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Low Sunday

April 7, 2024 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 04 April, Dragonfly, Easter Leave a Comment

This day is known as “Quasimodo Sunday” from the first two words of the opening Antiphon at Mass that speak especially to those baptized at Easter:

I Peter 2:2 
Quasi modo geniti infantes, rationabile, sine dolo lac concupiscite ut in eo crescatis in salutem si gustastis quoniam dulcis Dominus. 

As newborn babes, alleluia, desire the rational milk without guile, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Rejoice to God our helper. Sing aloud to the God of Jacob. 

It is the day that the newly baptized officially put away their white robes, hence, it is known liturgically as “Dominica in albis depositis” or the “Sunday of putting away the albs.” 

~FishEaters

Parish Baptismal Font on Dragonfly’s Baptism – 6.14.10

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In the early ages of the Church many people were baptized during the long ceremonies which nowadays are held early on Easter Saturday morning, but which were then held during the night of Easter Saturday. After the blessing of the font came the baptism of the neophytes, who afterwards dressed themselves in white garments as a sign of their new cleanness of soul. They wore these garments all day and every day until Low Sunday, which came to be called: “The Sunday for the leaving-off of white garments.” It is believed that the day came to be called Low Sunday in this country because of the insistence on lowliness and childlikeness in the introit of the day’s Mass.

Low Sunday could be an occasion   for the renewing of baptismal vows. The story of this Sunday, “in albis depositis” could first be explained to them, then the ceremony of baptism, then the promises that were undertaken on their behalf by their godparents. One could make the baptismal promises once more, this time on their own behalf.

RENEWAL OF BAPTISM
The ceremony for this can be found below:

Pr.: What do you ask of the Church of God? 

Members: Faith.

P.: What does faith bring you to? 

M.: Life everlasting.

P.: If, then, you desire to enter into life, keep the commandments: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

M.: Amen.

P.: Do you renounce Satan? 

M.: I do renounce him. 

P.: And all his works? 

M.: I do renounce them. 

P.: And all his pomps? 

M.: I do renounce them. 

P.: Do you believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth?

M.: I do believe.

P.: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born into this world and suffered for us?

M.: I do believe.

P.: Do you believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting? 

M.: I do believe.

P.: Pray, then, kneel down and say the “Our Father.”

Kneeling, everyone says slowly together the “Our Father.” Everyone participating then takes a lighted candle and says:

P.: Receive this burning light, and without fail be true to your baptism, that when our Lord shall come to claim his own you may be worthy to meet him, together with all the saints in the heavenly court, and live for ever and ever.

M.: Amen.

P.: Receive the sign of the cross upon your forehead and also in your heart, and in your manners be such that you may now be the temple of God.

M.: Amen. 

P.: Peace be with you.

M.: And with your spirit.

All stand with the burning candles in their hands and conclude with a hymn.

 ~A Candle is Lighted, Imprimatur 1954~

Abstinence in Paschaltide

April 5, 2024 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Easter, Fasting and Abstinence Leave a Comment

On Fridays, we commemorate Our Lord’s passion and death. 

We are still bound to abstain from meat each Friday in the entire year. This is required not just in Lent but also during the season of Pascaltide — even on Friday in the Octave of Easter.



Under the traditional rules (1917 Code of Canon Law) the dispensation from abstaining from meat on Fridays occurred only when that day was a Holy Day of Obligation, thus like a Sunday (fasting is not permitted).

Even on Easter Friday abstinence from meat was still observed (before 1966, under the pain of mortal sin).

Easter Friday is not a feast of precept (i.e., a Holy Day of Obligation) and neither is any Friday in the Pascal Season between Easter Sunday and Trinity Sunday. The 1917 Code of Canon Law outlined the rules of fasting and abstinence in Canons 1250-1254.



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Prayer to Jesus Christ Crucified:

My good and dear Jesus, I kneel before you asking you most earnestly to engrave upon my heart a deep and lively faith, hope, and charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm resolve to make amends. As I reflect upon your five wounds and dwell upon them with deep compassion and grief, I recall the words the prophet David spoke long ago concerning yourself: they have pierced my hands and my feet, they have numbered all my bones!

#octaveofeaster #eastertide #pascaltide #jffeaster #liturgicalcalendar #catholichomeschool #traditionalcatholic #1917codeofcanonlaw #tradcatholic #traditionalcatholicism

Happy Low Sunday

April 16, 2023 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Easter Leave a Comment

We had good family fun making these sweet treats for our family Easter celebration on the First Sunday after Easter — we celebrate every Sunday of Easter in a special way.

How do you celebrate during Eastertide (50 days after Easter Sunday)?

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Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who have completed the paschal solemnities may, through Thy merciful bounty, ever retain them in our life and conversation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.

– Collect of Low Sunday

📸Our first ever Easter Lamb Cakes. The first is a traditional one made from a lemon bundt cake with candid fruit and dusted with powder sugar.
The second is a Rice Krispies cake with candy embellishments. Both were made per my children’s ideas and help.

Thanks to Therese @kolbeslittleflowers for the prompting to make these cakes for her Easter Lamb Cake contest.

Easter Hymn

April 9, 2021 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Easter Leave a Comment


We’ve been meditating on the Victimae Paschali Laudes — an ancient chant that tells the story of death and life locked in a struggle, wherein Christ, the Paschal victim, victorious over death, reconciles us to the Father. It tells the story of Mary Magdalene, who upon finding the empty tomb of the risen Christ and of finding the clothes which once covered his head and limbs, proclaims “Christ my hope has arisen.”

