February 26 Eastern Rite Christians celebrate Forgiveness Sunday. This is the last day of Pancake Week, after which Great Lent begins.. On this day, it is customary to ask for forgiveness and forgive your offenders..

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What is customary to do on this day.

On a holiday, you need to free yourself from insults, forgive all offenders and ask for forgiveness yourself. This will allow you to enter Great Lent with a light heart..

The person asking for forgiveness should say \! "

If a person cannot forgive, you need to go to the temple for confession. You should also pray for the offender and light a candle for health.

Forgiveness Sunday is the last day you can eat eggs and dairy products.

On the last day of Maslenitsa, they also traditionally held festivities, went to visit and burned an effigy of winter.

What not to do on a holiday.

On this day, you can not do housework and hard physical labor, as well as sew, knit, embroider.

You can not swear, swear and wish others harm.

It is impossible not to forgive a person who asks for forgiveness.

It is forbidden to eat meat and drink alcohol, because Lent begins the next day.

You can’t leave the house in the evening and remember your sins.

Don't clean up the table after a meal.. What is left on it is better to cover with a white tablecloth so that happiness and prosperity come to the house.