By Linda M. LINON

linonis@vindy.com

Youngstown

Rev. Peter M. Polando added one in particular the use of food aid Easter.

The rector of St. Matthias Church, 915 Cornell St., said he asked the members of something to distribute their baskets - bread, kolbasi, eggs - with new church members who are accepted at Easter. "It shows that we are welcoming them into the parish," he said.

The unwritten law for having blessed the food to be eaten at Easter is a fashionable and go run independently of the church's heritage of Slovakia.In the experiment, the church had three ceremonies sequester baskets rations honest deal on Saturday. Many other churches in the valley of the channel profit services too.

"In my m, we always use a fabric made by a consumed-aunt," said Bishop Polando cover for the basket. Rags Many actions have been embroidered by grandmothers, "he said, and are valuable for this festive use.

Polando Bishop said the church that embraces everything has a habit for the assets of Chow. He said that during Lent, the fact that before the Pure Week and Easter, is a fast and abstain."From the first stroke of Easter foods that would typically have not been eaten during Lent as kolbasi and cheese," he said....

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