Easter Triduum Family Traditions

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I’m looking for ideas on how you commemorate the Last Supper, Passover, and Passion with your family.

I’ve decided to decorate the Easter eggs today and buy some Pilsbury French bread to boil in water for pretzel shapes to be eaten for tomorrow. We will go to the Friday service tomorrow at 7pm and stations at the church beforehand. When I was little, we had a wonderful tradition on Holy Thursday of meeting with another family and acting out the Passion with the kids. Then we would all eat together and go to the washing of the feet at the church afterwards. Good Friday included a quiet period at home from 12-3. I’m always at a loss of what to do Saturday. Usually it involves cleaning and preparing food for Sunday.

I would like some new ideas, though. Thanks in advance for sharing.🙂
 
Remembering it was the Easter Tridiuum on Sunday morning shortly before mass and rushing down to the church to get seats in the back 10 minutes after it had started was my family’s only regular tradition (until we traded that in for my dad making excuses about the church likely being too busy). So if you don’t mind, I might borrow your ideas 😉
 
We always went to the washing of the feet Mass on Holy Thursday. Like you we turned off all media between noon and 3 on Good Friday. Then we went to the service. On Holy Saturday we usually dyed the easter eggs and went to the vigil service.
 
Good Friday services. Adoration at noon. Saturday is traditional Polish Easter blessing of food and Adoration. Sunday Mass and family dinner. DS serves on Friday and Sunday. So proud.
 
The Triduum doesn’t line up with Passover this year. So if anybody has Passover traditions to observe (as mentioned in the OP) they still have almost a month to prepare for them, IMS.

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Padres1969 said:
Remembering it was the Easter Tridiuum on Sunday morning shortly before mass and rushing down to the church to get seats in the back 10 minutes after it had started was my family’s only regular tradition (until we traded that in for my dad making excuses about the church likely being too busy). So if you don’t mind, I might borrow your ideas 😉
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Hilarious! God bless your Easter this year, Padres:thumbsup:
 
silver_moon said:
We always went to the washing of the feet Mass on Holy Thursday. Like you we turned off all media between noon and 3 on Good Friday. Then we went to the service. On Holy Saturday we usually dyed the easter eggs and went to the vigil service.
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I like the idea of dying the eggs on Saturday. I love going to the vigil but it’s difficult for me to keep the littlest ones under control after more than an hour’s length of time. 😃
Bless everyone this Easter! Hope to hear more ideas. Just a revision–the kids would read aloud the Last Supper on Thursday early evening, not the Passion. Anyhow, we still practice the tradition, but it’s done on Palm Sunday, now, and we have our own kids doing it. It’s grown so much that now there are about 70 of us involved and we have to rent a clubhouse.
 
We’ve started a tradition of having a picnic in Holy Saturday. My husband is the parish music director and we are so busy during the Triduum. Our family needs a couple hours to relax and spend time together before the vigil.
 
You could make a Gethsemane dish garden, closing the “tomb” this afternoon. Then you “roll away the stone” before the children wake up on Easter – to show that Christ is Risen, indeed…
 
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