Confess your sins and do only good deeds: 20 February – Day Luke

2018-02-19 18:54

Confess your sins and do only good deeds: 20 February – Day Luke
Folk omens on February 20 – Day Luke

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On 20 February the Orthodox Church celebrates the feast day of St Luke Alandscape.

In addition, usually this day falls on a Sunday of the prodigal son (second week preceding lent).

This date is considered to be special for the reason that in the temples at this time I remember one of the parables told by Jesus Christ to his disciples.

20 Feb people tried not to do bad deeds, to repent and do only good deeds. Analyze your own thoughts and actions, thinking about how to become better, to get rid of the shortcomings.

We can say that February 20 is the day a kind of spiritual purification, reports Rus.Media.

In people, the Day of St. Luke was a well known fact that the Housewives baked cakes with onion stuffing, and offered them to the poor. Also a few cakes on 20 February carried over the threshold to the dead relatives to feed. The day is considered a memorial. It was customary to go to Church to pray for the deceased, visit their graves.

Believed that onions can be cooked the most effective medicinal potions. This was especially true of infusions, decoctions, and other remedies based on Potentilla. The grass that people called “Moguntia” because it helped from a variety of diseases. Flowers Potentilla resemble a cross, but because it has been such a glory.

Folk omens on February 20

• If the sun turns red, the summer is cool
• The wind at noon on 20 February promises a good harvest of grain crops this year
• The thunder – omen to what will be a bad hay
• What a great charity 20 Feb give, the more you get
• Clouds are blue – the weather is warm
• Red sunset on 20 February, expect gusty winds and wet summer
• You can’t get married to Luke is memorial day. So, marriage on 20 February, the signs, bad sign
• Is it permissible for women to wear dress green and make purchases – this looks like trouble
• February to treat heart ailments
• If the person was born on February 20, he will be able to understand the language of plants – so the people said.