Celebrating Holy Week At Home

We've compiled a short list of online links for ideas on how you can celebrate Holy Week at home.  We have the rare opportunity to focus our attention on the events of Holy Week without the usual distractions of daily life.  Take this time to start some new family traditions, to draw close to each other and truly reflect on Jesus's death and resurrection.

There are so many more resources available!  Hopefully this list will get you started.

• Holy Week at Home During Quarantine
• Our Sunday Visitor - Make the Most of Holy Week at Home
• Catholic Exchange - Celebrating Holy Week with Your Family
• Loyola Press
• Catholic Mom - Holy Week
• Faith Catholic - Easter 
• Diocese of Sacramento - Holy Week at Home
• Formed

FIVE SIMPLE WAYS TO CELEBRATE HOLY WEEK AT HOME

Create a simple prayer space in your home, and gather there to pray during the week.

1. Palm Sunday: At your regular Mass time, read the first Palm Sunday Gospel (Mt 21:1–11) and meditate on or discuss what Jesus might be thinking as he enters Jerusalem for the last time.
2. Holy Thursday: Bake bread for sharing at dinner; make a ritual of stripping the dinner table of all cloths and decorations after dinner.
3. Good Friday: Pray the Stations of the Cross at 3 p.m.
4. Holy Saturday: In the morning, read Psalm 64 and break your Good Friday fast solemnly with a simple meal.
5. Easter Sunday: Dress up the dinner table again. Include candles and crosses, so that the candy baskets aren’t the only festive items present. Sing Alleluia and read the Easter Gospel (Matthew 28:1-10) with solemnity and joy.

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