…even though it’s not…yet…Holy Week.
Tagged by SFO Mom.
Lent is almost over and this Sunday is Palm Sunday already! I thought it would be fun to share what we do special to commemorate the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord.
1. What do you do with your new blessed palm from Palm Sunday? It goes behind the crucifix on our dining room wall. If we have more than one, I’ll put them behind other crucifixes or our big icon from Kosovo (known to Bill and I as THE Icon).
2. What do you do with your old one from last year? I burn it and put the ashes in my garden.
3. What do you do during Holy Week in preparation for Good Friday? Spring cleaning to rival that of any kosher Jew, watch The Passion of the Christ, have a special Holy Thursday dinner with lamb, matzohs, and sparkling grape juice, put purple cloths over the icons and crosses, night prayer vigil until midnight.
4. How do you commemorate Christ’s Passion on Good Friday? No TV or computer, Stations of the Cross at noon stopping after the 11th station and completing them at 3 pm, strict fast (bread and water).
5. When do you color Easter eggs? Holy Saturday afternoon. I let Bill do most of the work with the kids. We’ve done pysanki in the past – I love it. But our kit is buried and I’m not digging it out due to our impeding move. Maybe next year.
6. When do you buy Easter candy? Sometime when I don’t have the kids in tow. I guess I’ll try to do it this weekend.
7. What is the first thing you plan to do Easter morning? Wake up! Then eat some candy for breakfast before going to Mass (I’ll be sure to wait an hour!). This year, I offered to provide some food for the people who have to work at my husband’s office on Easter Sunday, so we have to run that up right after Mass. And then we’ll have a buffet spread at my house with Bill’s parents and siblings and two families whose head-of-house is deployed and any other bachelors (geo- or otherwise) that Bill knows.
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Amy at Raising Angels
Maureen at Trinity Prep School
Michelle at Running Commentary (once a Catholic, always a Catholic!)
and I’d really like to know what Satan‘s plans are.
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Just got the tag. Will get to it tonight or tomorrow. Happy Belated Birthday!
Ah, aren’t you clever.What am I doing for Holy Week? Running 60 miles and working extra hours so my colleagues can have off for Passover. I will spend Easter Sunday with a tres Catholic faction of my family in New Jersey, so hopefully their share of salvation can rub off on me along with the chocolate on my adorable cousins’ hands and faces.
About those palms……My kids tear them apart and leave little pieces everywhere! They make little crosses that don’t stay together and I’ve taken to picking up the little pieces and putting them in the pocket of whatever I’m wearing, later depositing them in a plastic bag, because I know I’ll find more! But eventually I bury them in our garden, in fact I just buried 2 that got so mutilated by Molly trying to make something holy, that they couldn’t be salvaged. I’ve banned my kids from taking more than 1 palm!!! But people at church kept giving them more!