The big Saturday or the connection between death and resurrection. The day you can get rid of pain pain for the rest of the year
The big Saturday is a day full of religious meanings, but also superstitions. It makes the indispensable connection between the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Itself is celebrated the defeat of death by the Savior. From a magical point of view, the big Saturday is a day of reconciliation.
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Sabbath Mare is the last day of the Passion Week or the Great Week. Many times assimilated with the Day of Resurrection, the Great Sabbath has wide theological meanings for Orthodox Christianity. In addition, for Romanians in rural areas this day was also loaded with many superstitions and magic-religious moments.
The day that makes the connection between death and resurrection
From a religious point of view, the Great Sabbath has overwhelming importance ending the Passover Week. This day makes the connection between death and resurrection. These are the 24 hours that our Savior Jesus Christ spends in the grave. It is the greatest mystery of Christianity that has not been penetrated by the human mind until today. It is said that Jesus stepped into hell and gave the heavy fight with death. Being God and man at the same time, hell failed to have power over him. On Saturday night, Jesus comes out victorious on hell and death and resurrection takes place. This most important moment of Christianity, the essence of Christian religion, victory over eternal death and life. Because hell and death were not only defeated for Jesus, personally, but also for the whole of humanity from that moment. That is why, Saturday is a day of struggle against death and hell, the day the chance of man was decided.
The decisive day of the housewives
In addition to this theological and spiritual importance, the big Saturday is the day when the housewives must finish all the food for the first Easter day. You kiss until the resurrection service begins, when they must already be prepared to go to church. Given that the Easter pieces must be as fresh as possible, the housewives grab at night. Neither households have peace. At 5.00 in the morning the lamb is sacrificed, cut and given as soon as possible to prepare it. It usually works in the “team” three to four women. That is, the owner of the house with the very close nurile, daughters or relatives. The lamb is well spiced, sprinkled with wine, given to the clay oven, in the roller. At the same time, I go to all the other dishes, lamb -shaped cozonacs, stretch, drob.
Even Sărmăluțe and Cighiri, through Moldova. We do not exclude the pies and the comforting lamb soup. After noon, everything has to be ready. Women are cleansed, they go, they wear new clothes and go to the church for the Resurrection service. Obviously, the basket with pieces for the holy is ready. There is a long night, full of religious meanings, the moment people feel they receive divine grace. Only in the morning, after the consecration of the basket, the households return home for the first Easter day.
The day the heavens open
In the people, especially in the rural areas, the theological importance of the Great Sample is mixed with magical-religious rituals of pagan times. Some of these were prohibitions and superstitions about what someone could do if they violate these magical customs. For example, you do not have to go to the Resurrection service with old and dark clothes. You have to dress only with new, open clothes. The explanation is the completion of the mourning period, from the Passover Week and the celebration of the Savior's Resurrection.
At the same time, on Saturday, it is not washed and not sewn. You can only cook and clean the dishes. On the big Saturday you are not allowed to lazy, to sleep. There was the belief that the Great Sabbath opens the heavens and the magic has even greater power. This is why if you want to fulfill all your wishes, you don't have to sleep that night. In some areas of Transylvania at night it is spent with useful flames. They secretly go, Saturday night, to adorn with fir branches the gates of the houses where unmarried girls live. Girls who fall on the windows find out on the flame that comes and in this way show their sympathy or even love. The sturdy was rewarded properly on the first day of Easter, with pieces, with money, or who knows, with a kiss.
The pain cure for the big Saturdays
From the same category of magic-religious rituals of Sâmbăta Mare are also those that help to enhance the health of the whole family. For this purpose, the parents go out with the remains after cutting the lamb but also with the bones and buries them at the root of a healthy apple or hair. This ritual ensures the health of the whole family, throughout the year. Also for health, during the resurrection service, when the bells are drawn, it is good to have a piece of iron between the teeth, just to not hurt the jaws all year. In addition, the believers must not be careful not to get on the way to the church. If, however, the misfortune happens, the inattentive risks having a difficult year, full of trials. Last but not least, the Great Saturday means the review with the ancestors and dead relatives. A goodbye in the spiritual plane, because with the opening of the heavens, the dead return home within the family. The big Saturday is also the day of reconciliation, when you did not have to argue with anyone to enter the church clean.
