Seder Meal – St. Joseph’s Parish 
At 5:30 pm St Joseph Parish will hold a potluck meal. Recounting the suffering of slavery and then freedom for the Israelites, in ancient Egypt. Although this Seder meal will not have all the traditional elements – it still serves to remind us of the suffering and evil in our world, and how God promises us something better.
A traditional Seder meal has a plate of several symbolic foods:
- Roasted lamb - to symbolize the paschal lamb
- Karpas – a green vegetable to represent spring
- Charoset – apples, walnuts, wine and cinnamon chopped and mixed together to stand for the mortar the Hebrew slaves made
- Maror – a bitter herb reminding us of the bitterness of slavery
- Hard-boiled egg – showing springtime and renewal
- Salt water – the tears of enslavement.
There are prayers and scripture readings throughout the Seder meal.
photo credit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4SederFoods.JPG
