* eggs (jajka<\/strong>) – symbolize life and Christ’s resurrection,<\/p>\n * bread (chleb<\/strong>) – symbolic of Jesus,<\/p>\n * lamb (baranek<\/strong>, also means jagni\u0119cina<\/strong>)\u00a0– represents Christ,<\/p>\n * salt (s\u00f3l<\/strong>) – represents purification,<\/p>\n * horseradish (chrzan<\/strong>) – symbolic of the bitter sacrifice of Christ,<\/p>\n * ham (szynka<\/strong>) – symbolic of great joy and abundance.<\/p>\n Where I grew up, we used to bring baskets to my grandparents house (our closest neighbors would do the same thing) and that was where priest would stop by to bless the food. I think the reason for that was that we lived pretty far away from the church.<\/p>\n The food blessed in the church (or at home) remains untouched until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n On Easter morning (Sunday), a special Resurrection Mass is celebrated in every church in Poland. At this Mass, a procession of priests, altar boys and the people circles the church three times while the church bells peal and the organ is played for the first time since they had been silenced on Good Friday. Following the Mass, people return home to eat the food blessed the day before.<\/p>\n The Easter table is covered with a white tablecloth. The white tablecloth is indicative of the white swaddling cloth with which Our Lord was wrapped when he was placed in the Holy Sepulcher. On the middle of the table in most homes people will put colored eggs, cold meats, coils of sausages, ham, yeast cakes, pound cakes, poppy-seed cakes, and a lamb made of sugar. Polish Easter Soup called\u00a0\u017burek\u00a0<\/strong>or Bia\u0142y\u00a0Barszcz<\/strong> is often served at the Easter meal, garnished with the hard-boiled eggs and sausage. There is also tradition to share blessed eggs with the members of the family and wish each other good health, happiness for the rest of the year. In my house except of trying eggs, each one of us had to try a little piece of horseradish root.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/04\/Unknown-5.jpeg\")
<\/a>\u015awi\u0119conka<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions. On Holly Saturday people take to churches decorated baskets containing a sampling of traditional food to be blessed: hard-boiled shelled eggs, ham, sausage, salt, horseradish, fruits, bread and cake. Prominently displayed among these is the Easter lamb, usually molded from butter or sugar and colorful pisanki. The food have a symbolic meaning, for example:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>During this time the Polish homes are with its spirit of joy and good-will at a laden Easter Table, with its sugar Lamb (cukrowy baranek<\/strong>) and its blessed multi-colored eggs.<\/p>\n