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I don't know but the contents of this quick grocery stop cracked me up.

Spy Wednesday

And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve. And he went, and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray Him to them. And they were glad, and convenanted to give him money. And he promised. And he sought opportunity to betray him in the absence of the multitude.
Luke 22:3-6

Egg Decorating at the Assisted Living Home

 We've gotten on the schedule to assist as the assisted living home. It was great! Today we went for the first time and helped with the Easter Egg decorating. It was really enjoyable.  I brought "only" 5 of the children this time. 

There were several techniques from stamping to painting to rolling and fingerprinting.

There are promises to come back, hopefully this will happen every month.  It's great for children to work with the elderly. 

Tuesday of Holy Week

And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his disciples: Sit you here, while I pray.
And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy.
And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.
And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from him.
And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.
And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour?
Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Mark 14:32-36

This reminds me of a Frodo-funny.  He usually accompanies me to my weekly holy hour. One week I asked if he brought a book with him and he said, "No, I prefer to go right to the Garden."  (sleeping like the Apostles)  haha

Monday of Holy Week

Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?
Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.
Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
For the poor you have always with you: but Me you have not always.
John 12:2-8

Palm Sunday

Something I never knew, that there were 2 beasts (note in picture above the Ass and her colt)
UPDATE Jesus rode in on the COLT. After being asked about which Our Lord rode, I figured I better go back to the scriptures and make sure.... 
This is from the Douay Rheims translation:
Luke 19:35 And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their garments on the colt, they set Jesus thereon.
John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.
Mark 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus. And they lay their garments on him: and he sat upon him.
... the following is taken from Dom Gueranger "Liturgical Year".....

The prophet Zachary had foretold this triumph which the Son of Man was to receive a few days before His Passion, and which had been prepared for Him from all eternity. ' Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion! Shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold thy King will come to thee; the Just and the Saviour. He is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.' Jesus, knowing that the hour has come for the fulfilment of this prophecy, singles out two from the rest of His disciples, and bids them lead to Him an ass and her colt, which they would find not far off. He has reached Bethphage, on Mount Olivet. The two disciples lose no time in executing the order given them by their divine Master; and the ass and the colt are soon brought to the place where He stands.

The holy fathers have explained to us the mystery of these two animals. The ass represents the Jewish people, which had been long under the yoke of the Law; the colt, upon which, as the evangelist says, no man yet hath sat, is a figure of the Gentile world, which no one had ever yet brought into subjection. The future of these two peoples is to be decided a few days hence: the Jews will be rejected, for having refused to acknowledge Jesus as the Messias; the Gentiles will take their place, to be adopted as God's people, and become docile and faithful.
The disciples spread their garments upon the colt; and our Saviour, that the prophetic figure might be fulfilled, sits upon him, and advances towards Jerusalem. As soon as it is known that Jesus is near the city, the Holy Spirit works in the hearts of those Jews, who have come from all parts to celebrate the feast of the Passover. They go out to meet our Lord, holding palm branches in their hands, and loudly proclaiming Him to be King. They that have accompanied Jesus from Bethania, join the enthusiastic crowd. Whilst some spread their garments on the way, others cut down boughs from the palm-trees, and strew them along the road. Hosanna is the triumphant cry, proclaiming to the whole city that Jesus, the Son of David, has made His entrance as her King.

Thus did God, in His power over men's hearts, procure a triumph for His Son, and in the very city which, a few days later, was to clamour for His Blood.

I love our Faith, it is so rich and beautiful!

Palm Sunday Procession

Holy Week is finally upon us!  A friend and I are always discussing the grandiose processions we'd like to have.  I'm a lover of the organ accompaniament and was teasing her that she should get a portable organ for our processions. Sure enough she sent me some pictures that gave me the giggles until she pointed out the YouTube of the Palm Sunday Procession in the Vatican that went along with it.  It is 5 minutes of the Pueri Hebraeorum and the grand procession.  Absolutely beautiful.  It is a good reminder that amidst all the muck in this world today, there is still alot of the good and the beautiful.

Have a beautiful and blessed Holy Week and may God bless you with the grace to make a good confession!  Be free of all sin for Easter, it is the greatest gift you can do for yourself... and... more importantly.... the greatest gift you can do to show your love for God.  Remember, there is nothing new under the sun. If you have committed the worst sin ever.... so has someone else (don't think you are so very creative).... all you have to do is say it to a priest under the perfect confidentiality of the confessional.  *That's it*  Then "go and sin no more".

The Hebrew children bearing olive branches, went forth to meet the Lord, crying out, and saying, Hosanna in the highest.

The Hebrew children spread their garments in the way, and cried out, saying: Hosanna to the Son of God: blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.