The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Sept. 14th What does today’s feast day celebrate? Overall, it is a celebration of God’s gift of salvation to mankind through remembering and honoring Jesus’ crucifixion, resurrection and ultimate defeat of death so that we can have eternal life in Heaven with Him. Today’s feast also commemorates when Saint Helena found the cross that Jesus was crucified upon, and when the basilica that was build upon Calvary, where Jesus’ was crucified, was deducted. Here is a great article I read that gives a good overview and background for today’s feast day. Today to celebrate this wonderful feast day, my family began our morning with “Eggs in the Cross” for breakfast. I used a cross shaped cookie cutter to cut crosses out of pieces of bread and placed them in a frying pan. I then poured eggs beaten with a little bit of milk into the cross cut outs and when they were finished cooking on both sides served them with grapes and/or strawberries. This w...
Ideas to celebrate the Liturgical Year of the Roman Catholic Church as a family and build your Domestic Church.