A Polish festival!

 Sunday April 14th I went to a "Spring Polish festival" at Immaculate Heart of Mary church/school in Monona Wisconsin. I had such a blast!!!!

I can't say as I feel like I am very in touch with my polish heritage but this event made me inspired to try to be more in touch with my polish heritage.

{great fun!}

{I got this for my recently engaged sister}

{I got this for my brother}

{roll out the barrel....we'll have a barrel of fun...}

{it was at a Catholic church/school and I thought this image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was especially beautiful}

Passion Sunday & Passion Week (Lent week 5):: 4/7/19, 4/8/19, 4/9/19, 4/10/19, 4/11/19, 4/12/19, 4/13/19

Plans:
-Daily Low Mass (but, probably not on Monday); Sunday Mass (2x)

-Daily Lenten Reading: Lives of the Saints, A Character Calendar; Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal (essentially a continuation of what I have already been reading); with the church volume 1 chapters (a few for this week)

-Librivox: Jesus of Nazareth by Mother Mary Loyola (try to finish)

-Daily Rosary (2-3x), Daily Stations of the Cross (by myself, 2x with others)

-Daily Writing/Keeping

-Daily Calendar Work; Father Oak Peg Doll

-Read: The Carrying of the Cross or Start Reading: The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

-Sunday Keeping: Sunday Morning Story land



4/7/19
-Mass (the statues and such were not covered up :(. ); Purple
-Read from/Sunday Keeping: Sunday Morning Storyland, Lent for Children, a time of renewal (maybe I won't actually get rid of this one after lent...), with the church volume 1 (a great Sunday keeping time with lots of notes!)

4/8/19
-Low Mass (YAY!)
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children

4/9/19
-Mass
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal, & a character calendar
-found some old Stations of the cross booklets to possibly use

4/10/19
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal

4/11/19
-Low Mass
-read from: lent for children, a time of renewal, a character calendar, st gemma quote, & butler's lives of the saints

4/12/19
-read from: lent for children, a time of renewal, with the church volume 1 (friday of the passion week), Butler's lives of the saints, a character calendar
-gathered books & such to make plans for Holy week

4/13/19
-Calendar work
-Read from: a time of renewal, Lent for children, around the year with the von trapp family, the catholic all year compendium
-Palm Sunday vigil Mass
-Palm Sunday copy work from Catholic All April booklet
-Holy Week Prep: wrote out more plans, gathered books & such into 1 book bin, read around the year with the von trapp family & the catholic all year compendium
-listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox

This was a packed week for me, so I am glad I was able to do such a great Sunday keeping session on Sunday. kind of sets the tone for the rest of the week. It's hard to believe that Lent is nearly over, and we are now welcoming holy week.

Making plans for Holy Week

{progress made+need to finish listening to this book!}

{Good Friday Poetry--one of my favorites that I discovered in High school!}

{prep for making plans--Lent for Children, A time of renewal, with the church, Sunday Morning storyland, Catholic All stations of the cross, the carrying of the cross book+around the year with the von trapp family, the year and our children, the Easter book, the catholic all year compendium, catholic all April, my missal}

{pulling out books for my friend and I--a character calendar, butler's lives of the saints, my way of the cross that I made (red folder), my planet wise bag with my veil, booklets, rosary and prayerbooks for mass and such}

{making plans}





Also....
-Tenembrae, Chrism Mass, Holy Thursday Mass, Good Friday Service, the seminarians coming home (my brother gets to serve with the seminarians this year!), (hopefully!) confession,
-Father Oak
-LOTS of writing/notes!
-(maybe) reading from the Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (or I might save this for when we go to myrtle beach, as I want some new books for our trip and I haven't started this one yet)

New Pigs!

{so cute!}

Lent week 4:: 3/31/19, 4/1/19, 4/2/19, 4/3/19, 4/4/19,4/5/19, 4/6/19

3/31/19 Laetare Sunday
-Sung Mass (?) at St Marys Pine Bluff; Pink/Rose colored vestments (got to put out the pink father oak!!)
-Read from: a time of renewal, lent for children

4/1/19
-read from: Lent for Children (lovely as always!), a time of renewal (I am contemplating getting rid of this book after this lent)
-listened to Jesus of Nazareth on Librivox (several chapters!)

4/2/19
-Low Mass
-Read from Lent for Children, a time of renewal

4/3/19
-Read from: Lent for Children, A Time of Renewal, A Character Calendar
-I seem to be having a hard time with the waking up early for mass thing this week....

4/4/19 St Isidore of Seville
-I seem to really be struggling with the whole wake up thing this week....
-Calendar work
-Read from: A time of renewal, lent for children, a character calendar & Butler's lives of the saints (for the first time!)

4/5/19
-Read from: A Time of Renewal, Lent for Children

4/6/19
-Read from: Lent for children, a time of renewal
-Mass (so great to see the images and statues and crucifixes veiled!)
-Made plans for passion Sunday & Passion week

This week has felt a bit...stagnant or something. And I'm not sure why I couldn't get my act together to make it to Low Mass more than I did. We're coming down the home stretch of lent, and I need to make some plans for Passion Week and Holy Week.