The Season of Ordinary Time

Hello and welcome! I'm Ashley, and my mission is to guide you in celebrating the rich tapestry of the liturgical year in your own home. Whether you're new to liturgical living or seeking to deepen your existing practices, you've come to the right place. Here, you'll find a treasure trove of devotions, traditions, and activities designed to enrich your faith and family life. From the history and meaning of feast days to delicious recipes and crafts for the whole family, I'm excited to share this fulfilling journey with you!

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The Feat of St. Mary Magdalene,
July 22nd

On the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, we celebrate a faithful follower of Jesus and the Apostle to the Apostles.

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There’s something sacred about the kitchen table. Not just on feast days or special occasions, but in the ordinary hours of an ordinary Wednesday, when someone’s late, the toddler only wants toast, and there’s a spill under someone’s chair (again). Even in that chaos, or maybe especially in it, God is present. And He’s teaching us how to see Him in the breaking of the bread.

In this first day of The Slow Work of God, we’re starting at the table. Because that’s where discipleship often begins, not with a grand gesture, but with daily bread.

🍽️Comment “Daily Bread” for more + my free meal time blessings pdf.

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In a world that’s always rushing toward the next thing, Ordinary Time invites us to stay awhile. To let our faith stretch out and grow slowly. To recognize God not just in the high holy days, but in the everyday routines of meals, prayers, work, and rest.

So this summer, I want to invite you into something special:

The Slow Work of God: Embracing Ordinary Time at Home

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a series of reflections and practices to help you bring the beauty and depth of Ordinary Time into your home. These are not grand or complicated things, just small, intentional rhythms that create space for faith to flourish in the middle of your real, ordinary life.

🌸Comment “More” for the full post!

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Peaches are in season now so what better way to celebrate Ordinary Time than with an extraordinary homemade Peach Pie?

This is without a doubt the best Peach Pie recipe I’ve ever had! You are going to love it!

🥧 Comment “Peach Pie” for the recipe! 🥧

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Happy first day of July!

This is such a fun month in the Liturgical Year as we move through the longest season of the church year, Ordinary Time! It’s the beautiful season where we rest, play, and let our roots grow deeply. I can’t wait to celebrate it with you!

🌿Comment “July” for the full post + helpful links!

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Celebrating the Liturgical Year is one of the most meaningful for our family. It molds us and shapes us more and more into the people God created us to be.

If you’d like to celebrate the Liturgical Year in your home, I’ve created a free PDF of the 2024-2025 Liturgical Year Calendar.

Simply print it out and add the dates to your calendar of choice. That way you’ll always know what important dates are coming up and you feel prepared.

🕯️ Comment “calendar” for the free download. 🕯️

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Today is the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul!

The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is a momentous occasion in the liturgical calendar, honoring two significant figures in Christian history. These apostles played pivotal roles in spreading the Gospel and shaping the early Church. We celebrate both men on the same day since they were martyred around the same time in 67 AD.

❤️Comment “feast day” for meaningful ways to celebrate this day in your home!

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The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is coming up on June 29th!

Here’s a fun and easy way to celebrate the day - since St. Paul was a tentmaker by trade, make tents out of sheets and blankets!

⛺️ Comment “tents” to learn more about this special day + ways to celebrate it in your home! ⛺️

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The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is coming up!

Since Peter was a fisherman and Paul was a tentmaker, make a fun snack of goldfish and chocolate graham cracker tents!

⛺️ 🐟 Comment “tents & fish” for my full post on this special day + how to celebrate it in your home + a tutorial on the tents!

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Happy Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist! Also known as the Summer Christmas, Nativity of the Forerunner, or Johnmas (I love that one!), the Nativity of John the Baptist is the special day that we celebrate the birth of John the Baptist.

🍯Comment “John” to learn more about this special day +ways to celebrate it in your home.

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Get ready to celebrate! This Tuesday, June 24, we celebrate the Nativity of John the Baptist!

There are only three birthdays that the Church celebrates and John the Baptist’s is one of them! Why? Because he prepared the way of the Lord and Jesus himself said that there was no greater prophet than he.

Since John the Baptist baptized with water, one of the ways to celebrate is with water! Set up a sprinkler, get your water guns out, go jump in a lake or fill up your water balloons! It’s time to get wet and celebrate the birth of John the Baptist!

