Holy Week in Pictures: 2019

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the best about grabbing the camera in the midst of living our life. I prefer eating a meal well over photographing it and it always seems that my mother hands are filled with trinkets instead of a camera. However, I did take a bit of extra effort to photograph some of our Holy Week happenings.

Hope you enjoy!

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is low key at our home. We simply added the Palm Sunday print and palms from Mass to our prayer table.

Decorate feast table
Mass

Our Palm Sunday feast table: Palm Sunday print, sacrifice jar/beans, nails (given by a friend), and palm bouquet.

Monday and Tuesday

Lots of spring cleaning these days. I was able to get the decluttering and organizing done throughout Lent, so I was left with the dirty cleaning jobs that don’t happen often like window washing, porch floor scrubbings, light fixture polishing, rotating mattresses, and changing out our flannel sheets.

I was grateful that I had the organizing out of the way – there is no way I would have had the energy to tackling decluttering, organizing, and cleaning in these few days.

Sorry! No pictures! I was too busy cleaning!

Menu Planning
Create grocery list
Spring cleaning

Spy Wednesday

I was thrilled to be notified that all the planners were finished up at the local print shop. The kids and I picked up the planners and then did the grocery shopping for the remainder of Holy Week and Easter.

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More spring cleaning
Grocery shopping (hello Walmart pick-up for the win!)

The planners are all in! Yeah! Find them here.

Holy Thursday

No pictures for today. We had a Passover-ish meal of lamb roast, bread (the kids requested yeast bread and I obliged), salad (bitter herbs), and applesauce (for charoseth), and sparkling juice (wine).

After supper it was off to Mass.

Passover-ish meal
Mass

Good Friday

Start the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Hot Cross Buns
Mass

Hot Cross Buns for our light snack lunch. We used this recipe, substituted raisins for currants.

Maybe not liturgically appropriate, but the kids were delighted to find daffodils blooming. They always make bouquets for the prayer table, and it was hard to say “no” to that face.

Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet outside with the kids. While we try hard to keep Good Friday solemn, it was difficult this year as it was the first day to have sunshine and warm weather that week

Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday was spent in preparing for Sunday. The weather was cooperative so we spent some time cleaning up the yard and enjoying the sunshine. Of course, there was egg dying and other food preparations.

Lowell (11) and I were able to make it to the Easter Vigil. I’ve been a convert now for 8 years and this was my first vigil Mass. It was unbelievably wonderful! Lowell and I agree unanimously that it is our favorite Mass of all time (if it isn’t sacrilegious to say so!).