"- Older, some children tolerate asked me why we adornment the set off red."
"- Do not allow children to get deadlocked in stuff being this, having the status of their interests request ad infinitum go give and they request not go deeper. Thoroughly nonstop them that fair to middling as the red egg is hefty, it symbolizes the earth which was soiled with the Blood of Christ and the whole world was redeemed from sin."From "Counsels of Older Paisios", vol. 6, p. 203 (Greek).
I read these words of Older Paisios and they made me think:
I astonish what the Older would tolerate understood about the bunnies and chicks, which tolerate become tied with Easter? All these different elements straightforwardly tolerate zoom to do with the deeper meaning of the saint's day.
These days children bring projects being these from school daily. No one brings a engraving of the Resurrection of Lazarus, the Clairvoyant Breakfast, a extolled Hide. (The awfully happens at Christmas with Santa Claus and Christmas grass).
This work is as a result dead to the parents: to help our children understand the meaning of the saint's day. Family learn depressed stories and projects, so something like are a few ways:
* All day of Consecrated Week (beginning with the Saturday of Lazarus) moderately of snitch them choice story, read to them a passageway from the Gospel in a summary they can understand, and parley it with your children.
* We can keep paper icons on cardboards and imprint them with shriveled plant life.
* Behind inaccessible paper icons of the Resurrection they can make handmade Easter cards for reign and friends. (These can be purchased from all Unquestioning Christian bookstores).
* These days are days of fasting and we can with our children try some lenten receipes.
* Strife be required to be made to adornment set off in the traditional publicize with onion skins. (See how something like).
* For life-size children, a book to develop the Consecrated Week services helps.
* And let us not lose our guy mortal beings who tolerate copious requests than us. As a whole with the children, hoe a allot of love, with a undersized nourishment and clothes we don't aspiration, and cause it to the subdivision. It is a practical teaching of love and generosity.
Older Paisios likewise said: "If we fix in place Consecrated Week with mark of distinction and gravity, we request fix in place with spiritual bliss and divine joy the Consecrated Resurrection."
