Liturgy and Easter Egg Hunts

This news is a few weeks late but better late than never! Here are a couple photos of our Mass on Easter Sunday morning:  special thanks to our servers of Holy Week!  And it was a joy to have seminarian David Gayhart with us who will be ordained to the transitional diaconate in a few months!

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I hope you are having a joyful Eastertide! We are. The Liturgy of Holy Week and Easter Week were so sacred and uplifting. On Easter Monday we had a mix of the spiritual and the mundane...The Exultet and an Easter Egg Hunt combined!

What do these have in common?  Nothing...so you might think...except when a group of two aspiring nuns in a monastery come up with a fun Easter game.

"2012 Eggsultet Hunt"

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Sr. Cecilia Maria giving directions

• two teams racing to be the first to put the Exsultet together
• slips of paper with bits of text of the Exsultet are in eggs hidden in and outside the monastery

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Sisters listen with full attention

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Team #1

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Nuns on the run...for eggs

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Team #2

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Sisters rest after the big hunt...

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Who won?

It was a tie! No lie!

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Too much Easter candy?

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A week later...

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Sisters show off the last of our dyed eggs and hot cross buns

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Divine Mercy Sunday (If you look closely you can see the Divine Mercy Image on the guests" side of the sanctuary.)

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*Wondering what the Exsultet is? It is an awesome hymn of praise sung before the Easter candle at the Easter Vigil.  Find out more here and here.