Our family celebrated a very blessed holy week!
It’s wild to think that this was our second holy week in a strict lockdown due to the pandemic. However, we were not prohibited from going to any of the services at church. And it was nice to incorporate some of the “at home holy week“ traditions we learned last year!
The kids made a holy week video, all in one take! Here’s a link to the video: https://youtu.be/m4onoJCsKi0
Unfortunately, the Saint Joseph dog was excluded from the video.
I love that in Austria in place of palm branches, on Palm Sunday pussy willows branches are used.
The stillness of the church on Holy Thursday
We learned this tradition last year, the washing of one another’s feet in the imitation of Christ washing the disciples feet on Holy Thursday
Due to the gorgeous weather on Holy Thursday, we had our “last supper” in the backyard with some of our friends :) Technically meeting with any more than one person from another household is prohibited, but no one caught us!
This year I learned that it is a tradition in Austria on Good Friday to leave a flower at the cross after you venerate it. After mass we gathered up the flowers and put them in a vase at the foot of the cross.
Clare wanted to be lifted up on the wooden beams after the Good Friday service ;)
Holy Saturday we spent in waiting in preparation for Easter Sunday. The kids made a Paschal candle for the first time this year! We got our kit from Holy Heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXeVHcmQvNU
And they decorated Easter eggs using the Easter egg wraps I got from Shining Light Dolls: https://shininglightdolls.com/products/titles-of-jesus-and-mary-easter-egg-wraps
It was a great, holy week!!
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