Ladders to the ascension of the Lord. Nut cookies "Voznesenskie ladders"
How to make a conspiracy on the stairs to ascension
(to get promoted)
Anyone who passionately desired promotion, came to the Ascension to the healer. The healer took a fee from the visitor and gave a ladder baked from dough with conspiracy words.
I will teach you how to make such a ladder. Who knows, if not you, then maybe the children will find it useful. In addition, the charmed staircase is delicious.
For the dough you need: 120 g of hazelnuts, one and a half glasses of flour, half a glass of crushed sugar (powdered sugar), 1 egg, juice of 1/4 lemon, a little vanilla and holy water.
Mix the toasted ground nuts with vanilla, flour, sugar and egg yolk. Add holy water - so that the dough is not very steep. Knead it and roll out a layer 1–1.5 cm thick. Then cut the layer into strips, lay on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour - so that the strips form a ladder. Grease the ladder with glaze and bake until cooked.
When the dough is kneaded, the plot is read:
True Christ, King of Heaven,
risen in his glory.
Lord, I sing to You
stepped on the ladder of glory,
who brought you
to the throne of the Kingdom of Heaven.
God bless this bread.
Who will eat this bread
who will drink it with holy water,
that Your patronage
finds everywhere.
Fate will not offend that person,
judge won't judge
the cunning will not cheat,
fast will not run around.
Every door will be opened to him
every head will bow to him.
King David himself helps me,
blesses my stairs.
Michael the Archangel confirms my words.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Now, forever and forever and ever.
Forty days will pass after Easter, and Jesus Christ, having finished his work, will rush to heaven. The Ascension of the Lord is a historical event in the New Testament. The holiday does not have a specific day, because it is tied to Easter.
It is on the fortieth day, and it is on Thursday that we celebrate it. The Ascension of the Lord in Orthodox Christianity is one of the twelfth holidays, which in many countries is considered the official state.
Read this article:
Celebration of the Ascension of the Lord
This holiday is dedicated to the Lord. Priests during worship wear white clothes, symbolizing the Divine light.
On the eve, in all churches, the rite of “giving away” Easter is held. And on Thursday, on the day of the Ascension of the Lord, solemn liturgies are performed, where, to the sound of bells, the part of the Gospel dedicated to the Ascension of Christ is read.
All the people on this day rejoice and glorify the Lord. Pies are baked in houses - small rectangles with crossbars on them. They symbolize the ladder - the path of Jesus Christ to heaven. The filling for such pies is made from eggs with green onions. Their dead ancestors - parents are commemorated with boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, pancakes with various fillings.
On a holiday, special prayers are read in which the people turn to the Lord, believing in his strength and power, asking for help.
It is after the Ascension of Christ that the summer season will come with warm and blessed days. Previously, the holiday was still considered the farewell to spring. People decorated their houses with delicate greenery, prepared treats, went to visit, where they had fun from the heart and sang songs, saying goodbye to spring.
folk traditions
The people more perceived the Ascension of the Lord as the growth of all living things, the rise. We went to each other with eggs, Easter cakes and cheese.
bread ladders
According to custom, each housewife baked bread ladders with seven crossbars (7 is the number of heavens of the apocalypse). They were taken to church and consecrated. Then the most nimble climbed the bell tower and dropped the "ladders" down. If it breaks, pray for sins, and if it remains intact, there will be a road to paradise. Later, freshly baked "ladders" were thrown right at the stove on the floor.
Ascension Tradition
They also took bread ladders with them to the garden or in the field. They went there in the afternoon and stood by the garden, tossed up the bread, saying the words "So that my garden grows as high." They caught it and ate it right away. Also, boiled eggs were buried in the garden secretly from everyone and they read “Our Father” three times, appeasing the field spirits for a rich harvest.
What you need to know
If a chicken lays an egg that day, then you need to hang it under the roof of the house. This amulet will protect from troubles.
It’s bad when it rains, it will lead to crop failure and the cattle will get sick.
If it is hot on Ascension Day, then after that you can already swim in the reservoirs.
What not to do on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord
On the day of the celebration of the Ascension of Christ, no work can be done. It is better to prepare for it in advance. By tradition, you need to get together with the whole family or go out of town, to the country.
You can not turn to the Lord with requests for wealth.
You can not ask for revenge on offenders.
Make a wedding
On Ascension, girls wove birch twigs into braids. If the leaves on them did not fade before the Trinity, then be in the house of the wedding.
