How does your church look for Easter

[pilots13]

I’m in charge of decorating the Sanctuary and church for all the liturgical seasons. As so, I’m always interested to see or hear what other parishes do. Anyone have anything cool or striking, or annoying, that their parish environment committee dreamed up for this Easter (or even back in Lent and the Triduum)?

 

[ConstantineTG]

Ours looked the same it was last year, the empty tomb with the icon of the Resurrection on one side, Easter baskets on the other. And it was jampacked. One of two days in the year the church was full.

 

[sparrowhawk28]

I really liked the decorations in my university’s church. Throughout Lent I attended Mass there a few times a week, and there was always incense and candles burning. In the fifth week of Lent they covered the statues and crucifixes (which made more of an impact with me than it did in my local church; for some reason they always cover all the statues and the crucifix from the very beginning of Lent). On Holy Thursday a few statues and the crucifix were adorned in white, which I thought was a very nice touch.

I really liked the Easter Vigil at my church this year. It’s the first time I recall there being a Service of Light held at the church, and it was just beautiful.

 

[pilots13]

I’ve never got Easter baskets being used in a church setting. For some reason that’s always felt to me like putting a plastic santa in your sanctuary during christmas. Suppose if you do it right it can look good (the baskets that is, the plastic santa is hopeless). I guess my mind just goes basket = bunny = secular Easter. Interesting though, that they would take this more secular symbol like the baskets and offset it with the empty tomb.

 

[CatholicZ09]

I helped decorate the church. We put a statue of the risen Christ next to the ambo with flowers and ivy beneath it, and at the side of the church in the front, there is a nice little “island” there, and we put a cross with a white shroud around it and decorated it with a bunch of different flowers to symbolize the empty tomb. In the back we put flowers by the baptismal font and flowers by all the statues. It looked very nice.

 

[CyrilSebastian]

For Easter the Paschal Candle had pots of flowers around it.
Some of the flowers were pink hyacinths or purple hyacinths.
Some of the flowers were Fortissimo Daffodils.
Fortissimo Daffodils have bright yellow petals and orange-red cups.