For Poles, Christmas Eve is a time of family gathering and reconciliation. It's also a night of magic: Animals are said to talk in a human voice and people have the power to tell the future.
Easter is preceded(Jest poprzedzony)by forty days of Lent(Post) which starts on Ash Wednesday(sroda popielcowa) The Sunday before Easter is called Palm Sunday(niedziela palmowa) and this day is the beginning of Holy Week(wielki tydzien). Just before Easter there is Good Friday(wielki piatek) which celebrates(tzn.swietowac ale tu bardziej upamietniac) crucifixion of Jesus Christ (ukrzyzowanie Jezusa).