Many thanks to Patricia in the combox for sending this photo of the blessing of Easter baskets in Curitibia, Brazil where there is a large Polish community. As I suggested in my earlier post, I think that this is a Catholic Easter tradition that could be revived for others as well as the Polish who have kept it alive.
(In relation to the discussion in that post about the timing of this blessing - note that this one was on Holy Saturday.)
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Dear father,
this blessing of food on Easter is done in Croatia as well, for example in this village in eastern Croatia where the priest uses the last preconciliar ritual in Croatian from 1929, you can find the blessing on page 140 (267 in the book) (unfortunately there is a girl as an altar server but that plague is now almost unavoidable). The blessing is (unchanged) contained in other Roman Rituals in Croatian available online: 1893 (p. 273 or 260 in the book, use djvu file) and 1640 (p. 265 or 263 in the book). The last one (changing only the old graphy Kasic is using) is perfectly understandable to modern speakers of Croatian. From what I've found this blessing is still given on Holy Saturday in some places but nowdays it's usually on Easter morning.
In my parish in the city of Zagreb a general blessing of food is used unlike the one by one blessings (lamb, eggs, bread, new fruits, every other food) in the video linked above.
This blessing is of course also traditional in Bosna and Hercegovina and as far as I can tell in Slovenia as well.
My mother always took care that we should eat everything that has been blessed and we as children (but also now as adults) were careful to eat even the last breadcrumb of what has been blessed. If something is unsuitable for eating it has to be burnt.
We also had this blessing in the ukrainian greek-catholic chapel here in Maringa (about 300 km from our capital city Curitiba).
http://www.tradicaoemfoco.com/2011/04/pascoa-no-rito-de-s-joao-crisostomo.html
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