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For my Catholic family, Easter is one of our favorite holidays. In our faith, Easter Sunday marks the day when Jesus rose from the dead, symbolizing a renewal of faith and providing hope for eternal life. Growing up, my family marked the entire Holy week. We attended Mass, prayed together and also celebrated by dying eggs, making baskets filled with candy, and preparing a special meal for Easter Sunday. That meal was a big deal! My family honored Lent, a term which describes a period of time leading up to Easter. In my church, Lent began on Ash Wednesday, about six weeks before Easter. Many Catholics, including my family, observe Lent by not eating meat on Fridays during this period. My mom would remind us that the Lenten practice of giving up the pleasures of meat, or another thing we enjoyed, was one way we could remind ourselves of our faith.

I celebrate Easter with my own son in many of the same ways. I see it as an especially beautiful holiday—a celebration of faith and hope. It is also important to me as an opportunity to carry on much-loved  traditions, both from church and from my family. We always had a lot of guests coming for our Sunday Easter meal, and one of the ways my brothers and I helped prepare was to make Easter Eggs. These tie-dyed Easter eggs are an easy riff on the standard one-color method and gives eggs a muticolor pattern. 

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