In the sixth episode of this series, Let’s Talk About Lent, and As Easter draws near, Fr Will and Sr Theresa Maria are excited to share their Easter family traditions, from attending Holy Week services to hosting family gatherings and Easter egg hunts. Despite facing challenges in Vietnam, where Easter was not officially recognised, Sr T’s family maintained their faith, and attended the Holy Week Masses in between school and work. Now in Australia, she carries on the tradition of organising egg hunts for children in the community.
Let’s Talk About Lent – Episode 6: What were your Easter traditions? – is available here:
Let’s Talk About Lent – Episode 6: What were your Easter traditions? – Transcript
Hi everyone I’m Fr Will. Hi I’m Sr T. And we here to talk to you guys about Lent! So Sr T, do you have any Easter traditions?
Yes, we do have Easter traditions as a Catholic family. So we all go, participate in the Holy Week from Palm Sunday and also during the Triduum we have the Last Supper Mass and then we have adoration until midnight, that’s all I remember and I love the Adoration until midnight. But also growing up in Vietnam, it’s a communist country. We also have a class and have school and work during Good Friday and even Easter Sunday. Because I usually have extra class on Sunday, but in our family we still go to Mass and we have a big celebration on Easter Sunday. That is all for me!
Yeah, we always used to gather together as a family after the Easter Sunday Mass and then just spend time together enjoying and having a little Easter hunt for the kids. And for the adults sometimes, only sometimes. But that was a way that we got together as a family too.
And so what is your Easter tradition? I actually have picked up so many Easter tradition for sixteen years in Australia. Especially I organise a lot of hunting for children, for kids, at church and our neighbourhood.
We hope that you guys enjoy your time. And that it’s a blessed Easter.