Blessing of Easter Food

Easter-themed baskets with white and red decorations, featuring religious text "Christ is Risen" in red. Baskets contain greenery and white flowers, with lace and ribbon accents. The baskets are placed on a wooden surface near a window."

About that Easter Basket Later this week

Over the years, John DeJak and I post regular pictures and sonnets of praise and admiration for our Easter baskets. This old tradition in Mother Church has the faithful bringing special food to the Church on Holy Saturday to be blessed by the priest to provide food fitting for that first breakfast that breaks the fast…

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Easter-themed baskets with white and red decorations, featuring religious text "Christ is Risen" in red. Baskets contain greenery and white flowers, with lace and ribbon accents. The baskets are placed on a wooden surface near a window."

Święconka tradition emulates the very first Easter – 7 foods, and Holy Saturday Blessing of Food

Holy Saturday, Easter baskets, and blessed food for first Easter meal. With the prayers usually prayed by the priest over the seven foods traditionally in the basket.

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A group of people gathered around a table with food and candles, led by a priest in religious vestments. The scene depicts a Catholic blessing of the meal with traditional attire and decorations, featuring warm colors like browns, whites, and blues.

Holy Saturday and The Blessing of the Easter Food

My grandfather’s sister, my great-Aunt Ann, was a formidable old Slovenian spinster. A woman who suffered greatly, she had no natural children of her own and lost her husband when his airplane crashed in the Pacific during World War II. She was a force to be reckoned with during her whole life and when she…

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