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Flower Fast & Ordination Feast


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 church will be in penitential violet but the reception will be replete with flowers- 35 arrangements of gold, white and greens. 

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  1. Marie-JacquelineFebruary 24, 2020 at 3:23 PM

    Thanks for the image of your Mary garden. Best wishes for your big celebration!

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