Happy, Happy Easter! What a glorious feast! I hope your day was fine and your Easter week is one filled with many blessings!
I have a gallery for you today but a few things first.
My new web address is http://www.finerfem.com. This is a lot easier than the wordpress one. If you still have the old one, it will redirect you to the proper site. But it is better you use the new one as this will help Google to recognize it. I have noticed that when you Google Finer Femininity now, because of the new address change, it is harder to find. This is the way I direct people to my site because it is simple (or used to be). So if you could please use this new address I would appreciate it!!
I am also very excited to introduce to you my new Finer Femininity App available on Androids and Iphones!!
My dear friend, Colette Abascal from Ocean Star Apps, put much time in building the App and I am very grateful to her! She is amazing!
Here is the link to her Website, Ocean Star Apps.
It’s a beautiful little App and I want to thank Colette for all her efforts!
Try it out!
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This is the latest video from Fr. VanderPutten….an example of the amazing tenacity and perseverance that goes into the building of a church in Nigeria! (Fr. VanderPutten is narrating).
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Easter thought for today:
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Here is the gallery for our Holy Week and Easter! Click on the first picture to view. There are captions included.
As I looked at these pictures I noticed that it looked like Easter was painting eggs and having fun….and it was! But our Faith permeated it all. We went to the Easter Triduum which was so beautiful. The solemnities, the Masses, the Traditions that date back to ancient times are all wrapped up in our Easter and lay the foundation for the festivities.
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- Enjoying the nice weather at Mike and Jeanette’s creek.
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- Colin and Z’s little people. Zelie has just learned to hop on the back of Isaac’s scooter and they tootle about the yard. cute!
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- Sometimes life is just too exhausting….
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- Magdalene’s sunny smile!
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- Vinnie holds his niece, Rita Mary.
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- Praying the Mercy Chaplet.
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- Holy Saturday. Gemma insists on photo-bombing my pictures so I have warned her I would publish one. This one is mild….she’s fortunate.
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- Easter egg painting with Agnes!
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- Egg painting at Theresa’s home.
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- Egg painting at Gin’s home.
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- Lots of participation at Gin’s!
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- Jeanette made this pretty Easter bonnet for Magdalene!
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- One of the Easter bonnets that Gin made.
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- Gin’s Easter Bunny is ready!
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- Angelo bought me these for Easter. We say the Angelus before the evening meal and I like to ring the bells for it.
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- Getting ready for the Easter vigil. Margy has borrowed my Easter decorations for her hair!
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- Easter ‘do!
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- Another Easter ‘do!
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- Accented by a handcrafted wire headband made by a friend. She makes the wire petals and fills them in with nail polish! Clever!
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- Just before Easter vigil. These dresses were purchased at Thrift stores and most were strapless with a bolero over top. Lovely!
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- Colin takes a picture of his beautiful wife, Z, and their lovely family before Easter Sunday Mass…
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- Virginia and Elizabeth (Z)
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- Vincent and I after Easter Mass.
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- Devin and Theresa’s family.
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- Vin and Gin’s family.
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- Easter Sunday.
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- Happy Easter from the girls!
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- Lots of activity Easter morning!
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- We went up to Grandma’s apartment (my mom) to sing for her and my sister.
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- I told Angelo many years ago that one day he would be too big to sit on my lap. Well, he reminds me of that now and again but it hasn’t happened yet!
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- Mom and Margy having a good time.
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- Mom and Margy….Grandma is such a friend to everyone!
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- And one of my dearest and best friends!
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- Ummmm….it was raining outside on Easter…but really?? Frisbee in the house!!!???
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- Lots of girls!
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- Mary Ann came for Easter dinner along with many other friends!
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- Ron wore his authentic Austrian outfit.
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- Lots of food….lots of friends!
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- Oh boy! Time for the Easter egg hunt. It stopped raining enough that we could have one…in spite of the mud!
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- Agnes is put on the trampoline to get an egg “hiding” there.
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- She wipes out and all her eggs go flying! It would have made a great video!! 😀
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- Playing new frisbee game…this time outside!
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- Looking for eggs…
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- Hannah and Rita.
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- Rosie helps Magdalene get the egg!
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- Agnes is enjoying her loot!
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- Showing Isaac the egg in the tree.
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- Big people help by shaking it down!
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- Grace and Agnes discussing their wares.
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- Sarah and Hannah
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- The guys play amidst the Easter Egg Hunt.
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- I know that egg is somewhere, says Nathan.
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- Oops! Down it goes!
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- Searching, searching….
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- I really think I have more than you!
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- Margy helps.
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- Theresa is the most enthusiastic and the most excited! She makes the best Easter Bunny!
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- Uh-oh! There is one egg on that tree…and TWO boys! Should be interesting…
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- Gemma helps Nathan discover the goodies in the eggs.
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- Mike and Jeanette.
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- Paul dislikes his picture taken. Therefore I work hard at getting a photo. I snuck up on him!
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- Daddy enjoy the hunt as much as the kids….and makes the most noise!
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- Ok, time to look over the treasures!
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- Virginia in her pretty yellow!
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- Mike, Juliette, Magdalene.
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- Games
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- Sarah and Dom
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- Juliette had a head-on collision with the Easter Bunny!
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- The Infant of Prague is dressed in His Easter silks and velvets with aromatic hyacinth adorning His little altar!
A lovely Easter Tuesday to you! We had nice weather too…looks like fun…a magnificent feast!
Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful Easter celebrations with us, Leane! Please let Fr. Vanderputten know Ian & Paula Rutherford are still prying for him! I just showed my 6-y-o son the video, and he is very impressed!
So nice! Easter is such a great feast!!
My favourite kind of post 🙂 Happy Easter!
Thank you for the Easter wishes. And to you as well. Your blog and family are so inspiring to me! We do not have a Traditional Mass near us and we are a lonely little family in a small place with no Catholic culture. Your blog is a daily encouragement.
I have signed up for the App and it is beautiful! Thank you for all that you do!
Dearest Leane! Thank you for your wonderful friendship, and especially for your joyful example of Catholic family life. It was very inspiring to work on your Finer Femininity App. May it be shared by many so that more souls can benefit from your apostolate!
Even though I am late, I found this entry while searching for something about Easter and I really love the picture! Just a genuine family love:)