Shrovetide or Cheese Week is a holiday that has come down to us from time immemorial, when our ancestors were still pagans and spent the winter seeing spring. The Orthodox Church accepted it, and now we celebrate this holiday on the eve of Great Lent. For a whole week we go to visit, walk and have fun, accepting congratulations on Maslenitsa and congratulating others. Mandatory attribute of the festive table are pancakes. They are served with sour cream, butter, honey, caviar. Only you should refuse meat, and you can eat the rest as much as you like.
During Maslenitsa, mass festivities are organized where people joke, dance, sing songs and set up a scarecrow of winter on the main square of a city or village. This custom came to us from our pagan ancestors. It is believed that those who do not have fun during Pancake Week will be sad for a whole year. So let's have fun, and give congratulations on Shrovetide to our friends, relatives and just strangers!
During the festivities you can ride a roller coaster, visit fairs and booths, play games. Pancake week is cold and frosty, so the fun must be mobile. Play the game (our ancestors loved to do this). By the way, we also played it more than once, we just called it “hide and seek” or “catch up”. You can change into the funniest costumes (baba yaga, snowman, goblin). Read poems in which congratulations on Shrovetide are comic and funny. For instance:
Congratulations to Maslenitsa
And I offer you pancakes.
Come visit us
And carry one hundred grams!
Or:
We wish for a week,
So you all eat pancakes
And they laughed, had fun,
The main thing is not to get drunk.
You can come up with congratulations on Shrovetide yourself or find them on the Internet, try to adhere to the basic rule: more humor and no obscenities or attacks.
On Wednesday at Shrovetide week, the son-in-law must visit his mother-in-law. Hence the expression “to mother-in-law for pancakes”. Mother-in-law gives them to her beloved son-in-law in the heat of the heat, and he gives a gift. Choosing a present mother-in-law depends on your relationship with her, but even if they are far from ideal, try to fix them on that day. Come up with funny greetings on Shrovetide and your mother-in-law will appreciate them. We can offer you this option:
My dear mother-in-law, where are the pancakes here for me?
Let's sit down, eat and talk about life.
I thank you, for your wife - your daughter
And I want to tell you - you are like a second mother to me.
Be healthy, have fun
And she’s always sweet with me.
Congratulations to Shrovetide, I wish you many joys
And I want my daughter to be like you!
We are sure that you will succeed much better and more fun.
Congratulations on Shrovetide may be the most unusual. You can put greetings with caviar on pancakes, make inscriptions with sour cream or jam. It will be very beautiful and healthy, and your Pancake week table will fully correspond to this fun holiday. You can come up with funny greetings on Shrovetide in the form of some original trinkets or crafts. You can find such funny little things in any gift shop. And please, do not forget to accompany your gifts with cheerful inscriptions. For instance:
For my beloved mother-in-law, I would not regret a horse,
But for now I give the horseshoe to be healthy!
All congratulations on Shrovetide (comic, witty and funny) will help you to have fun this week and go to Forgiveness Sunday, ask for forgiveness from your friends and relatives.
On Sunday, after the pagan tradition, a scarecrow of winter is burned, spring comes, and the Orthodox enter Great Lent. The events of the previous week, as a rule, leave pleasant memories, and observance of the Fast appears as a natural event in the life of people preaching Christianity.