Resources for Holy Week and Easter

Praying at Home with a Holy Thursday Prayer Towel
Praying at home can help you prepare your children to join the liturgies at church. At www.cmdnet.org/images/easyblog_articles/233/7-Celebrating_Triduum-Home_Activity-Triduum_Crafts_and_Family_Prayer-Tom_East.pdf
you can find suggestions for ways to pray at home during Holy Week and directions for making a Prayer Towel to use.

Add a Photo of Bishop Hying to Your Home Altar
At the Chrism Mass on Tuesday of Holy Week, the Church celebrates the unity of the Church and of the priests with their bishop. You can express your unity by adding a photograph of Bishop Donald Hying to your home altar. A photo is available at madisondiocese.org/bishop

Prayers for Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter
Even if you can't worship in-person at the parish, you can pray at home. This booklet will help you get started creating home prayer that suits your family: www.waverleycatholic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Weekly060420-Family-Prayers.pdf

Strip Your Home Altar on Holy Thursday
We strip the altar at Church at the end of the Holy Thursday Mass. If you have set up your own altar at home, you can strip it, too. Remove all the candles, prayer cards, plants, statues, and beautiful coverings you may have put there, and clean the altar. Then after sundown on Holy Saturday or early Easter Sunday, you can put everything back and maybe add some beautiful flowers to celebrate Our Lord's Resurrection!

Braid Palms for Passion Sunday
Here's a link to a YouTube tutorial on how to weave a lapel cross from palm fronds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lozqad_cKj4&list=PLllRs2djAosRlLGsg4-iUOy74k4EFcn55

Bless Yourself with Holy Water
Bless yourself and your home with holy water in unity with those who are being baptized and received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. Bottles of holy water will be blessed at the parish at the vigil and will be available for you to take home.