Liturgical Living: Celebrating Eastertide

Christ is Risen! He is Risen, indeed!

Easter Sunday begins the liturgical season known as Eastertide. How long is Eastertide? 50 days! The Easter season begins on Easter Sunday and continues until Pentecost Sunday, which falls on June 8 this year.

Just as the rest of the world is putting away their Easter decorations, we as Catholics are just beginning to celebrate. Easter is the Feast of Feasts, and we get to savor the beauty of redemption for 50 days! Alleluia, indeed!! 

Here are some fun family activities to continue celebrating the Easter season:

•      Use washable paints to paint a stained-glass cross on your front door.
•      Decorate an Easter candle to place at the center of your dining room table.
•      Make a Resurrection set for your home (similar to a Nativity set).
•      Teach your family to pray the Regina Coeli. During the Easter season, this prayer replaces the Angelus.
•      Learn about lambs as an Easter symbol and make cupcakes decorated as lambs.
•      Make an “Alleluia” banner to put up in your home.
•      Use strawberries and blueberries on vanilla ice cream to make Divine Mercy sundaes on Divine Mercy Sunday, then pray a Divine Mercy chaplet.
•      Take an Emmaus walk. As a family, read the Emmaus story (Lk 24: 13-35) together. Then go to some place that has special meaning to your family.
•      Use chalk to decorate your sidewalk with Easter words and pictures.
•      Bake Resurrection rolls or Easter Story Cookies.

Christ is Risen! He is Risen, indeed! Alleluia!