{"id":3193,"date":"2018-02-28T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:14:13","slug":"lent-holy-holy-week-poland-wielki-post-big-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/cuaresma-semana-santa-polonia-wielki-post-gran-ayuno\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Wielki post\", the great fast: Lent and Easter in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Poland is one of the European countries where Catholics live Lent and Holy Week with the greatest intensity. Christian practices such as abstinence are so deeply rooted that even fast food multinationals have a special meatless menu on Fridays.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">TEXT -&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i><\/i><b><i>Ignacio Soler, <\/i><\/b><i>Warsaw<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s2\">Krzysztof Zanussi's film, <i>Da un paese lontano<\/i>The 1981 film begins by recounting the life of St. John Paul II with the scene of the passion play at the sanctuary of the Shrine of St. John Paul II. <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalwaria_Zebrzydowska\">Kalwaria Zebrzydowska<\/a>near Wadowice. The little Karol, according to the film, is astonished to see in the bar who has represented Christ drinking beer after finishing everything. The truth is that the Polish Pope was a man fascinated by the Cross, which is so much seen in Poland. For Wojty\u0142a the Cross is Christ, and the Way of the Cross - the way of every Christian - a devotion he never stopped practicing every Friday of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/resources-2\/40-things-to-live-lent\/\">Lent <\/a>it is said in Polish <i>wielki post<\/i>which means \"<i>the great fast\".<\/i> If during the time of Lent a Christian does not do a little penance, the kind you notice, the kind you feel, you do not know when you will do it. In Poland, abstinence every Friday of the year is so popular that even non-believers live it. For example, the famous <i>McDonald's<\/i> offers a special menu on Fridays with meat-free products: instead of hamburger, there is the <i>filet-o-fish<\/i> (fish fillet). It is also necessary to mention the tradition of the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the so called \"the day before Ash Wednesday\".<i>Thursday<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>buttery\"<\/i>. The tradition on that day is to eat <i>p\u0105czek<\/i>a variety of the donut, a specialty of Polish pastries. 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