Catholics....?

Question

I am aware that this month is an important one for you
could you share what events/traditions would take place for you during this month ?
are some of these things family/ church / personal traditions ?
just curious as always
thank you in advance xx

Answer 1

Today, Palm Sunday & Passion of Chirst. All pictures & statues of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph are covered (since Jesus is still alive)

April 2, 2007 is the anniversary of the Death of JPII (we luv u)

Holy Thursday "Mass of the Lords Supper" (Adoration ceases till Easter morning). Priest washes the feet of a few parishiners. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Apr1998/Wiseman.asp#F2. Eucharist Adoration is heightened.

Holy Friday "Celebration of the Lords Passion" (3:00 PM) (No Eucharist or confession). Our Parish Passes a 'Life Sized Cross' (like body surfing, but it's cross surfing) --- Church stripped barren.

Holy Saturday " Easter Vigil - Light Service, Liturgy of the Word, Initiation of new Catholics, first Mass of Easter. Mass is 3-4 hours long.

Sunday - Easter!!!

Following Sunday is "Divine Mercy"

Answer 2

Each community has traditions and each family have their own traditions also. Many are different due to location on the planet.
My family is now broken, so I will be on the phone with my son, as he lives in Costa Rica with his mother. There he will have been involved in a much different community celebration than here in the state of California, USA.
Some communities are strict and others not so much. Families are new or old, and have traditions different from others. Newly weds are adjusting to the merging of two families.
Personally I now have a very quiet reflective time.
But I have memories of egg coloring and hunts, both in my church community in Escondido, Ca. and quieter ones at home with family.
Hope this was of some help...
Peace.

Answer 3

As an old Byzantine Catholic, with a mainly Slovak upbringing (I'm 1/3 German too) we used to start, after Palm Sunday, with the distributed pussywillow and palms, cooking the traditional Slovak Easter foods to prepare for Holy Week, attend Mass on Good Friday, if poss., and as we prepared the meal we also prepared an Easter Basket of our traditional foods, a portion of which would get blessed on Saturday.

There was fasting, no meat, until Sunday and then Easter Sunday Mass... and the exchanges of "Christos Voskrese" resounded at Mass and among friends, which is an exchange that simply means "Christ Is Risen" and the reply "Voistinnu Voskrese", "Indeed He Is Risen".

On Holy Days of Obligation there always was a special blessing given at the end of Mass, with a bit of scented, blessed oil on the forehead, extra $$ donated, etc. Very busy time, very Slovak for us.

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Answer 4

It is more of a Spiritual time than Christmas. Christmas has been spoiled by the 'commercial kings' so many Catholics regard Easter as a more 'special' time.
We have been fasting (usually from sweet things) and we celebrate like anyone else, by eating what we've been missing!
It is also a time for Family to get together, but without the stress of exchanging gifts, it is more relaxing.
We don't have any real family traditions, just to enjoy each others company!

Answer 5

Palm Sunday: Normal mass on Sunday, but everyone is handed palms (long strips of it.) We normally fashion them into crosses, which takes a lot of practice.

Every Friday of Lent: We (Assyrian/ Chaldean Roman Catholics, anyway) have a special ceremony and normal mass. The special ceremony is a series of prayers said at every "station" of Jesus Christ's crucifixion (carrying the cross, being nailed. . .)

Good Friday: We (again, only Assyrian/Chaldean tradition, I think) open the church, and the priest and church volunteers hold a cross in front of the alter. We pay homage to our church that night, kiss the cross, and have a silent moment of prayer. What my family does is visit all the churches; we make a night of it.

Easter Sunday: Church again, only with a special skit done about a peasant winning over a church guard with his love for God and how He made all men equal. The guard lets him pass into the church. Then regular mass takes place.
Afterwards, my family all goes to my aunt's house, and we all exchange eggs.

And it was definitely Pontius Pilate that sentenced Jesus to death, not Ceasar.

Answer 6

I'm catholic although not practising, when I was a child every Sunday up and off to mass never missed days of obligation and then it was no meat on Friday especially good Friday. I now only go to births, deaths and marriages. I live my life as a good person help others when I can and look at myself as a good person. Easter Sunday hopefully will be having my Mum, if well enough, and my siblings for dinner. Mum don't go to mass now as she is not well but the priest calls with her if I'm there I will have communion.

Answer 7

This Month Celebrates Jesus riding into Jeruselum on a donkey,this is called Palm Sunday. Being told he is a heathen with his religion, and sentenced to death by Caeser. His death on the Cross on Good Friday, Easter Sunday celebrates Jesus coming back to life. It is one of our biggest celebration except for Christmas when He was born.

Answer 8

April Fools!

Answer 9

I am catholic and most of the things that will be going on in Saskatchewan are a bunch of hokes pokes socializing, and fanatic holy rollers doing the cha cha, hoping God will save their sorry a-sses.

Answer 10

I think the Catholic religion is inherently disordered and an evil and malign influence on world politics...I think it should withdraw from it's global political ambitions and power seeking.