{"id":186328,"date":"2026-04-05T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:50:27","slug":"bishop-of-brooklyn-continues-tradition-of-blessing-easter-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186328\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Brooklyn continues tradition of blessing Easter baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREENPOINT \u2014 THE BELOVED TRADITION OF BLESSING EASTER BASKETS takes place on Holy Saturday, April 4, at noon with Our Lady of Consolation Church hosting, a press release from the Diocese announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

Bishop Robert Brennan of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes Queens, will join Father Wieslaw Strzadala and parishioners at Our Lady of Consolation for a prayer service and blessing of Easter baskets. As part of the custom, which dates back to the 15th century and which is celebrated in the borough\u2019s Slavic Catholic neighborhoods, the faithful bring baskets of Easter food, including bread, eggs, ham and sweets, to be blessed, explains a 2024 article on the Diocese of Brooklyn\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The faithful also ornately decorate the baskets, also called \u015awi\u0119conka. Many of the foods, like eggs and bread, symbolize the new life of the Resurrection of Jesus, which Easter celebrates.<\/p>\n

\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\t
\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"New
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice to charge suspect in fatal shooting of 7-month-old in Brooklyn \u2014 manhunt continues for second man<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 2 |
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrooklyn Eagle Staff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFormer NYPD officer indicted on vehicular manslaughter in fatal 2023 crash<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 2 |
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrooklyn Eagle Staff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"An
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMan, 40, fatally shot near East New York playground<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 2 |
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrooklyn Eagle Staff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENPOINT \u2014 THE BELOVED TRADITION OF BLESSING EASTER BASKETS takes place on Holy Saturday, April 4, at noon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,2575,9,24,63,7675],"class_list":{"0":"post-186328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-easter","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-religion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}