Ideas for a Meaningful Quarantine Holy Week and Easter

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Palm Sunday – preview day (Palm branches as Jesus enters Jerusalem, the Passion proclaimed, Jesus is crucified, dies, and is buried):

• Put some green branches on your door.

• Wear red, like the priests do, to remember the blood that is shed for you today.

• Make crosses with whatever you have – long grass stems, twisty-ties, pipe cleaners

• Read Karen’s book Walking Through Holy Week!

 

Holy Thursday – The Last Supper and the Agony in the Garden

• Make bread (go big and make unleavened bread!)

• Drink some wine

• Create a home version of a Passover/Seder supper (the Last Supper was a Passover meal)

• Wash your feet and/or the feet of the people in your home

• Commit to a way that you can serve others after Easter

• Go outside to pray

• Take your laptop with the Mass livestream outside/on balcony for adoration time

 

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Good Friday (Jesus’ death and burial)

• Watch the second day of the Lenten Mission and reflect on Katie’s Stations of the Cross with her

• Set up Stations around your house or yard and walk through them (could be a piece of paper with a number, a picture, or something super creative – send me pics!!)

• Walk around your neighborhood or in the woods as you pray the Stations of the Cross

• Build a cross or use one you already own. Sit with it in prayer for a while.

 

 

Holy Saturday (waiting, and the light of Christ breaks through the darkness – He is Risen! New members enter the Church through Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation)

• Turn off all the lights and light candles in your home

• If you can find them, shoot off confetti poppers or some kind of fireworks/sparklers to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection

• Make a cake or special dessert

• Ring bells, make music, blare joyful music

• Take a dip in the Holy Hot Tub or swimming pool or just a nice, warm bath

• Take a bite of your chocolate Easter bunny after the final blessing

 

 

Easter Sunday (The Resurrection)

• Easter egg hunt in the back yard or the house

• Make resurrection cookies (start these on Saturday)

• Park in the church parking lot and honk your horn when the bells are rung in the Mass (as you watch on livestream)

• Pick flowers or buy flowers for your home

• Put out silk flowers

• Clean your windows – let the light shine in without anything blocking it

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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday – Blessed Fulton Sheen