How to write, say, a sentence: "Monday comes after ... Sunday or Sunday"? It's about the day of the week. Is it correct to use a soft sign or the letter "and"? And here is another example: "After the resurrection (or Sunday?) Jesus ascended into heaven." What word more accurately conveys the phenomenon of recovery after death? When doubts arise as to which word to use in a certain context, it is worth remembering that they are not synonyms, although etymologically extremely close.
…Friday Saturday Sunday
In pagan everyday life, the last, seventh day of the week was mentioned for a week (which is preserved in the Slavic languages). Today it is called Sunday, and the week was called "week." The etymology of the other days of the weekly cycle is quite transparent: the day after the week (Sunday) was called Monday, the second after it - Tuesday, and so on. Wednesday was the middle of the seven-day cycle, because Sunday our great-great-grandfathers did not consider Sunday as the last, but the first day of the week, intended for rest and worship of the Creator. And here the history of this day is firmly connected with biblical information about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We will talk about this in more detail later, but for now, we note that the amazing phenomenon that gave the name to the day of the week has been preserved in its name almost entirely, changing only in a single letter at the end of the word base.
Resurrection day
In the Old Slavonic language, the word "armchair" meant "health, rebirth." In Latin, the creo token means "create, create." According to the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ was executed on Friday, and on the third day after death he was resurrected. His resurrection after a painful death conquered sin and granted eternal life to believers, and the day of the week on which it happened found its name.
Famous sunday
The well-known Forgiveness Sunday is now well known not only to Christians. On this last day before Lent and, accordingly, on the seventh Sunday before Easter, it is customary for everyone to ask for forgiveness for insults - conscious and unconscious, and forgive everyone without exception.
We will not leave without mention some events that are imprinted in the story with the ominous title “Bloody Sunday”. These are the days in which massacres were committed, most often during the suppression of popular uprisings or during other events, when crowds of thousands took to the streets and squares of cities. Such Sundays were in France, in England, in Ireland, in America, in Poland, in Turkey. There was such a day in Russia. Bloody Sunday was the armed dispersal of the peaceful demonstration of workers at the Putilov factory in St. Petersburg on January 9, 1905. People made a petition to the tsar and went to the Winter Palace to conduct peace negotiations with the autocrat, but were met with volleys of firearms. Hundreds of people died that day.
What are they, resurrected souls?
The meaning of the word “resurrection” determines the process of returning to life at a qualitatively new level. This is not just a renewal of the physical properties and functions of a previously deceased organism, but a kind of renewal, a spiritual breakthrough, which is caused by a serious, provoked from above test. In this sense, the word is often used in a metaphorical manner.
Is it possible to experience a moral rebirth, to become a new person in the spiritual sense as a result of resurrection or Sunday? In this context, it becomes obvious that these two words are completely different lexically.
The Resurrection novel
On the eve of the twentieth century, Leo Tolstoy created his last novel, which became a literary event in the homeland and almost immediately - beyond. The plot is based on the piercing story of commoner Katya Maslova, who first seduced and abandoned, and then tried to save Prince Dmitry Nekhlyudov. The novel has everything: a dramatic line of deceived hopes and debunked illusions, and the frightening injustice of court decisions, and ruthless detailed introspection, and the search for a way out of a dark spiritual impasse. As the plot develops, each of the heroes undergoes his own spiritual resurrection, comprehending the truth in trials. In the novel, Tolstoy clearly stated that interpretation of the gospel idea of Christ's love, because of which religion condemned him.
Musical group
In the late seventies of the last century in the Soviet Union under this significant name an interesting musical group arose. The leader of “Resurrection” (or “Sunday”, as the name of the ensemble is sometimes spelled incorrectly) was the composer, guitarist, vocalist Alexei Romanov. Over its long history, the team more than once disintegrated, was prosecuted, changed its composition and offered the listener a consistently high-quality product. Having risen, like a Phoenix from the ashes, at the beginning of the new century the ensemble completely justified its own name, the subtext of which is clearly read in the texts of the group - the renewal of the inner world of each person takes place only in a stubborn search for the meaning of life and the intense efforts of the soul.