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Monday, April 17, 2017

Golden Easter Punch

Spring Parties, Easter Parties and Golden Easter Punch to celebrate the Season.

I learned this recipe helping in my children's school activities as volunteer mom.
Now as teacher, I make punch for spring activities or special occasions at home.
Let’s celebrate Spring/Easter with a Golden Punch and bilingual literature.

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Welcome Easter!

Welcome new Season,

With colors and golden punch,
Happy days to come!

Golden Easter Punch Recipe

http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2012/03/golden-easter-punch.html

Ingredients:
1 (46 ounce) can pineapple juice
1 (12 ounce) can orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 (6 ounce) can lemonade concentrate, thawed
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 (2 liter) bottle 7-up (or other carbonated lemon-lime beverage)
1 quart pineapple sherbet

Directions:
Mix juices and vanilla in a large punchbowl.

Add 7-up, stirring well.

Add sherbet just before serving.

Happy Golden Easter!

Maritza Martínez Mejía

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Mother, Educator, Bilingual Author and Translator

Recipient of the Crystal Apple Award 2006, VCB Poetry Winner 2015, The Latino Book Awards 2016 and Author’s Talk Book Show 2017. Five Books published and articles posted on Southern Writers Magazine and La Nota Latina. Graduated from Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in Commerce and Foreign Language and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities and Women’s Studies from Florida Atlantic University.
Maritza writes to inspire others to be a better person.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Welcome Easter!

Easter is the most important and oldest feast on the Christian Calendar. It is a celebration of hope and joy with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many Orthodox Churches base their Easter date on the Julian calendar, which often differs from Western Churches that use the Gregorian calendar.
This year 2016, Western Easter will be a week after the Spring/Fall equinox on March 27^th to May 15^th .The Orthodox Easter will begin on May 1^st.

Wherever calendar you follow, let’s begin Easter Season with a renewal spirit to become a better person.

Easter Activities for Kids

Read: The Resurrection - Luke 24: 1-11

ABC Order Cut & Paste: Resurrection of Christ

40 Easter Recipe

Visit:

This Easter, I will try to make a daily new dish, What is your favorite Easter Recipe?
Please share with us!

Happy Easter!

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Mexican Cascarones

What about Mexican Cascarones for Easter?

Like North American Easter Eggs, you dye and decorate them, but the best part of this Hispanic tradition; you remove the egg from the shell before decorating and replacing it with confetti. You can use the inside for any recipe. We made a Spanish Tortilla.

Legends originated the Cascarones in China and been brought to Europe by Marco Polo. In Italy they were used as a courting ritual, filled with perfume power. The custom traveled from Spain to Mexico in the mid 1800s by Emperor Maximilian’s wife. It was in Mexico that the perfumed powder was replaced with confetti. The Cascarones may be thrown or crushed over the recipient's head. That part we didn't do it.

In addition to Easter, Cascarones have become popular for occasions including birthdays, weddings, Day of the Dead, and Cinco de Mayo.

Reading for this month:

Dance of the Eggshells/Baile de Los Cascarones

By Carla Aragon, Kathleen Dee Saville (Illustrator), Socorro Aragon(Translator), George Gonzales (Translator)

A bilingual children's story that explores the family bond created through traditions passed on by grandparents.

For review visit: http://www.catherinespascha.com/the-dance-of-the-eggshells-a-review/

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Easter Sunday to Mercy Sunday Egg Shells

Easter egg hunts and bunnies activities are fun to celebrate, but the real reason of Easter is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Let’s focus on the symbols of the celebration from Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday and Mercy Sunday to create this simple activity: Use any pot and add:

1. Use a branch from Palm Sunday to create a Cross.

- Read Palm Sunday - Mark 11:1-10

2. Half plastic egg to represent the empty tomb.

- Read The Resurrection - Luke 24: 1-11

3. Other half of plastic egg to paste a Divine Mercy image.

– Read Jesus side is Pierced – John 19: 31-37

Have a blessed Mercy Sunday!

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Resurrection Eggs

Resurrection Eggs are my favorite way to explain the Easter Story. It is a visual way to walk through the Passion Sunday to Easter Sunday. Each egg contains a small trivia article intended to provide a reminder of a portion of the Biblical story.

You cake make your own Resurrection Eggs by using an egg carton, 12 plastic eggs and small items to represent the Easter Story. Or you can order yours at: Resurrection Eggs: The Easter Story with a Children Booklet.

Instructions

Put Eggs in order. Number the eggs with a marker or a sticky tab in the carton.
Read in order the Biblical Scripture. This will help children understand the meaning behind each Resurrection Egg.
After reading the Biblical passage, open the Egg.
Select your own way to open the eggs or have an Egg Hunt to find the Eggs.

My Resurrection Eggs Learning Activity to CCD class or Prayer Groups

Note: I did a little change to the Resurrection Eggs to follow the full Gospel truth.

Egg #1: Palm Sunday - Mark 11:1-10

Egg #2: Last Supper – Luke 22:14-20

Egg #3: Agony in the Garden - Luke 22: 39-46

Egg #4: Betrayal of Jesus - Luke 22: 47-52

Egg #5: Flagellation of Jesus- Luke 23: 13-23

Egg #6: Crown of Jesus - Mathew 27: 27-29

Egg #7: Jesus Carries the Cross – Luke 23:26

Egg #8: Gambled Jesus' clothes – Mathew 27: 27-31

Egg #9: Veronica wipes Jesus' face - Isaiah 53: 2-3

Egg #10: Nailing Jesus on the Cross – John 19: 17-27

Egg #11: Jesus side is Pierced – John 19: 31-37

Egg #12: The Burial of Jesus -Matthew 27:57-61
Egg #13: The Resurrection - Luke 24: 1-11

Reading Activity

1. Read Benjamin's Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs (2008)
to follow the story of the Resurrections Eggs

Comment about this book: This story goes along with the Egg's activity. If you are Catholic, this book has one sentence in the Last Supper section that refers to the Eucharist as "symbolic" rather than his actual flesh and blood, as in Catholic doctrine. Otherwise, this book is a great visual to teach the Easter Story.

2. Coloring Page Activity

Print the activities: http://www.mamaslearningcorner.com/easter-coloring-pages/

3. Cooking Activity

Recipes: http://dailydishrecipes.com/55-best-easter-pinterest-recipes-treats/

Enjoy the activities with children, family and friends.

Jesus is Alive! Have a Blessed Easter!

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A Traditional Polish Easter Basket

Polish parishioners have shared this early-medieval tradition with our Anglo community. This year, I adopted this richly symbolic custom and prepared my first Święconka, meaning the blessing of the Easter Baskets.

The Baskets contain a sampling of Easter foods to be blessed on Holy Saturday for gatherings on Easter Sunday.
The food in the Polish Easter Basket is similar to the Jewish Passover Menu.

Blessings to all your Easter food too!

Prepare Polish Easter Basket

The foods in the baskets have a symbolic meaning as follow:

Eggs - symbolize life and Christ's resurrection

Bread - symbolic of Jesus

Lamb - represents Christ

Salt - represents purification.

Horseradish - symbolic of the bitter sacrifice of Christ

Ham - symbolic of great joy and abundance

We are all connected in one way or another in faith and traditions.

This year, I selected these readings to celebrate diverse traditions during Easter's Sunday:

Compare and Contrast Reading Activities: