Girlfriends, episode number 316, nine ideas for a blessed Holy Week.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you.

Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. This week, we are ready for Holy Week. I've got

some ideas to share with you. Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thanks for being here. Always glad to connect with you on the Girlfriend's podcast. We're going to be sharing some ideas for Holy Week because by the time this

episode publishes, it'll be Tuesday of Holy Week. How did that go by so quickly? Do I say this

every year? Yes. Am I still surprised every year

when time passes quickly and Lent is over before I know it? Yes. You know, at the end of Lent,

I think we have mixed feelings sometimes depending on how Lent has gone for us. You know,

we talked quite a bit earlier on in previous episodes about how like Lent isn't

like a little project where you're going to get a grade at the end of the day, right? It's really

an invitation into deeper relationship with your creator. And that's a lovely thing. So don't feel

like you can fail at Lent. Yes, you can fail to live up to your commitments. You

can fail to plan at all. But you can't just fail Lent. Lent is an invitation to relationship.

So let's approach Holy Week in the same way. No matter how you feel about how Lent went for you this

year, whether you were great

about keeping all of your commitments or if you fell off the rails, Holy Week is an opportunity to kind

of hit the reset button, you know, you can begin again. Holy Week is like a mini lent. You could look

at it that way, like a real, an opportunity to go deeper into

relationship with God, to go deeper with some of our prayers, our penances, our almsgiving,

our sacrifices in order to prepare ourselves and prepare our hearts for Easter, for receiving

Easter joy. That's a lovely invitation. So I want to encourage you wherever you find yourself this

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