Families prepare baskets with the food they will eat on Easter morning - decorated eggs, sausage, ham, bacon, a loaf of bread with a cross cut into the crust, cheese, salt, horseradish, and butter carved in the shape of a lamb. The baskets are brought to the parish church today to be blessed by the priest.
Holy Saturday is the only time in the year when the Church's liturgical calendar uses the Jewish reckoning of days whereby, at nightfall, one days ends the next day begins. Thus, Sunday begins at nightfall tonight.
- Little Black Book, Diocese of Saginaw