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Before Christmas, members of the Maltese charity organisation invited old lonely people to the community centre to have a festive dinner. The volunteers raised a certain amount of money to buy food and medicine for the elders.

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Easter traditions in Lithuania
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5. Easter meals
5. Easter meals
Easter table is traditionally abundant. Its main element are decorated eggs. An egg is reckoned as the symbol of nature's revival and beginning of  any form of life.
4. Easter
4. Easter
Christian festival celebrates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament on the third day of his burial after the crucifiction by the Romans  30 AD. 
In 2018 Easter is on April 1st. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus preceded by Great Lent, a forty-day period of fasting and  prayer.
3. Easter Vigil
3. Easter Vigil
It starts after sundown on Holy Saturday. Christians anticipate by night  the Resurrection.  Members of Jieznas church community have the Easter Vigil in the church crypt by the symbolical tomb.
2. The Holy Week
2. The Holy Week
In Christianity, it is the week just before Easter. In 2018, in Lithuania the Holy week is on March 26-31.

Holy Triduum is observed in Lithuania:
Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles;
Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and his subsequent death;
Holy Saturday is the day between the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection.  Jesus was hurriedly buried in a cave tomb after his crucifixion, with the intent to finish proper embalming and burial ceremonies on Sunday, after the Sabbath had ended.

1. In Jieznas Church
1. In Jieznas Church
We had a lesson in the church where the priest of Jieznas parish Rolandas kindly and clearly explained us the essence of the Holy week.

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Easter table is traditionally abundant. Its main element are decorated eggs. An egg is reckoned as the symbol of nature's revival and beginning of any form of life.

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Christian festival celebrates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament on the third day of his burial after the crucifiction by the Romans  30 AD.
In 2018 Easter is on April 1st. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus preceded by Great Lent, a forty-day period of fasting and  prayer.

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It starts after sundown on Holy Saturday. Christians anticipate by night the Resurrection. Members of Jieznas church community have the Easter Vigil in the church crypt by the symbolical tomb.

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In Christianity, it is the week just before Easter. In 2018, in Lithuania the Holy week is on March 26-31.

Holy Triduum is observed in Lithuania:
Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles;
Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and his subsequent death;
Holy Saturday is the day between the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection.  Jesus was hurriedly buried in a cave tomb after his crucifixion, with the intent to finish proper embalming and burial ceremonies on Sunday, after the Sabbath had ended.

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We had a lesson in the church where the priest of Jieznas parish Rolandas kindly and clearly explained us the essence of the Holy week.