Holy Thursday in our home 2015

And so It nears......... the final days of our journey to Easter!!

The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, is continued through Good Friday with the celebration of the Passion of the Lord and Holy Saturday, reaches its summit in the Easter Vigil, and concludes with Vespers of Easter Sunday.

This time is called "the triduum of the crucified, buried and risen"; it is also called the "Easter Triduum" because during it is celebrated the Paschal Mystery, that is, the passing of the Lord from this world to his Father. The Church by the celebration of this mystery, through liturgical signs and sacramentals, is united to Christ her Spouse in intimate communion. — Paschales Solemnitatis

Our tradition has been for many years to celebrate a Seder Meal with a Catholic flavour.
I have shared the script for our meal which takes about 20 mins all up and then we have a roast lamb dinner with a special, for us, dessert of trifle.
Then we attend Church for the Mass of the Last Supper.
Often we are rushing so much that we don't get time for desert before we go and feel like the we are rushing like the Hebrews for the Passover meal as instructed :). If this happens we have our sweets when we come home before the fasting and abstinence  of Good Friday.

Then we attend Church for the Mass of the Last Supper.
Often we are rushing so much that we don't get time for desert before we go and feel like the we are rushing like the Jew's for the Passover meal as instructed :). If this happens we have our sweets when we come home before the fasting and abstinence  of Good Friday.

We had two trifles as usual and with Braedon and Anna-Lisa with Grand-dumpling Balian here we needed them both.

Sadly I didn't get to Mass as we had a sick one and I stayed at home with said child- but I guess I got to finish the clean up after dinner- yeah!

So as all are tucked into bed tonight ready for our next big day I leave you with this cute picture of our youngest two licking the bowl of the jelly as we prepared the trifle the night before.

Blessings to you and your homes,