Comment “balloons” for more ideas for celebrating this special day!

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The Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist is coming up! Since he was famous for eating locusts and wild honey, celebrate by making this incredible Rustic Honey Cake. Make sure to drizzle it with lots and lots of honey! It’s so good!

🍯 Comment “honey cake” for the recipe + full post. 🍯

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So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12:1

As we walk through the season of Ordinary Time, I’m trying to recognize the profound beauty and sacredness found in the ordinary moments of my life. I’m reading A Theology of the Ordinary right now and the opening scripture from the book is this verse I shared from Romans. It really had a huge impact on me! I’m always thinking that I need to do something momentous, something incredible for God; and that the everyday is somehow not important.

Today, I wanted to share some of my favorite books that invite us to embrace the ordinary and celebrate the holiness of everyday life.

Comment “books” for the complete list + links!

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This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the special day set aside to celebrate and reflect on the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

Comment “Trinity” for my full post + all of the beautiful (and fun!) ways to celebrate this special day in your home.

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As we find ourselves in the season of Ordinary Time, I’ve been reflecting on how we can nurture our children’s spiritual growth. Like the seeds we plant in our gardens, our children’s faith needs to be tended, watered, and given plenty of sunshine to flourish. And one of the best ways to do this is through Christian children’s books.

These books, filled with stories of God’s love, plant the seeds of faith in their hearts. They help our children understand the teachings of the Lord in a language they can understand and are also like the gentle rain that nourishes the seeds.

📚Comment “books” for the list!

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Happy Feast of St. Barnabas!

Today we celebrate a great leader in the early church who advocated for Paul, radically gave to the good of the church, planted churches and encouraged those around him!

Comment “St. Barnabas” for my full post on him + easy ways to celebrate him in your home.

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On June 11th, we celebrate the Feast of St. Barnabas, a true pioneer of the early church. St. Barnabas may not be as well known as Peter or Paul, but his faithfulness, generosity, and encouragement changed the course of the Church. He reminds us that sometimes the most powerful witness comes not from preaching, but from believing in others, walking beside them, and quietly helping them grow in Christ.

There’s a charming tradition from Glastonbury, England, that a walnut tree in the abbey churchyard would only bud on St. Barnabas’ Day. Celebrate with a simple walnut streusel coffee cake, perfect for breakfast or afternoon tea as you remember this faithful saint.

❤️Comment “cake” for my full post + recipe.

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Happy Pentecost Day!

The Day of Pentecost is one of the highest feast days in the liturgical year. It is the day that we remember and celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. This pivotal moment in Christian history is the fulfillment of Christ’s promise to send a helper, a comforter, who would empower and guide his followers after his Ascension into heaven. The descent of the Holy Spirit transformed the lives of the followers of Jesus, emboldened them to preach the Gospel, and marked the beginning of the Christian mission in the world.

🔥Comment “Pentecost” to learn more about this special day + ways to celebrate it in your home! 🔥

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Pentecost is almost here! 🔥

It’s the special day that we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church.

Celebrate this special day in your home by making these adorable Pentecost Fruit Flames! All you need are bananas, clementines, and strawberries! How easy is that and it’s sure to put a smile on your children’s faces!

Come, Holy Spirit, Come! 🕊️

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Pentecost is this Sunday!

The Day of Pentecost is one of the highest feast days in the liturgical year. It is the day that we remember and celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. This pivotal moment in Christian history is the fulfillment of Christ’s promise to send a helper, a comforter, who would empower and guide his followers after his Ascension into heaven. The descent of the Holy Spirit transformed the lives of the followers of Jesus, emboldened them to preach the Gospel, and marked the beginning of the Christian mission in the world.

🔥❤️Comment “Pentecost” for my full post + recipes, links, and tutorials!

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This Sunday, we begin a new liturgical season - Ordinary Time.

As we step into the season of Ordinary Time, often called the season after Pentecost or Trinitytide, it is important to remember that there is nothing “ordinary” about it. This season, which follows the great feasts of Easter, is not a time of lesser importance but rather a time of deepening, an invitation to live out the mysteries we have just celebrated. The liturgical calendar is not simply a cycle of remembrance, but a path of formation, shaping us into a people who carry Christ’s presence into the world. Ordinary Time, then, is the season in which we learn to walk as disciples, growing in faith, hope, and love.

