Mother's Hands festival held in central Moldova town

Chisinau, 13 May /MOLDPRES/ - Mother’s Hands is the title of a festival in the context of the Easter holidays, held in the central Nisporeni town on 12 May. The event was at its 14th issue and it also had a charity message this year.     

It has already become a tradition that, each year, a festival of Easter songs, Christ has Risen and the Mother’s Hands exhibition are held on the Sunday of Myrrophores, with the blessing of the Bishopric of Ungheni and Nisporeni.    

Handicraftsmen of Moldova, as well as from Romania and Ukraine brought together in this settlement to give glory to two important Christian holidays – the Resurrection of the Lord and the Sunday of the Myrrophores. Visitors enjoyed a musical show, an exhibition with sale of workmanship and native culinary specialties. The money from the sales is to reach two children from Nisporeni, aged 5 and 7 years, respectively, hit by serious diseases.     

”Our request was for people to be present in an as large number as possible, in order to turn to good account the region’s treasure, to see our nice Christian traditions, by especially through our presence, to bring contribution and give a small hope to these two families which are put to serious test,” a priest of the Episcopal Cathedral from Ungheni, Stefan Rambu, said.  

„The goal of this festival is to turn to good account the treasure of the popular craftsmanship with religious character, to familiarize the young generations with the Easter songs and traditions and promote Christian traditions and customs dealing with the Easter holidays, Christian rituals and charity, as the charity is one of the pillars of the Orthodox spirituality. Those present at this festival, either through songs, or through exhibition, or through donations, showed the traditions from the zones of the settlements they came from,” sources of the Bishopric of Ungheni and Nisporeni told MOLDPRES.    

For more years, festivals, exhibitions and contests on Easter subjects have become traditional in more districts of Moldova.