What to do with the remaining shells of eggs blessed for Easter? I heard the opinion that you can’t throw it away, but you need to burn it. Is it so? Eggs are blessed on Easter as a food product for consumption. If for someone the shell of consecrated eggs is a shrine, then let such a person eat the eggs along with the shell))) Members of the true Church of Christ are not ritualists. They do not use the eggshells of even consecrated eggs as a measure of their piety and pleasing God. Since people from structures such as the apostate “MP”, corrupted by the false “Orthodox” faith, do not have true piety, they begin (like the ancient apostate Jews) to attach great and important importance to various petty ritual institutions and the traditions of their “elders” invented by unspiritual people. Thus, they reduce their “pleasing to God” to the grams and millimeters they carefully measure, to their reverent attitude toward the shells of consecrated eggs, and so on. But on Easter, not only eggs are blessed, but also meat. But no one asks what to do with the bones left over from a meat dish eaten. Let me note that food products and dishes prepared from them are (should be) always sanctified! Food is sanctified by reading the prayer before eating it ("Our Father" or "The eyes of all trust in Thee, Lord..."), blessing it with the sign of the cross by a bishop, priest or layman, and sprinkling it with consecrated water. If people eat food without the presence of clergy, then the eldest of the laity blesses it with the usual lay sign of the cross. Laymen are also allowed to consecrate their food by sprinkling it with consecrated water. In this case, boiled eggs, fish with bones, meat with bones, fruits and vegetables with stones, peels and other similar dishes leave behind solid inedible residues (bones, peels, etc.). It happens that edible parts are left uneaten and spoil. In this case, ritual believers are faced with the question not only about the shells of Easter eggs, but also about similar daily food leftovers from consecrated dishes and food products in general. But the laity are supposed to sanctify the things they use. In this case, due to wear and tear or damage and breakage of consecrated things, deceived ritual believers have a question about these things. Most of all, such charmers, who only have the appearance of piety, and not the power of it, will be annoyed by the use of soap, shampoos, toothpastes and elixirs, toothpicks, toilet paper and other toiletries and toiletry items in daily use. With their approach, they must either revere used toilet paper and soap suds, carefully collecting all their remains for the sake of former consecration, or not consecrate them at all and use them with everything bad and harmful on them, which only removes consecration. We, true Christians, know that the Church in its decrees prescribes, for example, to bless even the most stingy places with baptismal water (i.e. baths, bathrooms, toilets, outhouses), because it is in these places that demons often attack people. Real material shrines that have become unusable or unsightly are subject to burning: icons, books of Holy Scripture, antimensions, airs, covers, plates used for communion, images of the cross, broken crosses, etc. There is another “nearby” problem - stickers on Easter eggs with images of Christ and the Mother of God. Throwing away such shells is actually ungodly. It is best not to use such stickers. Answer from Father Oleg Molenko: Church of St. John the Evangelist

Can shells from blessed eggs be thrown away or not? Many people are interested in the question of whether such shells from eggs blessed in church can be thrown away. Usually after Easter, those who consecrate eggs in church wonder where to put the Easter shells from eggs, whether they can be thrown away or This is a shrine that needs to be treated with care. Is it necessary to collect and store such Easter shells?

A priest answered this question on TV about Easter shells. He said that sprinkling any products (Easter cakes, eggs, Easter, apples) on Easter and other holidays does not turn these products into a special shrine. The container in which the food was placed and on which splashes of holy water fell does not become a shrine.
Therefore, treat Easter egg shells like packaging. But if in doubt, take the shells and Easter cake crumbs to the forest or bury them in your garden plot.
But it’s better not to put stickers on Easter eggs with images of Christ and the Mother of God. But if someone gives you such an Easter egg, then it’s not pious to throw them away. It’s better to take them to church and they will burn them there. If you burn them yourself, then burn them and bury the ashes.

Happy upcoming Sunday of Christ to all.

There is no need to worry too much about simply painted shells. Dispose of as usual. This is not a shrine, but only something consecrated, blessed by the church.