🌳Comment “Ordinary Time” to learn more about this special season + meaningful ways to celebrate it in your home.

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Happy second day of June!

This is such a fun month in the Liturgical Year as we finish moving through the 50-day celebration of the resurrection, also known as the season of Easter and begin the longest season of the church year, Ordinary Time! I can’t wait to celebrate it with you!

🌿Comment “June” for the full post + helpful links!

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Happy Feast of the Visitation!

The Feast of the Visitation commemorates the joyous encounter between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, as described in the Gospel of Luke. This feast highlights Mary’s journey to the hill country of Judea to share the news of her miraculous pregnancy and to support Elizabeth, who was expecting John the Baptist. The Visitation is this incredible moment of recognition and celebration of God’s work, marked by Elizabeth’s prophetic greeting and Mary’s Magnificat, a song of praise for God’s mercy and faithfulness. It is also a moment of profound connection between two faithful women, both miraculously blessed by God.

🦋Comment “Visitation” to learn more about this special day + ways to celebrate it in your home + the recipe for Blueberry Galette.

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The Feast of the Visitation is almost here! Celebrate with a Blueberry Galette!

A galette is a French free-form pastry that is so easy to make and is absolutely incredible. Since we’re celebrating Mary and her color is blue, I thought a Blueberry Galette would be the perfect dessert!

🫐Comment “Blueberry” for the recipe!

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Happy Ascension Day!

Today we celebrate and remember Jesus’ bodily ascent into heaven and its profound significance for our lives!

🌧️Comment “Ascension” for the full post on this day - the scriptures, the meaning + easy ways to celebrate it in your home.🌧️

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Light, airy, and cloud-like, Divinity is the perfect confection to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension, a day when the Church remembers Christ’s rising into heaven. This traditional Southern candy, made by whipping egg whites with hot sugar syrup, has a delicate, ethereal texture that beautifully symbolizes the cloud that received Jesus from the disciples’ sight. Its bright white color and melt-in-your-mouth sweetness offer a tangible, celebratory reminder of the glory and mystery of this feast. Making Divinity requires attention and patience, much like the disciples’ watching and waiting, and becomes a fitting way to mark the day with reverence and joy.

☁️ Comment “Divinity” for the recipe!

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Celebrating Ascension Day in your home doesn’t have to be hard! Try these three simple things to celebrate the feast of the Ascension in your home.

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The Rogation Days begin this Sunday! They are beautiful days set aside to

•recognize that the bounty that we take for granted is from the Lord
•offer thanks for the bounty
•pray for the harvest that comes from the land and the sea
•pray for the laborers and farmers that bring in the harvest
•pray for a blessing over the boundaries of our homes and churches.

🌿If you’d like the special prayer for each rogation day, comment “rogation” and I’ll send you the link!🌿

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Rogation Days begin this Sunday! They are a beautiful time set aside to ask (rogare in Latin) for God to bless the source of our food; the land, the sea, and those who labor so that we might be fed.

🍅 🫛If you’d like to celebrate these special days, comment “Rogation” for my free guide with the special prayers, recipes and activities. 🍅🫛

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The Church’s calendar is a gift. It’s not a burden or just “extra credit” for the very pious. It’s a way to let the life of Jesus shape our actual days, not just our beliefs. When we mark time with the Church, we’re invited to step into a deeper, slower rhythm that forms us in love.

And here’s the thing: the Church year meets us right where we are. Whether you’re single, raising little ones, homeschooling, working full time, or somewhere in between, there are simple, meaningful ways to live this out in your home.

❤️Ready to begin? Comment “church year” for my favorite resources to help get you started!

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We’re still celebrating Easter over here! Here are my favorite additions to my front door - gray and white striped market tote + a bundle of dried lavender.

See my stories for the links!

From the first Easter morning to the present day, Christians around the world have hailed each other with the Easter Greeting:

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!

Each part of the Easter Greeting is packed with meaning!

🌸 click the link in bio to learn more! 🌸

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Let’s make the best banana pudding you’ll ever try!

I’m an adventurous eater and I’m from the South so I should love banana pudding. But it is one of the few things that I will not touch. Maybe it’s the boxed banana pudding with the artificial banana flavor, the eggy meringue or the chemically Cool Whip. Who knows but it’s gross. 🤢

I really wanted to try my hand at a truly homemade banana pudding (minus the Nilla wafers - I don’t have that much time on my hands!) and I am so pleased with the results!

