After two unusual years, the largest food dedication in the Carpathian Basin was held again in the traditional form on Easter Sunday in the center of Csíkszereda. Accordingly, thousands of believers once again waited in orderly lines on Szabadság Square for the consecration of the festive food.
On Easter Sunday, the largest traditional food dedication in the Carpathian Basin is usually held in Csíkszereda, for which thousands of people gather. However, in the past two years, the food consecration was organized in an unusual way due to the coronavirus epidemic: in 2020, the faithful could only participate in the ceremony via live broadcast, and last year, in an expanded location, the faithful lined up in the shape of a cross on Kossuth Lajos Street and Temesvári Avenue , with mandatory mask wearing and two-meter distance.
This year, however, the lifting of the state of emergency made it possible for the people of Csíkszereda to once again celebrate in the usual way. At eight o'clock in the morning, several thousand people lined up in orderly lines with their baskets awaiting consecration in Szabadság Square. The food consecration on Easter Sunday was celebrated by József Tamás, the retired bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gyulafehérvár.
He made food the proof of the resurrection of the resurrected Lord Jesus. And that is why these sanctified foods want to warn us about this. Jesus would like us to meet him in eating it, so let us eat the consecrated food in his memory with rejoicing and great gratitude
József Tamás emphasized.
After that, the clergy, accompanied by the ministers, walked through the rows of the faithful and blessed the food in the baskets. The food consecration ended with the singing of the Hungarian and Székely national anthems.
Source: szekelyhon.ro
Photo: Attila Pinti / Szekelyhon.ro
