
Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous: The Prince of life, who died, regins immortal.
Then home to brunch, where we preface grace before meals by shouting The Lord is risen, alleluia! He is truly risen alleluia! This is the day the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad alleluia! We'll do that before meals every day this week. It's just about my favorite Easter custom.
My second favorite is to live off leftovers from yesterday's Easter dinner for the rest of the week--a much needed custom after several days of much prayer, shopping, cooking, and not too much sleep. Think I'll go curl up right now with a good novel (G.K. Chesteron's Manalive, newly reissued by Ignatius Press), and if I lapse into a morning nap, so much the better.
If anyone is actually here today, share your favorite way to keep Easter Joy alive during this octave week. I'm always up for new ideas (so long as they are easy to implement for a happy but tired woman) for celebrating the best week of the year.
I was going to say we don't really have any Easter customs beyond our customs for the day itself. And then I remembered we do have one easy to implement custom. Our family custom is to pray the Angelus at noon and six (I set an alarm on my phone to remind me.) during Easter we sing the Regina Caeli instead. We do this for the whole Easter season. I usually add it to the bedtime lullaby rotation as well.
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