Liturgical Year : Activities : Purple Shrouds

Catholic Activity: Purple Shrouds

Supplies

purple cloth or cloth and purple dye

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Cost

$ $ $ $

For Ages

11+

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Dye pieces of cloth to make coverings for religious articles in your home on Passion Sunday.

DIRECTIONS

At the same time we dye little pieces of cloth to use as purple shrouds for our pictures and statues on Passion Sunday, as the shrouds are used in church. This is remind us that with Passion Sunday, the last most solemn and sorrowful weeks of Lent have begun. One year we dyed a square of fine soft wool to make a cope for our Infant of Prague. (Instruction: You will now throw out the dye, like a good girl. Else everyone in the family will be trying to dye things in purple.)

Activity Source: Year and Our Children, The by Mary Reed Newland, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, 1956