Palm Sunday in lockdown

[wiseheart]

It was very odd to attend to Palm Sunday Mass via television. Usually it is one of the most festive events of Easter time, with the Passion according to Matthew sung during Mass and the procession afterwards and all that. Well, they did sing the Passion - the cantor of the church where the Mass was from and two other guys sharing all roles between them - and the service was beautiful: simple, understated, very humane. But it was odd to see the empty church that should have been bursting with people on this day. Very, very odd.

And I felt oddly bereft not being able to listen to this hymn during procession. I haven't attended for many years, but this was what the Gregorian choir in the parish of my youth was always singing:

So I decided to spread some Palm Sunday cheer and left a small plate of cookies at the doorstep of my neighbours. With the Nutella bunnies and these little darlings:



Other than that, I made a few extras to the Doll House quiet books (shampoo bottles and suchlike) and worked a bit on the translation I might even get paid for (today was Mum's turn to cook), and I hung up my hand-painted egg shells in honour of the day. I also sent pictures to a lot of colleagues about the bunnies and the lambs, and they apparently liked them a lot.

Now I might try to post the next chapter of "The Sins of the Mothers" to AO3 and perhaps even translate a bit of "The Billion Year Voyage", just for fun. There's so much to do and so little time to do it. *sigh*

Comments

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Love the little black sheep!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Cute, aren't they? *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is odd without the church services - I still have my cross from last year though.

I do love the sheep.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)
And yeah, heading the Holy Week without church services - or with only virtual ones - is a very strange feeling. Even for me, despite not attending them for quite some years. But I still have fond memories from my youth and from my time in the cloister - those ceremonies are so timeless, they connect us with uncounted generations before us and makes us a family... in this time of the year I still miss them.

[meathiel]

Gregorian chants are so beautiful. I love to hear just the voices.

There are black sheep! 😁🐑

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Black sheep need love, too! *g*

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

how cute!
my neighbors are super stuck up, they would never leave me cookies

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I love to bake and I usually make an ungodly amount of various cookies both for Christmas and Easter, just for the fun of it. Then I give away two-thirds of it, or more, as gifts, because eating them all between Mum and me would be ruinous for our health. *g*

Right now circumstances don't support big baking orgies, so the neighbours are the only ones to benefit.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

What little cuties!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

You're a good neighbor.
I was working today, so not even online church, but I listened to the sone we always sing at the processional-which is the same one, I think.
We have people read out the passion usually, but today the deacon read it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, my neighbours are good, decent people with whom we've lived next door for decades. Such contacts one has to keep alive.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Enjoyed the chant recording, the voices are lovely. What a nice gift for your neighbors.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The Schola Hungarica used to be an excellent choir, growing out of the parish church of my youth, so I'm particularly fond of them.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I wish you were my neighbour. Those cookies look so sweet.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be your neighbour. Think about all the crafting we could do together - well, not now, obviously, but in other, more normal times.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

That is so true, not to mention when all goes pearshaped which it feels like it does. Thank heavens for the small mercies I meet. All I can do right now is to do my best, hopefully that is enough.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's all any of us can do, I think.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

So do I, give my regards to your mum. As long as I feel well I remain hopeful.