Food on Holy Saturday

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Hi! Me and my DH are babies in the Catholic faith (2 yrs in the Church this Easter). We try to make our Christian holydays more Christ centered. So my question now is if there is any tradition on food to eat on Holy Saturday? Before we celebrated Easter on this day, but now we want to do it right and Celebrate the Resurection on Sunday ofcourse!! So you as families. What do you eat on Holy Saturday and what do you do all day? 😉 We have six children - the four oldest not catholics (yet ;)) but we want our two smallest children grow up with catholic traditions and the older to see the right way to celebrate.
 
Some continue the Good Friday fast and abstinence from meat until the Easter Vigil.

Personally, I dye Easter Eggs on Saturday.
 
We don’t do anything special as far as meals or eating on Holy Saturday.
 
The only special regarding food and Holy Saturday is that in some cultures they bring their baskets of specialty food to the Church for a blessing. We have it every Holy Saturday at 11 am.
I believe it’s a Polish tradition or Slovak. I could be wrong, though we get many families interested in this.
 
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Ok Thank you! So preparing eggs and other foods this day is the thing to do 🙂 And no special foods. I have seen the Easter baskets. I will make one with our 2,5 yrs old 🙂
 
Mejamy said:
Ok Thank you! So preparing eggs and other foods this day is the thing to do 🙂 And no special foods. I have seen the Easter baskets. I will make one with our 2,5 yrs old 🙂
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I would encourage you to make them for your older children, too, with the treats and things that they may like. You need to share your faith with them and if you just do things for your two youngest they may feel as if you are favoring them because they converted.
 
I’ll be attending the Melkite mission’s liturgy on Saturday evening. Afterwards, there will be a social/potluck–with Lebanese ranging from immigrants to about third generation, many of whom have kept the strict Eastern lenten fast (no meat, dairy, fish, olive oil, save perhaps on weekends).

So the question may be what I won’t be eating that day 🙂
On Sunday, I’ll still attend the Resurrection Matins and Pascha liturgy for my parish–after which we have our own social, where we share so much food from our baskets that we aren’t getting a ham this year.

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We do this here, too. Polish blessing of Easter foods (though we don’t have as many Polish folk as we used to).
 
I know my Polish grandmother used to have, what would be our Easter dinner, blessed on Holy Saturday. 🙂
 
The Old Colonel will not extend the Good Friday fast. Rather, he will observe normal rations for any Saturday of the year on regular schedule.
 
I see your point. We didn’t do any basket because we couldn’t Come to a foodblessing. But I will think of this next year.
 
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