"Why Is this Night Different from Any Other Night?"
This is a question asked – and answered – during the Seder meal, the festive beginning of Passover. One of our parish’s Lenten traditions has been to share in a Seder celebration. Our RCIA and Confirmation candidates host this festival meal that Jesus and his disciples shared — a meal that is still celebrated by Jewish families today. We participate with our parish family by joining in a meal that recognizes the Biblical roots we share with the Jews.
Soup Supper
During Lent, we are asked to make a commitment to seek a deeper spirit of penitential conversion.
The real purpose of fast and abstinence is to help us "develop the inner freedom to resist." Having a Lenten (meatless) Soup Supper has been a way to bring such abstinence to our awareness. Our first such gathering was based on the children’s tale “Stone Soup”, where everyone in the village added something to the pot to improve the soup’s flavor. At our Soup Suppers, parishioners bring soups that do not contain meat or meat stock, which we share as parish family, and canned goods to give to the city’s mobile soup kitchen. Such sharing reminds us that personal penance should reach out to the rest of the world through acts of charity and mercy.
"Why Is this Night Different from Any Other Night?"