Commemoration of the dead on the Ascension of the Lord
As well as on Radonitsa, and on Ascension, they always remember their dead ancestors. Fried and boiled eggs are prepared on the table, pancakes are baked. They eat memorial food in the early morning in the house, and in the field or garden during land work. Pies were treated to neighbors and beggars.
Jesus Christ said that the soul of everyone living on earth will go to heaven after death. And this happens in forty days. There exists a completely different life, eternal and righteous, which you need to think about today.
Prayer to the Ascension of the Lord
Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who descended from the heavenly heights for our salvation and nourished us with spiritual joy on the holy and bright days of Your Resurrection, and again, after completing Your earthly ministry, ascended from us to heaven with glory and sat at the right hand of God and the Father!
On this “clear and all-bright day of the Divine ascension to heaven” of Thy “the earth celebrates and rejoices, the sky also rejoices in the Ascension of the Creator of creation today”, people praise unceasingly, seeingly erring and fallen nature on Thy frame, Savior, earthly and ascended to heaven, The angels rejoice, saying: Who is this, who came in glory, mighty in battle. This is truly the King of Glory?! Grant us the weak, the earthly still wise and carnal pleasures, create unceasing, Your ascension to heaven is terrible thinking and celebrating, carnal and worldly, lay aside cares and from Your Apostles to heaven now look with all your heart and all your thoughts, remembering that there are in heaven woe is our dwelling place, but here on earth we are exactly strangers and aliens of Esma, who has departed from the house of the Father to the land of sin far away. For this sake, we earnestly ask Thee, by Your glorious Ascension, Lord, revive our conscience, even if there is nothing more necessary in the world, raise us from the captivity of this sinful flesh and world and make us wise on high, and not earthly, as if we would not please anyone and to live, but we will serve and work for You the Lord and Our God, until we have renounced the bonds of the flesh and passed through the air ordeals without restriction, we will reach Your heavenly abodes, where, standing at the right hand of Your Majesty, with the Archangels and Angels and all the saints we will glorify Your All-Holy Name with the Beginningless Thy Father and Most Holy and Consubstantial and Life-Giving Thy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
Recipe "Voznesenskaya ladder"
Such "ladders" can be made from rye flour, which you need to measure 1 cup. We take the following products for flour:
- honey (1 tablespoon);
- vegetable oil (3 tablespoons);
- sugar (2 cups);
- cinnamon, salt and soda (a pinch);
- hot water (3 tablespoons).
Dissolve in slightly hot water and add all of the above products except flour. Mix well until sugar dissolves.
Gradually add flour, kneading the dough. It should be elastic. We roll sausages out of it. We form ladders and bake in the oven.
Finished products quickly become stale, so they need to be baked early in the morning in order to be eaten in a day.
Ladders are a traditional Slavic recipe. A pie or biscuit was baked in the form of a staircase to heaven, using rich or unleavened dough. Today, the ladder is completely replaced on the table by an open cake with a decoration in the form of stripes on top. It was prepared on the 40th day, Ascension, Lazarus Saturday.
As the people believed, the “ladder” was supposed to facilitate the movement of the deceased up, to heaven, to paradise. In this regard, the biscuit (pie) acquired a commemorative function, which was closely connected with the ideas about the departure of the soul from earth to another world after a forty-day period after death.
Traditionally, seven jumper steps were made in the ladder, which symbolized the seven heavens that the soul can enter.
In the old days, in the villages, fortunetelling was done with the help of baked ladders: they were thrown from the bell tower and, by the number of pieces into which the ladder fell apart, they judged the righteousness of the life of the deceased. If the ladder remained almost intact, the road to paradise was prepared for him. But if it shattered into small pieces, the deceased was a sinner and pray for him for a long time.
Here is a simple recipe for a ladder cookie for Ascension or a commemoration.
Ingredients: 500 g flour, 1 package dry yeast, 300 ml milk, 3 eggs, 50 g butter, a little salt, 8-10 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, 500 g of fresh or frozen berries. You can take flavors: vanilla, nutmeg, cloves, black and allspice, cinnamon raisins.
Preparation: Mix yeast with 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, add warmed milk, eggs and butter. Pour in 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, mix and put in a warm place for half an hour.
Cover the berries with sugar to taste, depending on the variety. You can simmer a little on low heat.
Sift the remaining flour, pour into a container, make a depression in the middle, gradually add the leaven to it. Knead. Sprinkle flour on top to keep dough from drying out. Put in a warm windproof place for another 2-3 hours. During this time, knead twice.
