A Blessed Easter!!!

/ Jennifer Gregory Miller


The Lord is risen, He is risen, indeed!

This is the day the Lord has made, Alleluia!
Let us rejoice and be glad, Alleluia!

We attended our parish Easter Vigil last night — 100 people came into the Church last night. The Mass was really beautiful and moving, so much so I was moved to tears of joy. After the Alleluia and Gospel, my oldest turned to me and said “Mom, I’m just so happy!” and gave me a huge hug. He expressed exactly what I was feeling!

I have updated the Prayers for the Easter Season to reflect the readings for this Year B. Not all images were updated, but a few. I also added the Collect prayers from Sunday to the Prayer booklet.

A reminder that the first file is similar to my Lent for Children Daily Display, O Antiphon Prayer Companion, and Christmas Prayer Companion which incorporates our favorite liturgical tools, an easel binder (or this one which is more expensive, but more durable and expandable) which we use daily at the table to highlight different thoughts for the liturgical seasons or feasts. The Easter season “Daily Display” which has a page for the week with Sunday’s Gospel (for Year B, 2012) and artwork and antiphon and prayers for the week. The antiphon can be used before any prayer of the day, and the family prayers can either be used for morning and/or evening prayers, or meal prayers. The section in parentheses is for meal times. The artwork is full-color art images.

Easter Season Prayers, Year B, 2012

The second is a little booklet with black and white images, the prayers from the daily display, plus the Collect Prayers from the Sunday Masses, and also the lyrics to some key Easter hymns. This is paginated to print double-sided, and then fold and staple into a booklet. This is for everyone to be able to read along during family prayers. The first two pages on cardstock for a nice cover.
Easter Season Booklet Year B 2012

And clipping from this post, a reminder of other Easter posts:

Easter — Eggs, Vigil, Crafts

Recipes

8 thoughts on “A Blessed Easter!!!”

  1. Dear Jennifer, We wish you a blessed Easter. We have done our Holy Weekretraite in the norbertine abbey of Averbode (Belgium). The norbertine liturgy is also really beuatiful. This morning, the church was full of people. We see this seldom in our country. We thank you for your beautiful work.

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  2. Jenn, your lamb cake turned out so beautifully! Did you end up using a GF recipe? It’s also wonderful and encouraging to hear about all the people who joined the Church at your parish this Easter. Just when I begin to despair about the state of the world, our Lord does something amazing like this!

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    • The total number I think is almost 200. We have a large Hispanic community.

      Thanks about the cake. I made two lamb cakes — one was a little allergy free one, and this one was a pound cake. I’ll be sharing the recipe on my food blog.

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  3. Jenn, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for all the beautiful treasures you share so freely with all of us! My family is strengthened by these fruits of the Church. Wishing you and yours continued Easter Blessings!

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