As far as my children are concerned, my major resolution concerns celebrating more fully the liturgical year and the feast days of the Church and becoming a more prayerful family. I see this taking several forms:
1_ Using both the picture books from Catholic Mosaic and activities from A Year with God: Celebrating the Liturgical Year, I hope to show my children the richness of the liturgical year and the life of the saints.
2_ Today I started making a calendar with some of the feast days from January using pictures and information I gathered at Catholic Culture. Also included on the calendar are the anniversaries of my family’s sacraments of initiation (Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation). I want to make these anniversaries into days of celebration. In addition, I have each box of the calendar marked with the color that corresponds to the liturgical season (say that last sentence 5 times fast – it’s quite a tongue twister!!! LOL)
3_ All my children have names that can at least loosely be associated with a saint. I am planning to have Name Day celebrations to celebrate the life of the saint with whom my children share a name. I am the only one with a name that isn’t even remotely associated with a saint (Heather). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
4_ Also I randomly (using our Christmas cards) picked a family to pray for each day. I put their names on the calendar as well.
I had been sort of waiting for the perfect idea to come to me regarding how to put together this calendar. However, I decided that even a flawed attempt was better than none at all. So I purchased a large calendar at Staples and jumped in. I am sure that this year’s calendar will help me to figure out that perfect calendar for next year – perhaps one that be able to be used from year to year – something more durable that can easily be adjusted to accommodate the changes in the church calendar from year to year.
A special thank you to Katherine at A Living Education whose post on Liturgical Wheels and Calendars inspired me.
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This is wonderful. And I really like the way you printed out the images and used them on a pre-printed calendar. When we were done with our December calendar, it was rather painful to realize that it couldn’t be re-used. I like your way better. I was also thinking of a pocket calendar and just storing the holy images and re-using them each year.
God bless.
I love your calendar! What a lovely idea. To make it reuseable perhaps you could Contact Paper the images and then tape them to the page. I’m going to make this a project for my girls. Thanks for sharing!
Great idea.