Roll the finished dough in flour mixed with aromatic seasonings. Divide it into 2 parts: roll out a cake from one, make a ladder from the other. Put the berries on a cake, cover with a ladder, decorate with berries, raisins. Lubricate with yolk or milk. Let stand 15-20 minutes. You can only make ladders (as in the photo). Bake at 200 C for about 20 minutes.
These cookies, in the form of a ladder, people baked for the Ascension Day and called it "ladders, ladders." The shape, size of the cookies, even the filling (with poppy seeds, cottage cheese, jam) and decorations were different. Only the image of the stairs remained.
Ladders symbolized spiritual growth, the desire for moral perfection. In other regions of Russia, the ladder was an indispensable attribute aimed at ensuring the harvest. Cookies were eaten in the field and crumbled into crops, falling asleep with earth with sentences. Today, the custom of baking ladders is being revived. And this rite is given a new meaning. Ladder - a symbol of career growth and success.
Knead the dough under the plot. This must be done with Vera.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The true Christ, the King of Heaven, risen in His glory. Lord, I sing of You, who stepped on the ladder of glory, which led You to the throne of the Kingdom of Heaven. God bless this bread. Whoever eats this bread, who drinks it with Holy water, will find Your protection everywhere. Fate will not offend that person, the judge will not condemn, the cunning one will not outwit, the quick one will not run around. Every door will open to him, every head will bow to him. King David himself helps me, blesses my stairs. Michael the Archangel confirms my words. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and forever and forever and ever. Amen. Heart carefully - slightly open the door ... Sweet ... and anxious .... If you want - Believe! .. Do not believe ...
The essence of the Ascension is reminiscent of the joyful gospel event. The resurrected Jesus Christ spent 40 days on earth, communicating with his disciples. After 40 days, Christ finished his earthly ministry and ascended to Heaven to His Father.
The Lord led His disciples to the Mount of Olives, where He blessed them for a righteous life and the creation of His Church on earth. On the top of the mountain, Jesus Christ began to ascend to Heaven.
Jesus Christ has both Divine and Human nature, therefore, with his Ascension, sanctify human flesh as well. Since that moment, mankind has been above the angels, cherubs and seraphim. The ascension of people is measured by their spirituality, faith and involvement in Jesus Christ.
According to the gospel teaching, it was on this day that the last meeting of the Savior with 
his disciples, after which Jesus Christ ascended into heaven. This was a sign to the apostles that Christ would no longer be seen on earth in bodily form.
Ascension is another holiday that symbolizes the Lord's victory over death and sin.
The popular name of the holiday was - "Ushestie". And the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the mountain cloisters was interpreted by the people's consciousness as follows: "Before the Ascension, Christ with his disciples walks the earth, and in the Ascension, the Risen Christ flies away."
Traditions have survived to this day, how the “departure” of Christ takes place. During mass on the day of the Ascension, the heavens open above the church domes, and a staircase descends, along it descends down to earth, all the heavenly host (angels and archangels), who, having descended to earth, stop in anticipation of Christ.
And then, with the first strike of the church bell, they all ascend to heaven together. True, as the ancestors claimed, it was given to see only the righteous.
Ascension customs, rituals and traditions
On Ascension there is a unique opportunity to turn to God and ask for the fulfillment of a cherished desire. People believe that the Lord hears everyone. But do not ask for wealth - the request will be ignored. The exception is cases when money is needed for treatment or if need really overcomes. Then you will get exactly what you need.
According to popular beliefs, everything you ask for in prayer today will surely come true. This sign is connected with the fact that on this day Jesus Christ directly communicated with people before ascending to heaven.
It is believed that an egg laid by a chicken on Ascension will take away all troubles and misfortunes from the house. Of course, urban residents will not be interested in such a sign. But she is well known to the villagers. If someone has a chicken laid that day, the egg is not eaten. Above it, you need to read any conspiracy from the enemies, then hide the egg in the attic. They believe that after this rite no one can harm you. Even if the enemies turn to the witch for help, her efforts will be in vain.
open the door to happiness
In ancient times, peasants were especially afraid to take on any work on this day. The people believed that "for this sin, the hail will knock out the sown fields." At the very least, it’s definitely not worth sowing peas today - it will disappear anyway, “it will beat you with hail”. 
Remembrance of deceased ancestors: They begin to commemorate the dead from the Red Hill holiday, then to Radonitsa, but on Ascension, you must definitely remember your parents, grandparents, who are already in another world, preparing pancakes and boiled or fried eggs for them. They were either eaten early in the morning in the house at the table, or in the field, when they rested during land work, as their active period was going on.
