Other items in year 2010.

EASTER

Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ’s resurrection. The Orthodox Church celebrates the Easter on the basis of the Julian calendar. The date is not fixed, but denotes the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of His resurrection in 30 A.D.

Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays. This is a day of eternal joy, the day when Christ, the Son of God, conquered the death. By the act of resurrection Jesus Christ proved his divine power and opened the gate of eternal life, joy and happiness that we can find in our faith. On Easter Sunday morning the church bells toll, and the people, together with their priest, go round the church. After the third round they stand in front of the church doors. The priest carries the cross, candle and the censer and chants the Easter hymn. The doors open and they enter the church where liturgy continues. When it ends, people greet each other with the words: “The Christ has resurrected”, and “Indeed he has”.

There are many customs connected with Easter Sunday, and certainly one of them that children like best, is colouring and offering of eggs. The first egg is coloured red and in many parts of our country it is called “The house keeper” and is kept for the whole year, until the next Easter. The eggs can be also coloured in onion leaves or various other colours, usually on Easter Thursday or Easter Friday. This custom dates back from the time of St. Maria Magdalena who gave a red egg to the emperor Tiberius, greeted him with the words: “The Christ has resurrected”, and started the sermon. The egg is the symbol of the grave and bearing of life.

On stamps and envelope are used motifs - Jov Vasilijević frescoes (1751), from the Monastery of Krušedol.

- stamp face value 22 RSD - “Crucifiction of Christ”;  

- stamp face value 46 RSD - “Resurrection of Christ”;

- envelope - “Taking down from the Cross”

Artistic realization of the stamps: Nadežda Skočajić, grad. graphic designer.