{"id":1274243,"date":"2025-07-31T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/honey-poppy-seeds-and-herbs-what-to-bring-to-church-on-the-honey-savior\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:17:31","slug":"honey-poppy-seeds-and-herbs-what-to-bring-to-church-on-the-honey-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/honey-poppy-seeds-and-herbs-what-to-bring-to-church-on-the-honey-savior\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey, poppy seeds and herbs: what to bring to church on the Honey Savior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Honey Savior, also called the Feast of Makovei, is the first of the three Saviors. On this day, Orthodox believers throughout Ukraine will visit churches to bless the honey of the new harvest, fruits, and other gifts of nature. However, church rules allow not all products to be blessed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Honey Savior, Poppy and Savior on Water or Wet Savior are the names of one holiday. From the names it becomes clear that the main attributes of the holiday are honey, poppy and water. On this day, these products are consecrated in the church.<\/p>\n<p> Believers also bring a bouquet of fragrant herbs, a &#8220;poplar flower&#8221;, and fruit for consecration.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, you can also consecrate:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> fruits and berries of the new harvest;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> bread, lean pastries;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> fragrant herbs and flowers.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> At the same time, there are also some prohibitions on Macovius. You cannot bring holy things to church on Medovyi Spas:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> alcohol &#8211; both strong and wine or Cahors;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> fast food &#8211; meat products, dairy products, eggs, fish, lard, etc.;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> material values.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> You should also not put boiled, fried foods, canned goods, exotic and out-of-season fruits in the basket.<\/p>\n<p> It is also worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/koly-pochnetsia-uspenskyy-pist-v-ukraini-nova-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Assumption Lent begins<\/a> on the day of the Honey Savior, so all products brought to the temple must also be Lenten.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> . <\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1753959581325_cg7la810s\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1753959581335_om74xjw0k\" data-dest=\"placeholder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1753959581334_lq1tc5wcv\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1753959581335_gqiwwnj1i\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1753959581747_qiz69z31o\" data-google-query-id=\"CPfpudD45o4DFS2hgwcdSY8A7A\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey Savior, also called the Feast of Makovei, is the first of the three Saviors. On this day, Orthodox believers throughout Ukraine will visit churches to bless the honey of the new harvest, fruits, and other gifts of nature. However, church rules allow not all products to be blessed. Honey Savior, Poppy and Savior on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1273519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1274243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}