Χριστός Ανέστη! Αληθώς ανεστη! Христос воскрес! воістину воскрес! Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
One of my favorite parts of Easter (or “Pascha,” to use the Byzantine term) growing up was the py.
Χριστός Ανέστη! Αληθώς ανεστη! Христос воскрес! воістину воскрес! Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
One of my favorite parts of Easter (or “Pascha,” to use the Byzantine term) growing up was the pysanky eggs. My family attended a Ruthenian rite Byzantine Catholic Church, a rite coming out of Ukraine, and the elaborately decorated eggs were an essential part of Easter decor. When I was little, a Ukrainian lady who had survived Nazi persecution and eventually emigrated to America used to make most of the pysanky eggs at the church. She tried to teach me how to make them, but I’m afraid I didn’t successfully make one until I was much older; even then it looked nothing like hers, which were each an intricate masterpiece.
Ukraine isn’t the only country with such eggs. Poland also has a tradition of similarly decorated Easter eggs, called pisanki. Decorated Easter eggs in Russia led to the creation of the famous jeweled Fabergé eggs. But because I went to a Ukrainian church, I am most familiar with pysanky.
