Green Sundays: Latin Mass Altar Flowers for the Time after Pentecost

Altar arrangements for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost: light blue hydrangeas, orange crocosmia, centranthus, with breath of heaven and privet greens from my garden.

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Roses for Our Lady: Altar Flowers for the Nativity of the BVM

Altar flowers for the Traditional Latin Mass Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Roses, Queen Anne's lace, green poms and crocosmia greens.

Processional Litter & Flowers for the Feast of the Assumption

This year for the Feast of the Assumption, the pastor of our little country parish asked if I would help create a processional litter for the statue of Our Lady. He had the great idea of repurposing an old table! It seemed Our Lady was smiling down on me that day when I walked into the thrift store and there it was for twenty dollars: a perfect square, three foot, solid oak table. A few months ago, my kind friend, mentor, and owner of Altarations Paraments in Oregon sent me a box loaded with remnants of liturgical fabric. I added a white skirt around the bottom to hide the table legs and a carpenter attached brackets for the removable oak rods. I was a bit nervous about creating the arrangements for the litter. They needed to be as light as possible and secured to the litter to withstand being jostled about in the procession. I found four plastic oval platters at the dollar store, added a block of wet foam, taped it in place and created the arr...

First Solemn Mass Reception Flowers

The entry table arrangement. Read the first of this series of posts Extra-ordinary Day . The arrangments near the prie dieu used for the first blessings by the priest. Next read the Epilogue to an Extra-ordinary Day Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Borges Photography

Introibo- with Flowers

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