Advent- time before Christmas  Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday.

Advent wreath

Christmas Eve- WIGILIA BOŻEGO NARODZENIA  Christmas in Poland is once of the most important, and popular days in whole year. People are kind, and they spend time with their families. Children get dressed the Christmas three and wait for the presents. That day is at 24th of December. The tradition tells that there should be twelve dishes on the table. People start eating when the first star is on the sky. In the middle of the night, so at there is a special event. We go to the church and sing carols. Carols are the songs about Jesus and his born. This time is once of the happiest event in the year.

Christmas

New Year's Eve- Sylwester  New Year’s Eve is an annual celebration held worldwide on the 31st of December. It marks the end of the year and the transition to the new one. People all around the world celebrate the occasion and it is a very joyful moment.  In most countries on New Year’s Eve people traditionally party with their friends. In Poland people may attend balls in restaurants for which they need to dress in smart clothes. They need to pay for the entrance and reservations need to be made in advance as the parties are very popular. Other people prefer 'prywatki' or small parties organized in apartments or houses only for groups of close friends.

New Year’s Eve

Ash Wednesday- Środa Popielcowa  Ash Wednesday, in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable feast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10. According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke; Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting.

Ash Wednesday

LENT- Wielki Post  Lent is a solemn observance in the liturgical year of many Christian denominations, lasting for a period of approximately six weeks leading up to Easter. In most Western denominations Lent is taken to run from Ash Wednesday to Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) or to Easter.  The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events of the Passion of Christ on Good Friday, which then culminates in the celebration on Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Lent

Pal Sunday- Niedziela Palmowa  Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels.  In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday is marked by the distribution of palm leaves (often tied into crosses) to the assembled worshipers

Palm Sunday

HOLY WEEK- Wielki Tydzień  Holy Week Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. It does not include Easter Sunday. In Eastern Orthodox tradition, Holy Week starts on Lazarus Saturday, the day before Palm Sunday. (Easter Sunday, for context, is the first day of the new season of the Great Fifty Days, or Eastertide, there being fifty days from Easter Sunday through Pentecost Sunday.) It is followed by Easter Week.

EASTER- Wielkanoc  Easter is the oldest and most important Christian holiday. These are the holy cross commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Weeks preceding it, which is the time for remembering the most important events of the Christian faith is called Holy Week. Easter is a moveable feast. May fall out between March 22 and April 25.

Easter

Easter Monday Poniedziałek Wielkanocny  Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday.  Śmigus-Dyngus (Polish Dyngus or lany poniedziałek, meaning Wet Monday) is the name for Easter Monday in Poland and the diaspora. In Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic traditionally, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and striking them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches. Another related custom, unique to Poland, is that of sprinkling bowls (garce) of ashes on people (starts men on women) or houses, celebrated a few weeks earlier at the "półpoście." This custom is almost forgotten, but still practices in the area around the borders of Mazuria and Masovia.

Easter Monday

All Saints' Day Wszystkich Świętych Is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. All Saints' Day is the second day of Hallowmas,and begins at sundown on the 31st of October (celebrated as Halloween) and finishes at sundown on the 1st of November. It is the day before All Souls' Day.

All Saints' Day

Andrzejki St. Andrew's Eve: In Poland, the holiday is celebrated on the night of the 29th through 30th of November. Traditionally, the holiday was only observed by young single girls, though today both young men and women join the party to see their futures. Some women put pieces of paper (on which they have written potential husbands) under the pillow and first thing in the morning they take one out, which allegedly reveals their future husband. In Poland, the holiday is celebrated on the night of the 29th through 30th of November. Traditionally, the holiday was only observed by young single girls, though today both young men and women join the party to see their futures. Some women put pieces of paper (on which they have written potential husbands) under the pillow and first thing in the morning they take one out, which allegedly reveals their future husband.

St. Andrew's Eve

Prima Aprilis April Fools' Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.

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