Feast of Jordan Celebrated at Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
Jan 23, 2018 | Community, Featured
NP-UN, Western Bureau.
Close to 300 people came out for the Feast of Jordan celebration at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village (UCHV), January 19.
This included 200 students from St. Martin’s Ukrainian Bilingual School in Edmonton as well as close to 100 members of the general public.
The Feast of Jordan, which celebrates the Baptism of Jesus Christ, on the traditional Ukrainian Julian calendar, is an annual at this historic site, located 50 kilometres east of Edmonton, which recreates the life of the early Ukrainian pioneers to Alberta.
School field trips for Jordan are organized as part of the UCHV’s education program.
The celebrations began with Church services at the three churches at the Ukrainian Village – St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox and St. Nicholas Russo-Orthodox, followed by a water blessing ceremony at the ice cross.
Another ceremony held that day was that of jumping over the burning didukh, or sheaf of grain.
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