Rich homemade vanilla custard and whipped cream plus a kick of sour cream to cut the sweet take it to the next level! This is a banana pudding I can get behind!

❤️Comment “recipe” and I’ll send you the link! ❤️

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As I began my journey through the liturgical year, I often wondered how we got the food traditions that we have. For instance, why do we eat watermelon at the Feast of St. Bartholomew? Why do we eat Cuccia made from wheat berries for the Feast of St. Lucia? The answer is actually quite simple - because those things were in season at the time of the feast!

🕯️Comment “seasonal”for my full post on seasonal foods in liturgical celebrations! 🕯️

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We are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus for 50 days! 50 days of feasting and celebrating! One of the ways I love to celebrate the Easter season is with flowers.

Lately, I’ve seen all of these gorgeous pictures of blossoming branches in vases in people’s homes.

Unfortunately, I live in a coastal area where we don’t have a lot of blossoming fruit trees, so I decided to make this tissue paper cherry blossom arrangement and create my own version of the blooming branches. Every time I walk past it, I’m reminded of the glorious resurrection that we are celebrating.

🌸Comment “Cherry blossoms” for the simple step by step instructions!

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Let’s make Tiramisu! What better way to practice resurrection in our homes than to make an incredible dessert that makes your mouth sing!

Have you made tiramisu before? If you haven’t, it’s a classic Italian dessert layered with coffee-soaked ladyfingers, a creamy cheese and vanilla custard layer, and homemade whipped cream. It’s a simple and elegant dessert that is perfect for this Easter season of feasting and celebration!

Looking for the recipe? Comment “recipe” and I will send it to you!

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Happy first day of May!

There are so many wonderful feast days this month as we continue through the season of Easter!

🌿Comment “May” for all of the special days + helpful links to help you prepare.

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Happy Feast of St. Phillip and St. James!

St. Philip and St. James were both early followers of Jesus and are considered to be two of Jesus’ twelve apostles but little is known about them beyond that. We celebrate them on the same day because even though they died at different times and in different places, their bodies were moved and brought to the Church of the Twelve Apostles in Rome.

❤️Comment “disciples” for meaningful ways to celebrate this day in your home.

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How do we practice resurrection when we still have jobs to do and laundry to fold?

Simple! With a song of praise in our hearts!

Celebrating the resurrection doesn’t have to be hard. It can be as easy as listening to your favorite worship songs as you wash dishes or meditating on the love of the Lord as you fold laundry.

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The Season of Easter lasts for 50 days! 50 days of feasting and “practicing resurrection” in our home!

One of the best ways to practice resurrection in our homes is by reading wonderful books on Easter to our children. The books are a powerful teaching tool to help children understand what Easter is all about and to help them remember that we are in a season of praise and thanksgiving for the resurrection of Jesus.

Today I wanted to share eight of my favorite children’s books for Easter that your family can use during the season. I hope they are a blessing!

📚Comment “books” for the full list!

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Happy Feast of St. Mark!

Today we honor a faithful follower of Jesus who was discipled by Peter, wrote the Gospel of Mark, the first bishop of Alexandria and was martyred for his faith.

🌹Comment “Mark” this learn more about this special man + meaningful ways to celebrate him in your home like putting out red roses.

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Let’s make Risi e Bisi for the Feast of St. Mark!

In Venice, this feast day, honoring St. Mark, disciple of Peter and author of the Gospel of Mark, is celebrated by making Risi e Bisi (Rice and Peas).

Risi e Bisi is a warm, creamy risotto using peas, Parmesan cheese and bacon, lots of bacon! You’re going to love it!

🥓 Comment “Rice and Peas” for the recipe! 🥓

❤️ And follow me @ashleytumlinwallace for more ways to celebrate Christian traditions in your home! ❤️

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The Feast of St. Mark is almost here!

Today I’m sharing all St. Mark + simple ways to celebrate the day in your home + the recipe for Risi e Bisi, the delicious Venetian dish made on this day!

🌹Comment “Mark” for the link!

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A powerful and easy way to practice resurrection in my home is with flowers. I make sure to keep a bouquet or little mini bouquets on our kitchen table all through the season of Easter to remind us that we are celebrating.

