Good Friday (2016)

It is Good Friday once again. As usual, recipes are over on the side of my blog, for Easter Egg Bread and Pizza Rustica.

The Holy week has been a bit different, for me. I have been going to daily Mass at the Hospital next to my building, for the past 3 weeks.

I don't know if I feel more religious, less religious or something in between, but I do enjoy the change from thinking in terms of shows feeding in and logs that need to have breaks filled.

This past week I missed Palm Sunday at my Church (picture is from a few years ago) and I thought that I would not have a Palm Cross, which I make from the palm they give to me, during the Mass. You can see some of my work, HERE.

That's the way life goes sometimes, I thought.

I went to Mass on Monday at the little chapel and what do I see wedged between 2 chairs in the row in front of me? A Palm! I was so happy.

I started making the cross the way I normally do, braiding two pieces together for the vertical piece of wood. As I was doing this, the Mass began and I don't do it during most of it. I only do it during the homily. At the Chapel's Mass, the homily is only about 5 minutes. That meant I had to change how I was making my cross. So I folded it in half, to make the wood that goes horizontal across the top. So my cross is a hybrid, but it worked for me.

Tuesday's Mass was about the one who would betray Jesus. Setting the stage for Spy Wednesday and the Last Supper. I missed Wednesday's Mass, because I had taken the day off, to bring Makenna to the vet.

Thursday's Mass was The Last Supper. One of the things they do, is the priest washes the feet of the people. It is in a similar fashion, to what Jesus did that night.

We got to the end of the Mass and I was so happy that it looked like no feet washing was going to go on. Suddenly, the priest took off his stole and his vestments and said that he needed each of us to remove a shoe. Ack!

The Mass had already run 5 minutes late and I so ran out of there. I know...chicken. :-)

Friday is a Communion Service and Stations of the Cross. That seems a bit much for a lunch break on a Friday, so I will be skipping it.

Hopefully I will make it to Easter Service on Sunday, to round out the holy season.