But the images of Saints painted on the eggs make you think. You should not buy such eggs or make them yourself. It is not right when the faces of the Saints begin to be pasted onto everything.

I don’t know how you can break such an egg with a face...

If I were given one of these, I would give the eggs to a beggar.

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The shell of an egg in general, not just a blessed one, should not be thrown away.

If you have friends who keep poultry, they will be happy to take it from you. The shells are added to the feed of poultry that will lay eggs, especially chickens. This additive allows eggs to be laid stronger and primarily due to the increase in calcium in the body of laying hens. Especially in spring, you can often see chickens laying eggs without shells (yolk in a thin film). This happens because during the winter period there is a sharp lack of substances necessary for the formation of a hard shell. There are plenty of these substances in the shell.

Where to put Easter egg shells?

I read on the Internet that you really shouldn’t throw it away; according to legend, they say that when I eat after Easter, these are the shells and crumbs from the Easter cake and chicken bones that need to be buried in the garden for a good harvest.

It is written that our ancestors used to do this in order to reap a good harvest at the end of the year. You can type in the search engine the customs of your ancestors for Easter.

You can safely throw away the shells of blessed Easter eggs! This is not a shrine. By sprinkling Easter cakes and eggs on Easter, the church blesses us with new food, due to the fact that Lent has ended. Boiled eggs do not become saints from this sprinkling)).
Another thing is the candle stubs from the candles that were in the temple.

Video-Answer prot. Dimitry Smirnov's answer to this question video yandex ru # (Watch from 7 minutes).
Broadcast Russian Hour (TK Spas 2010-10-24)

Easter egg shells can be useful for making calcium water.

Remove the eggshell from the inner film, then chop it and fill it with water.
To prepare calcium water, the source water should not be hard, that is, it should not contain a large amount of carbonates. We are talking more about calcium and magnesium carbonates, which cause the so-called temporary hardness of water. When boiled, carbonates decompose with precipitation.
It is better to use well-purified water with low calcium and magnesium content -

Calcium from the shell very quickly passes into the water, enriching it. The shell of 1 egg is enough for 1 liter of water.

Where to put the shells from Easter eggs, if the egg itself, especially consecrated in the temple, is associated among believers with the sacrifice that the Savior made on the cross for all humanity. The clergy explained that the main contradiction in this issue among believers arises only because not everyone understands the difference between consecrating and blessing food. Even if the question is related to where to put the shells from blessed Easter eggs.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov says that You can throw away eggshells, but the cinders from the candles that burned in the temple - they need to be burned to the end. “Believers often say - blessed Easter cakes, blessed eggs. But this, of course, is not sanctification. This is simply a blessing from the church for food,” explains the archpriest.

According to him, it is fundamentally wrong to say that a colored chicken egg is a shrine. “The Church sprinkles and thereby blesses new food due to the fact that Lent has ended. And the candle is what is involved in prayer. Therefore, what is brought from the church is supposed to be burned afterwards,” says Dmitry Smirnov and reminds that, in principle, it is more correct to bless Easter cakes and eggs in the courtyard of the temple and this food is not even supposed to be brought into the temple, and, moreover, other products.

Upon returning from the temple early in the morning on Easter Sunday, you will taste the blessed Easter cake and eat an egg. Simple actions like eating food that you repeat every day take on special meaning at Easter. By eating such food, you are reminded of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

But at the same time, one should not extol the very attributes of the holiday higher than faith in the Savior and heartfelt gratitude for his feat. Keeping this in mind will help you understand what to do with Easter egg shells. Is it possible to throw away Easter egg shells? Yes, just carefully fold it into a crumpled piece of paper and throw it in a bucket.

In turn, Father Oleg Molenko explains that members of the true Church of Christ are not ritual believers. They do not use the eggshells of even consecrated eggs as a measure of their piety and pleasing God. Eggs are blessed at Easter precisely as a food product for the purpose of eating it.

According to the priest, attaching special importance not to faith, but to various “petty ritual institutions and the traditions of their “elders” invented by unspiritual people” is not at all a sign of piety.

