Holy Week before Easter in 2025: signs by day
Holy Week begins on Monday, April 13, and ends with Easter. Each of her days has its own meaning. In Russia, Holy Week was also associated with various omens. Read about how our ancestors saw her in the Izvestia article.
Great Monday, April 14th, 2025
On Holy Monday, it is customary to clean the house and throw away the trash, which, according to popular opinion, helps to attract all the benefits.
It is considered a bad omen to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ with dirty windows. They should be washed on the first day of the week.
Sunny weather leads to a good and early harvest.
Great Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
On Holy Tuesday, April 15, 2025, housewives begin to buy and prepare food for the Easter table.
You should definitely wash and iron the tablecloth perfectly, because, according to legend, otherwise bad news will come to the house.
Rain was considered a good sign — the peasants believed it was accompanied by baskets full of mushrooms.
Great Wednesday, April 16, 2025
On the Great Wednesday before Easter, April 16, 2025, women choose eggs — the people believe that they will remain fresh until the "festive holiday."
The rain, villagers claimed, was bad for the grain harvest, but generous for the raspberry bushes.
Great (Pure) Thursday, April 17th, 2025
On Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2025, all the signs revolved around cleanliness.
Our grandparents believed that the cleaner the house was cleaned on Holy Thursday, the happier life would be in it.
Perhaps the most famous belief is to wake up before dawn and take a good bath. This ritual, according to the people, preserves health, youth and, most importantly, can purify not only the body, but also the soul.
The main sign of the day is associated with cakes, because it is customary to start baking them on Maundy Thursday. If the first one was successful — beautiful and ruddy — you should wait for luck. But it is better not to allow burning — housewives in Russia saw this as a harbinger of trouble.
Good Friday, April 18, 2025
On Good Friday, April 18, 2025, entertainment events attracted grief and people were confident.
In Russia, it was believed that whatever the weather would be on Good Friday, it would be like this until the very end of spring.
Holy Saturday, April 19th, 2025
On Holy Saturday, April 19, it was considered a bad omen to do anything unrelated to preparations for Easter. People are waiting for news about the Holy Fire.
The dry weather was for a dry summer, the precipitation was for a rainy one.
On May 5, 2024, the long-awaited Orthodox Easter will come, read about the customs and traditions of the holiday in our publication.
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