Blessed Holy Thursday!!
Today celebrates the day of the Last Supper and the institution of the Holy Eucharist, the source and summit of our Catholic life. We will make homemade bread for tomorrow's fast. We will continue watching Jesus of Nazareth, maybe even finish it depending on how much time we can devote to it. We will work on a jigsaw puzzle of the Last Supper that we will glue together and frame when we are done and hang it in the dining room. And we will attend mass tonight where Maria will be shocked, again, to see Father Mike washing feet. She is also blessed to serve tonight as well.
Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day of Jesus' death. We will fast, of course, and continue working on our puzzle. We will make a Paschal candle from this kit. We will make pretzels. At 3pm (slightly after, actually,,,when I get back from picking Kain up from school), we will pray the chaplet, enjoy our pretzels and water in place of our usual tea time, and begin a Great Silence until the Vigil tomorrow. The Great Silence is a new practice we are trying this year. It is a common practice in religious orders and I am interested in attempting to do it here, in a modified way of course. We will have no TV (with the exception of The Passion), no music, no computer, and just try to keep things kind of subdued and quiet as much as we can manage. We will attend the Good Friday service at the church. When the kids go to bed, I will watch the Passion and cry, cry, cry.
Holy Saturday, we will continue our (relative) silence. We will dye Easter eggs and get ready to travel to the hermitage. Hopefully before we leave I will remember to remove our Lenten altar and put up white altar cloth, glue flowers to our thornless crown of thorns, etc. We will attend the Vigil mass there. This mass is so wonderful, so beautiful...my favorite of the year, especially when we can attend at the hermitage. It has been a true blessing for me to be able to go. We had several obstacles that were going to prevent us from being able to attend, and in the last couple of days everything has resolved itself and we will be able to go! And my parents live right next door so we will be visiting them with as well.
Easter Sunday we will have resurrection rolls for breakfast followed by the Easter egg hunt and Easter dinner at the hermitage. We will visit with family and friends and then travel back home. We will have another Easter egg hunt with our own dyed eggs at home and the kids will get their Easter baskets. Then we'll have a light supper of hard boiled eggs and chocolate before sending the kids off to bed.
Blessed Easter to you all...I will be post-less until then. :)
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