“Thus, they reduce their “pleasing to God” to the grams and millimeters they carefully measure, to their reverent attitude towards the shells of consecrated eggs, and so on,” explains the priest.

Oleg Molenko reminds that food products and dishes prepared from them must always be sanctified for believers. We are talking about reading a prayer before any meal.

You can say “Our Father” or “The eyes of all trust in You, Lord...”. Food is blessed by blessing it with the sign of the cross or sprinkling it with holy water. All rooms in the house are also blessed with holy water.

And finally, the answer to the question, if even the shells of Easter eggs evoke such reverent attitude among believers, then what to do if truly material shrines, for example, icons, books of Holy Scripture, become unusable? Over time, all things that have become unusable are burned.

What to do with the remaining shells of eggs blessed for Easter?

I heard the opinion that you can’t throw it away, but you need to burn it. Is it so?

Eggs are blessed on Easter as a food product for consumption. If for someone the shell of consecrated eggs is a shrine, then let such a person eat the eggs along with the shell)))

Members of the true Church of Christ are not ritual believers. They do not use the eggshells of even consecrated eggs as a measure of their piety and pleasing God. Since people from structures such as the apostate “MP”, corrupted by the false “Orthodox” faith, do not have true piety, they begin (like the ancient apostate Jews) to attach great and important importance to various petty ritual institutions and the traditions of their “elders” invented by unspiritual people.

Thus, they reduce their “pleasing to God” to the grams and millimeters they carefully measure, to their reverent attitude toward the shells of consecrated eggs, and so on.

But on Easter, not only eggs are blessed, but also meat. But no one asks what to do with the bones left over from a meat dish eaten. Let me note that food products and dishes prepared from them are (should be) always sanctified!

Food is sanctified by a prayer read before eating it. ("Our Father" or "The eyes of all trust in You, Lord..."), blessing her with the sign of the cross by a bishop, priest or layman, sprinkling her with blessed water.

If people eat food without the presence of clerics, then the elder of the laity blesses her with the usual lay sign of the cross . Laymen are also allowed consecrate your food by sprinkling it with consecrated water.

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In this case, boiled eggs, fish with bones, meat with bones, fruits and vegetables with stones, peels and other similar dishes leave behind solid inedible residues (bones, peels, etc.). It happens that edible parts are left uneaten and spoil. In this case, ritual believers are faced with the question not only about the shells of Easter eggs, but also about similar daily food leftovers from consecrated dishes and food products in general.

But the laity are supposed to sanctify the things they use. In this case, due to wear and tear or damage and breakage of consecrated things, deceived ritual believers have a question about these things. Most of all, such charmers, who only have the appearance of piety, and not the power of it, will be annoyed by the use of soap, shampoos, toothpastes and elixirs, toothpicks, toilet paper and other toiletries and toiletry items in daily use. With their approach, they must either revere used toilet paper and soap suds, carefully collecting all their remains for the sake of former consecration, or not consecrate them at all and use them with everything bad and harmful on them, which only removes consecration.

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We, true Christians, know that The Church in its decrees prescribes, for example, to bless even the most stingy places with baptismal water(i.e. baths, bathrooms, toilets, outhouses), because it is in these places that demons often attack people.

Real material shrines that have become unusable or unsightly are subject to burning. : icons, books of Holy Scripture, antimensions, air" at hi, coverings, plates used for communion, images of the cross, broken crosses, etc.

There is another “around-the-egg” problem – stickers on Easter eggs with images of Christ and the Mother of God. It’s actually ungodly to throw away such a shell. It is best not to use such stickers.

Answer from Father Oleg Molenko: Church of St. John the Evangelist

In the old days, the shells of blessed Easter eggs were not thrown into the street. Orthodox people were convinced that during the week after Easter, Jesus Christ and his apostles walked among the people under the guise of beggars. A person who eats a colored egg and throws or spits out its shell on the street risks hitting the Son of God with it and angering him.