In memory Ascension of the Lord they baked large oblong pies, the upper crust of which was laid out across the crossbars (no more than seven, since it was believed that there were seven heavens). These pies were brought to the church, and prayers were performed over them, after which one part of them was given to the parable, and the other to the poor. These pies were called ladders, ladders, ladders.
In Rus', the heyday of spring and its transition to summer began precisely on Ascension Day. In the evening on this day, a large fire was traditionally kindled, symbolizing the flowering of young nature. Residents of cities and villages led dances - "spikelet" and round dances.
In the morning on Ascension, Mother-Cheese-Earth cries with abundant dew for the guest-Christ departing from her. This "Ascension" dew is endowed with great healing power, capable of curing various ailments. Drops of morning dew were collected by healers. They whispered the cherished words over the drops of "Ascension" dew, then it acquired its miraculous properties. “If you know such a treasured word and whisper it over the Ascension dew, and give it to a sick person to drink, everything will be dashing as if by hand!” - says common folk wisdom that knows all sorts of words.
The girls washed themselves with this dew in order to become beautiful and get married as soon as possible.
If the day is rainy, the summer will be wet. If the sunrise is crimson, summer is expected with thunderstorms.
Heavy rain on Ascension portends crop failure and disease, especially in livestock. If this sign is destined to come true, then after the Ascension, good weather will be established and will last until the day of St. Michael.
"A collection of prayers for every need" open the door to happiness
On this holiday, special rituals can be performed that help the good growth of everything that has already been planted in the fields and gardens.
One of the most common rituals is to visit one's landings and arrange ritual 
meals. If you have your own site, then be sure to go to it, taking with you a birch twig tied with bright ribbons. Stick a branch in the middle of the garden, saying: “As a birch tree grows, so do you, my crops, grow, pour juice, know life-giving water and the sun. Exactly!"
So that your back does not hurt while working in the garden or on the plot, you need to touch the ground and say 3 times a conspiracy: “How light is the mother earth, how high is her power-silushka, so it’s easy for me to deal with her, my body will get drunk with the power of her . Let it be so!"
On this day, many rituals were performed in order to increase the fertility of the fields. In the villages there were prayers in which they asked God for the welfare of the people. Many of them passed by the rye field. At the end of the prayer service, the girls and women each went to their own field to “see Christ off”. There they ate eggs, pancakes, and pancakes, which they called "Onuchi Christ."
Then they threw up a loaf-ladder, saying: “Horn, horn, grab Christ by the legs!” The meaning of this proverb is that the rye grows taller. In some places, the girls rolled on the grass with the words: "Grow grass to the forest, and rye to the barn." By performing these magical actions, the peasant women hoped for a good harvest of rye, for a full ear and a tall stem.
On Ascension, they baked pies with green onions, with the first spring "vegetable garden". In some places, Trinity rites began with the Ascension. On this day, a birch was curled, saying: “It will not wither until the Trinity - the one to whom it is curled will live for a whole year, and the girl will marry before the year.”
The night before the Ascension is a nightingale, the nightingales sing louder and louder than the rest of the time. On this night, catching nightingales was considered a great sin: whoever catches it will not have good luck all year. Ascension was considered the full bloom of spring, its transition to summer: “By Ascension Day, all spring flowers bloom”, “Spring bloom before Ascension”. In the villages they used to say: “The Ascension Day will come, the spring will throw off - red laziness, it will turn around in the summer, pretend to be, it will start working in the field.” They noted: if the weather is fine on Ascension, then there will be a harvest. And if the Ascension is with rain, then on the day of Elijah the Prophet, one must expect a thunderstorm.
From the Feast of the Ascension, a short break in spring work began - until the Trinity.
How to celebrate the Ascension of the Lord
On this day, we must try to stop for a moment and remember about faith, truth and goodness. Modern man is in constant motion and there is practically no free moment to think about eternity and about God. Great church holidays serve to stop and think.
Conspiracies for the Ascension of the Lord
- On this day, Jesus Christ, going to heaven, talked with people, listened to their requests, fulfilled their desires. Therefore, even today you can ask for help, even monetary, if you urgently need material benefits for treatment or for other important needs - you have a large family and do not have enough money to live on, or you are begging and would like to get out of this situation.