Every time I walk through the room and see those flowers, I am immediately prompted to offer thanks and praise for all that was accomplished on my behalf through Jesus’ death and resurrection and I hope that the same is true for my husband and children as well!

For the little Easter flower arrangements that in the pictures, I used various sizes of canning or jelly jars, a bouquet of alstromerias from my grocery store, and a thrifted white tablecloth. Alstromerias are a very common flower bouquet sold in grocery stores. They are very inexpensive and when used by themselves, have a very sweet, simple look. I love them! Oh, and they last for a very long time!

🌸 Follow me @ashleytumlinwallace for more ways to celebrate your faith in your home. 🌸

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Since the death and resurrection of Jesus is the pinnacle of our faith, there is an entire season set aside to celebrate it. The season of Easter is a time of feasting and merrymaking that lasts for 50 whole days!

One great way to celebrate Eastertide is through food. Just as Christmas has traditional foods like fruitcake and gingerbread, Easter has its own special treats. Strawberry shortcake is one of my family’s must-haves during Easter. It’s light, fresh, and so, so good! And the best part? It’s actually effortless to make! Add sugar to sliced strawberries, make a quick shortcake, whip up some homemade whipped cream, and layer. It’s super simple!

Comment “Shortcake” for the recipe!

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Practice resurrection.

From Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry

For Christians, Easter is the most joyful and jubilant celebration of the entire year. It is the day of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and his triumph over sin and death.

This event is so miraculous that the celebration can’t possibly be contained in one day! That’s why Easter has a season of celebration known as the season of Easter.

During the season of Easter, we bask in the glory of the resurrection and celebrate the new life that we have in Christ. For 50 days, Christians around the world feast together, sing, and rejoice together in the resurrection of Our Lord and Savior. As Wendell Berry so vibrantly puts it, we “practice resurrection.” It is a deep and meaningful time that helps us to fully appreciate what Christ has accomplished for us.

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Happy Easter Monday!

Easter is not over! The resurrection of Jesus is so incredible, so life changing that its celebration can’t be contained in a single day! That’s why an entire season, the season of Easter has been devoted to the celebration!

🌼Comment “Easter Monday” to learn more about this special season, the week after Easter and the simple traditions of Easter Monday.

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Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!

The Christian Passover or Pasha is the high point of our Christian year. It should be the most joyful and jubilant celebration of the entire year. Because of Christ, we celebrate deliverance from evil and death and redemption into new life with Christians all over the world. We have been redeemed and will live forever with Christ, our King. This one day is the fulfillment of our entire liturgy. Every Sunday celebrates this day. This day is the gospel message that we preach to the world!

🌼If you’d like to read more about Easter and meaningful ways to celebrate it in your home, comment “Easter!”

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Holy Saturday - A day of waiting and quiet. Jesus lies in the tomb. The disciples are scattered, grieving. And yet, even now, God is at work. Christ descends to the dead, and the world holds its breath. This is the in-between space—before the resurrection, after the cross.

🖤Comment “Holy Saturday” for the full post + meaningful ways to mark the day in your home + a recipe for Resurrection Cookies.

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Good Friday is the most solemn day of the church year. It holds profound significance for Christians, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. We solemnly remember the sacrificial acts of Jesus, who bore the sins of humanity and “reconciled to himself all things, whether in heaven or on earth, making peace by the blood of his cross.” (Colossians 1:20)

As we commemorate Good Friday, we enter a period of profound reflection and reverence, pondering the immense weight of Christ’s sacrifice and the boundless depth of his love for us. Christians worldwide pause on this day to contemplate a pivotal moment in our salvation narrative when God’s immense love for us found full expression in Jesus’s sacrifice on a wooden cross.

🖤 Comment “Good Friday” for meaningful ways to mark this day in your home.

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On Good Friday, we enter a period of profound reflection and reverence, pondering the immense weight of Christ’s sacrifice and the boundless depth of his love for us. Traditionally, in order to fully contemplate this pivotal moment in our salvation story, people fasted until after the Good Friday service.

In England, after the service, the fast was broken with Hot Cross Buns. They originated at Saint Alban’s Abbey in 1361 when the monks distributed them to the poor. The tradition spread to Christians throughout England and is the food associated with Good Friday to this day.

✝️Type “Good Friday” in the comments for my full post on this special day + my incredible recipe for Hot Cross Buns!✝️

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