Average: What advice does it have? What should be done?
Average: What advice does it have
According to Malakhia arch. Ormanyan’s name is given to the day that divides the Great Pass, which has no festive significance.
Average is the fourth Wednesday or 24th day of Lent (March 6).
Starting from midday, during the peaceful liturgy, the hymns of Steg begin to be sung – Havur proper.
On that day, according to folk tradition, Armenian grandmothers bake a bagarj, in which they put a coin.
Whoever gets the dram will have success that year.
Like a New Year’s bread, the middle was supposed to ensure the well-being of the hearth, family members, livestock, land and the future success of the main economic activities. It reminds us that Lent has reached its halfway point.
In the middle, Great Lent is not interrupted, the keepers continue to fast. On that day, we reflect that there are twenty-four days left before the miraculous Resurrection of Jesus, Holy Easter, and that there are still days of mourning, self-examination, remorse and repentance.
The day of midday was celebrated in different ways in Armenian states and provinces, about which beautiful traditions have been preserved.
In Van, for example, young people go to their fields to “welcome” and announce the spring with the following words: “May he who came to give light to the world give you fullness.”
Farmers in Musaler must first visit their fields to check the condition of sprouted crops. Therefore, it is worth noting that the holiday is directly related to the preparations for spring planting. Festive meals testify to that.
On average, they didn’t cook dal in those families where there were new deaths. In Mush and Taron, friendly women prepared haregil-baharj and served it to the bereaved relatives in the evening of Midalk.
