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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Saint Patrick/Saint Joseph Days 2021

Our church encouraged people to make a Saint Joseph's Day altar. We started early and let Saint Patrick try out the "first draft" of the altar. After finishing decorating, I added one extra touch. Can you tell the difference between the two pictures below?

Initial altar

What's new?

We followed our usual tradition of making Guinness beef stew, which cooks in a crock pot all day long. It came out beautifully and I am looking forward to many yummy leftovers. 

Stewing the beef

Finished product

The altar was transformed on March 18 to a Saint Joseph Altar, with many of the typical trimmings. We added bread, cookies and fruit, along with a bowl of breadcrumbs to represent the sawdust. We didn't have any fava beans so we had to improvise.

Saint Joseph Altar

Another fun Saint Joseph tradition is to bake bread in the shape of carpenter's tools (since Joseph was a carpenter). We took a picture of the pre-baked dough in case the shapes got out of shape during baking.

The "A" is supposed to be a compass

Finished products

We went to Savage Mill for a post-Saint Patrick's Day demonstration of Irish Dancing by the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance

High-stepping fun

Whoops, this picture is pretty much the same as the first!

We had a fun pair of holy days in the middle of our Lenten observance.

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