"Everything we have done as a family during the forty days of Lent has led us to this day.  It is time for rejoicing! It is appropriate to bring out the very best of everything for the feast of Easter Day.  Flowers, china, the works. If you can, though, have food that doesn't take a lot of last minute preparation, so that instead of fretting too much in the kitchen, like Martha, you have time to rejoice with Jesus, like Mary." 

                                                    LENT AND EASTER A SOURCEBOOK FOR FAMILIES
                                                                Helen Hull Hitchcock