gaining popularity worldwide. Celebrate Day of the dentist on February 9, the day of St. Apollonia has good reasons, first among them - it's surprisingly attractive image of Apollonia, come down to us through the ages.
Apollonia was subjected to severe torture, demanding the renunciation of Christianity. When she refused to renounce his faith, she was captured, at first she pulled all her teeth and threatened to burn her alive. Apollonius did not flinch in the face of death.
Holy Apollonius and has become such a symbol, timeless and vnekonfessionalny, as evidenced by the devotion of her name by dentists around the world for three centuries.
Dear dentists, mark this day for their pleasure, because in our lives such holidays is not so much!
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Dnipropetrovsk zoo or zoozona as the locals call it, is part of Shevchenko park. This park is divided into two parts, the part where the zoo is located on the Monastyrskiy Island. From the beginning of the island to the zoo's only about five minutes walk away.
Dnipropetrovsk zoo was opened in 1972. Zoo is quite small, It is home to only about 40 species of animals. Here is: fox, coyotes, monkeys, raccoon dogs, goats, hawks, porcupines and wolves, bison, camels, etc. The zoo operates a terrarium. |
Student's day (Tatiana's day)
On 25th January 1755 Shuvalov (the favorite man of Russian empress Elisabeth) has endorse the Moscow University project (the first on the tsar Russia territory). He was trying to time this event with the name-day of his mother Tatiana Petrovna. "I present you University", - he told her on 12th Jan (25th according to the new style). Students consider the celebration of this holiday as their sacred duty and brace it with different concerts and exhibitions.
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Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad Iryney blesses people on the occasion of the Epiphany in Dnirpopetrovsk, Ukraine, on January 19, 2011. UKRINFORM.
DNIPROPETROVSK, January 19. On the occasion of the Epiphany, after the religious service in Holy Trinity Cathedral, churchgoers carrying an icon of Mother of God held a sacred procession to the Dnipro river. There Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad Iryney blessed water near John the Baptist's church. After the blessing, volunteers plunged into the river under the surveillance of the rescue service. |
Christmas is a wonderful holiday, it’s a feast of Christ’s birth and it’s celebrated on the eve of 7th of January. In the mid-4th century it was established by the Roman Catholic church as a separate feast and was celebrated on 25 December according to the Julian calendar. In the 10th century with the introduction of the Christianity into Rus it was fused with the local pagan celebrations of the sun’s return or the commencement of the agricultural year. In some areas was used the pre-Christian name of the feast — Koliada. The Christmas Eve is considered as the most interesting part of Christmas as it has ritual and magic acts aimed at ensuring a good harvest and a life of plenty. Caroling is a characteristic feature of the feast, it expresses respect for the master of the house and his children, and sometimes it’s accompanied by a puppet theatre (vertep). The religious festival lasts three days and involves Christmas liturgies, caroling, v... Read more » |
On 4 January townsfolk will be able to observe the maximum phase of the partial solar eclipse.
At 9.26 on Kiev time in Dnipropetrovsk will be visible as the sun touches the lunar disc, and start a solar eclipse.
- Watching the eclipse in the planetarium will be completely free of charge, as his eyes through the filters, and with the help of optical instruments - told the Komsomolskaya Pravda staff of the planetarium. - The planetarium will buy filters that make the guys from astrokluba. Such filters would cost only 5.3 hryvnia, so what are waiting for everyone to watch the wonderful natural phenomenon.
The maximum partial eclipse phase (77.4%) occur in 10.51 on Kiev time. It was at this time, you can see the "very horny" The sun - a star turn in the new moon. The eclipse will end at 12.27.
Remember that a solar eclipse can be seen only through the filters, which, incidentally, you can make at home - a piece of glass soot or... Read more » |
Ivana Kupala Day
Ivana Kupala Day is the day of summer solstice celebrated in Russia and Ukraine on July, 7 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar, which is currently the 24-th of June in the Julian or Old Style calendar still used by many of the Orthodox Churches.
This is a pagan fertility rite, which has been accepted into the Orthodox Christian calendar. It is a traditional midsummer day in Western Europe with which some pre-Christian traditions have been associated. It is opposed to the winter solstice holiday, or Korochun.
The name of this holiday combines the words Ivan (the Slavic name of John the Baptist), and "Kupala", a word derived from the Slavic word for bathing, as it was the first day of the year when the church sanctioned bathing and swimming in rivers and ponds.
There is an ancient belief that the Eve of Ivan Kupala is the only time of the year when the ferns are blooming. Whoever ... Read more » |
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