To do this, before going to bed, turn to God with the words: “Jesus, help me, take my request to the Lord God. He will listen to you and think of me. Will give a blessing for a good birth. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit." After that, you need to lie down in a fresh bed and read the prayer “Our Father”, then wash yourself early in the morning and go to church, where you light a candle for your health. Believe me, very soon your request will be granted, of course, if you were sincere and pure in your thoughts.
"A collection of prayers for every need" open the door to happiness
Also in Ascension you can spend rite to protect the earth from damage and the evil eye.
To do this, bury the shell from the Easter egg in the corners of your site, saying aloud 3 times a conspiracy: “Lord, bless my land, Lord, protect it from the machinations of the devil and people, from the attacks of pests and animals, protect it from witchcraft, from theft, from witchcraft, from the evil eye, from damage, from lessons, from prize-winners, from reproaches, from envy , from praise. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy
Spirit. Amen"
A conspiracy from the bad to the Ascension of the Lord
A conspiracy to get rid of a bad past, unnecessary; from the obstacles that hinder your life. 
On Ascension, visit the church and light a candle to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. After that, in a whisper or you can just use your heart, pronounce the words of the conspiracy:
“Jesus, our Savior, as You got rid of worldly fuss, ascended into heaven, so help me, a sinner (oh) in the past, leave all troubles and problems in order to come to you with a pure heart and bright thoughts! In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen"
The ringing of bells has magical power in Ascension.
If you accidentally hear the ringing of a church bell, then cross yourself three times and say a conspiracy to yourself:
“Heard the bell (a), became happy (a), drove away failures (a), took luck (a). The Lord is my witness! Amen".
If you live far from the temple, then you can simply ring the little bell yourself, saying the following words of the conspiracy:
“With a bell song, with a bell ringing, I convene the Angels, I invite the Archangels. You, holy servants, deliverers from troubles, shelter me, take me under guardianship. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
RITE FOR THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD, FOR PROMOTION ON THE SERVICE LADDER
Anyone who passionately desired promotion, came to the Ascension to the healer, who took a fee from the visitor and gave him in return a charmed “ladder” baked from dough.
I will teach you how to prepare such a "ladder" and what plot you need to read over it. Who knows, if not you, then maybe your children will find it useful. Below are two options, choose the one you like best (their recipe is very similar, but the spelling words are different).
Attention! This is only your "ladder" and do not give it to others! If members of your family ate it by accident - please, but do not specifically feed them with this charmed goodies.
Option 1.
Hazelnuts - 120 g, flour - 1½ cups, crushed sugar or powdered sugar - ½ cup, egg - 1 pc., juice of 1/4 lemon, vanillin - to taste, holy water.
Mix the toasted ground nuts with vanilla, flour, sugar and egg yolk. Add holy water, but so that the dough is not very steep. Knead it and roll out a layer 1–1.5 cm thick. Then cut the layer into strips, which are laid on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour, so that a “ladder” is obtained from them. Lubricate the "ladder" with glaze and bake until cooked.
When you knead the dough, read this plot:
True Christ, King of Heaven,
Rising in His glory.
Lord, I sing to You
Stepping on the ladder of glory
that brought you
To the throne of the Kingdom of Heaven.
God bless this bread.
Who will eat this bread
Who will drink it with holy water,
That Your patronage
Find it everywhere.
Fate will not offend that person,
Judge won't judge
The cunning will not cheat
Fast will not run around
Every door will be opened to him
Every head will bow to him.
King David himself helps me,
He blesses my stairs
Michael the Archangel confirms my words.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
When the charmed "ladder" is ready, eat it with holy water.
Option 2. The recipe for a "bread" ladder, which gave good luck and career success.
To prepare it, you need to prepare such a dough: flour - one and a half glasses, half a glass of sugar or powdered sugar, nuts - a quarter of a glass, one egg and lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons, vanillin - to taste and consecrated water. The nuts must be ground and fried, mixed with vanilla, sugar, yolk and flour, pour in so much holy water to make a not very tough dough, knead and roll out the layer 1.5 cm thick. Then it must be cut into strips and put on a baking sheet, pre-dusted with flour: you should get a ladder. It must be smeared with glaze and baked in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees until cooked.
the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, strengthen and mold the dough, and you, Lord, bless and give me happiness. I am waiting for your patronage, and my submission to you. Give me happiness and health, so that there is a bright share. Now and forever and forever and ever. Amen".
Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who descended from the heavenly heights for our salvation and nourished us with spiritual joy on the holy and bright days of Your Resurrection, and again, after completing Your earthly ministry, ascended from us to heaven with glory and sat at the right hand of God and the Father!