Holy Week at Home Suggestions and Resources

Bring Palm Sunday into your home by putting fresh greenery on your door!

Holy Thursday:

• Stream Holy Thursday Mass
• Have a family feast to commemorate the Last Supper
• Consider washing a family member’s feet or hands
• Decorate your table for the feast - go all out its the Institution of the First Eucharis!
• After the meal - Strip your house of decorations, pictures, throw blankets, and pillows leaving your domestic church bare just as our churches are stripped for Good Friday

Good Friday:

• Stream a Good Friday Service - www.archindy.org for services
• Take some time for silence Jesus was hanging on the cross until 3pm - honor this time
• Say a divine mercy chaplet at 3pm - the hour of mercy
• Venerate the Crucifix

Holy Saturday:

• Continue to leave your house bare in solemn observance of Jesus’s death
• Day to prepare for Easter celebrations · Clean, Cook, get decorations ready to go Easter Sunday!!
• Bring all the color and decorations back into the house! · Make an alter where you are watching mass and decorate it with candles and flowers
• Decorate your kitchen table/dining room table with a table cloth, candles! ·
• Fill your house with flowers! ·
• Have a special meal ·
• Dress up in your Easter best while watching Easter mass ·
• Make an ALLELUIA banner and hang for all to see ·
• Play and be JOYFUL for the LORD is risen and He has conquered the grave

COVID-19 Information

Let’s be confident that God - who can write straight with crooked lines - will help bring good fruit from the new normal that we as individuals and families will experience in the weeks ahead.  This is a lot of information, but I encourage you to read through it all.