Victimae Paschali Laudes is one of the medieval sequences that were preserved in the Missale Romanum published in 1570 after the Council of Trent (1545-1563), this poetic liturgical hymn continues to be sung at the Tridentine Mass on Easter Sunday and through its Octave. The Easter sequence, attributed to Wipo of Burgundy (✞ 1048).

Victimae Paschali Laudes

Latin & English (literal)

Victimae paschali laudes

immolent Christiani.   

-Let Christians offer sacrificial

praises to the Passover victim.

Agnus redemit oves:

Christus innocens Patri

reconciliavit peccatores.   

-The lamb has redeemed the sheep:

The Innocent Christ has reconciled

the sinners to the Father.

Mors et vita duello

conflixere mirando:

dux vitae mortuus,

regnat vivus.   

-Death and life contended

in a spectacular battle:

the Prince of life, who died,

reigns alive.

Dic nobis Maria,

quid vidisti in via?   

-Tell us, Mary, what did

you see on the road?

Sepulcrum Christi viventis,

et gloriam vidi resurgentis   

-“I saw the tomb of the living Christ

and the glory of his rising,

Angelicos testes,

sudarium, et vestes.   

-The angelic witnesses, the

clothes and the shroud.”

Surrexit Christus spes mea:

praecedet suos [vos] in Galilaeam.   

-“Christ my hope is arisen;

into Galilee, he will go before his own.”

[Credendum est magis soli

Mariae veraci

Quam Judaeorum Turbae fallaci.] *   

-[Happy they who bear the witness

Mary’s word believing

above the tales of Jewry deceiving.] *

Scimus Christum surrexisse

a mortuis vere:

tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere.

-We know Christ is truly risen from the dead!

To us, victorious King, have mercy!

[Amen.] [Alleluia.]   

-Amen. [Alleluia.]

* The section beginning “Credendum est,” with its pejorative reference to the Jews, was deleted in the 1570 missal, which also replaced “praecedet suos (his own)” with “praecedet vos (you)”, and added “Amen” and “Alleluia” to the end.

Easter Greetings

April 4, 2021 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Easter, Family Easter Leave a Comment


Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia!

We have made things pretty, are rejoicing, and enjoying some goodies. But we ultimately seek to keep the spirit of Easter.

We pray to make this brief time, here in the vale of tears, fruitful. We pray that His joy and hope of Easter remind us always of Our Lord’s desire that we remain united to Him here on earth & in heaven. May we take this responsibility seriously, celebrate this season properly, and look forward to the day when all sorrows shall end!

Easter 2021

St. John Chrysostom, in his famous Easter sermon, teaches us something of the true spirit of Easter:

“…Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness;
Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed;
Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave;
Let no one fear death, for the Savior’s death has set us free.

O death, where is thy sting
O Hades, where is thy victory?

Christ is risen, and you are overthrown!
Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen!
Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen, and life reigns!
Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb!”

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Easter Vigil. 8 Hours (not including the yard work that Dad and the boys did at church in the morning) — left at 2pm for Church, the sacred ceremonies started at 6.

🔥 THE NEW FIRE & THE GRAINS OF INCENSE

🕯 THE PASCHAL CANDLE

📖 THE (TWELVE) PROPHECIES

🎶 THE LITANY

➕THE MASS

With no real pictures to share of the Easter Vigil and the glorious sacred ceremonies, I leave you with a blessed jubilation out of the mouth of a babe (post-Communion).

Our little one could not contain his joy! We cherish the “A” word in our home and it is a sweet consolation to see that he has a growing devotion to it as well.

The Alleluia, which means “Praise God”, is a song of jubilation and is repeated six times (in the Easter Vigil), to give praise to each of the Three Divine Persons, first by the Celebrant and then by the people. The reason for such joy is shown in the verse Confitémini which follows the Alleuia.

Ps. 117,1 Confitémini Dómino, quó- niam bonus: quóniam in sæculum mi- sericórdia eius.

V. Ps. 117,1 Give praise to the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever.

Here is a brief commentary on the Easter Vigil:

The Easter Vigil is the symbol of the expectation of the Divine Judge. He has warned us that he will come as a thief in the night, and since the most important affair of our life is at stake – our eternal salvation – no precaution is to be considered excessive when it comes to disposing us to that tremendous instant on which our eternity depends. The ancients, during the Easter Vigil, awaited the fulfillment of the longed for parousia of the Redeemer.

We know nothing about the time when it will come; we only know that it will come when we least expect it. Though it is not only the parousia that is sudden; during a Christian’s day, Jesus comes to us so many times, suddenly, with His graces: what misery to let them go unnoticed! They pass and do not return. A grace that God offers us today, and which we allow to go to waste, will be like a precious treasure that – because of our lack of response – is lost forever.➕

Alleluia!!

May the Resurrection of Our Lord give us special graces to see, to judge, and to act as He expects in this present-day Passion of Holy Mother Church. ➕

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Hi! I'm Lena, mama of JOYfilledfamily.
We are a traditional Catholic family striving to live for Jesus Christ in everything we do. We pray to completely surrender our will to His and to become His servants. Our mission of this blog is to share our JOY.

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