To avoid this, our ancestors were in no hurry to throw away the shells left after Easter. In different regions it was customary to burn it, throw it into the river, bury it in the garden, or carry it to church. Various rituals were also performed with the shells of colored eggs.

Despite a lot of prejudices associated with throwing away eggshells, Orthodox priests do not see anything reprehensible in such actions of believers. Eggs, Easter cakes and other products consecrated in church on the night before Easter do not turn into a shrine. By sprinkling food, the priest gives parishioners a blessing to eat fast food after the end of Lent. Holy water that falls on the shells of colored or painted eggs during the Easter service does not make it sacred, so after the meal believers can use it at their own discretion. Throwing away such shells is not prohibited.

Some believers take all the shells from Easter eggs to the temple to burn. But priests recommend doing this only in cases where the paints were consecrated directly in the church. If they were sprinkled in the church yard or on the street, there is no need to return the shells from them to the temple. You can safely throw it away or use it at your discretion.

Today it is fashionable to bring eggs decorated with the faces of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary to the temple to be blessed. Priests warn parishioners that paints with images of saints on their surfaces are not intended for food. If someone carelessly eats such an egg, he should bring the shell from it to the temple after Easter. You cannot throw it away in the traditional way. To save yourself from unnecessary hassle, it is recommended to decorate the surface of painted eggs with ordinary patterns.

Use of shells in folk medicine and gardening

Although the shells of eggs consecrated in the church are not considered sacred, you should not rush to throw them away. It is an excellent source of calcium and can be used to replenish the body with this valuable trace element or to fertilize the garden. But you need to take only those shells that are painted with food coloring (for example, onion peels, carrot or beet juice). In cases where the eggs were created using chemical dyes, it is best to discard the shell. Such a shell will not benefit either people or plants.

For those who don’t know what to do with Easter egg shells, we can advise you to make a natural remedy from them to strengthen bones, nails and teeth.

The shells of Easter eggs intended for the preparation of this natural medicine must be clean. It must be dried and then ground in a coffee grinder to a powder. The resulting egg flour must be placed at the bottom of a glass jar, pour in lemon juice and, covered with a lid, place in a dark and cool place. After a day, the healing agent is ready. To replenish calcium deficiency in your body, you should take 0.5 tsp daily. along with food. But before starting such treatment, a person must consult a doctor.

What to do with Easter egg shells whose purity is in doubt? In this case, it can be used instead of plant fertilizers. The powder obtained from shells crushed in a coffee grinder should be sprinkled on fruit trees in the garden. This feeding will provide them with calcium, which stone fruit crops often lack. Crushed shells are also recommended for use as fertilizer for garden beds. For those who do not have their own garden or vegetable garden, you can add the resulting powder to the soil in which indoor plants grow.

Magic rituals with Easter shells

The ancient Slavs used the shells from eggs consecrated in the church as a talisman that could protect a person from diseases and troubles. To make it, the shells from the dyes eaten at Easter were crushed with fingers, and then put into a bag made of natural fabric. Our ancestors wore such a talisman around their necks along with a pectoral cross and believed that it would protect them from illnesses and misfortunes. You can also simply keep Easter shells at home in a beautiful box. Popular belief says that it is able to protect a person’s home from evil spirits and misfortune.

Easter egg shells can not only protect a person from misfortune, but also restore his health. In the old days, believers left several paint shells near the head of the bed on which the sick person was lying. They believed that such a ritual would save a person from illness and help him get back on his feet faster.

Shells from blessed eggs will help attract good luck. To do this, you need to eat the dye, and destroy the shell from it with your left hand, while saying: “How many small parts - so many successful days.” Then the crushed shell must be hidden in a wallet, bag or piggy bank.

Where should Easter egg shells go for a person who does not want to use them as a means to strengthen bones, does not have a garden or indoor plants, and does not believe in magical rituals? All that remains is to throw them away, because in this case there will be no use from them. Before throwing away the shells, carefully wrap them in a bag or piece of paper and cross them over them. After such manipulations, you can safely put them in the trash can without fear of sin.