Introibo- with Flowers

The Lenten season is here.  The last three Sundays Father requested no flowers for the traditional altar.  Lent is, of course, a flower-free season and the three Sundays preceding are optional according to the  traditional Sacristan's Manual . In lieu of altar arrangements I post a snapshot of our family's Mary garden.  As Fleur de Marie-Jacqueline points out daffodils are Mary's Star !  On the feast of the Annunciation (March 25) I will include this flower in the arrangements for the altar. Stay tuned:  my prolonged blogging absence is due to preparations for the priestly ordinations for our diocese on Ember Saturday.  Our TLM community will host a parish-wide reception for one of the ordinees on the occasion of his first Solemn High Latin Mass.  This is the second to be celebrated in our county since the 1960s!  (The first was on the Feast of Corpus Christi 2019.  A post on this and the baldacchino restoration project is forthcoming!) For the Solemn Mass the

For the Feast of the Purification I was inspired to include winter snowdrops after reading Fleur de Marie Jacqueline's post  Snowdrops for Candlemas .  Providentially, the property where I cut greenery had a nice little patch. The grocery store had a very scanty selection of white flowers.  There were roses and lilies in every imaginable color except white.  At a second store I picked up some poms and waxflower which I figured would "do" if nothing else could be had. In a last ditch effort, I made a third stop at the corner market where tulips and lilies are often sold from the local bulb farm.  There in the stand amidst the tulips was one bunch of perfectly-white, gorgeous roselilies! After debating whether or not to return the poms to the second store and select something with more contrast to the roselilies, I decided my time was running short and I needed to get the flowers to the church. The snowdrops were so delicate that I added them to the bottom fro