Feast Day Celebrations of 2016

I only have three children and I find it very difficult to get some time to keep up with my blogging.  There is so much that I have missed updating on here and now I don't even know where to begin.  When I looked through my pictures from last year, one most important thing I did not want to skip posting was our feast day celebrations. I cant cover all of it but I am going to try to share at least a few.  

St Patricks Day 2016

Lets start off with our St. Patrick's day.  For the past two years we have been celebrating this great saints feast.  It is very exciting for children to learn about this saint since a lot of adventure revolves around his life from the pirates capturing him as a young boy to how he became the one to bring Catholic faith to Ireland.

This is the first time we made a saint puppet. 

I love teaching about the trinity using the shamrock.  What a great way for little ones to understand the mystery of 3 persons in 1

And finally we ended by watching our favorite DVD of St Patrick.

Feast of St Faustina 

She is a saint who teaches about the mercy of our Lord.

Mary's Feast day - Nativity of Mary

We wanted to celebrate our little Mary's feast as she is named after our dear mother.  She is the one who is going to celebrate the most feast days since St. Mary has a feast almost every month.

We picked flowers from our own garden for our Lady

Doesnt she look beautiful with all the flowers and candles

She is only 4 months

Feast of St Michael, the archangel

This is the first time we celebrated the feast of St Michael.  We used these small cocktail swords to remember how St Michael always is in battle with the evil.  The brownies were the symbol of evil and the swords represent St. Michael's sword.

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi

I love St. Francis of Assisi.  Sony has gone to Assisi and seen his house and the church he built.  I love the movie Brother Son, Sister Moon.  I used to watch it when I was in middle school and this movie has touched me a lot.  I am so glad I finally got to celebrate his feast with my kids.  We read the book Francis and the wolf.  Kids loved the story.  We had a great time celebrating his feast by making wolf paw cookies.  The cookies were based on the story of how Francis tamed the wolf.

Feast of St Cecilia

We have been listening to the Glory Stories of St. Cecilia for a year.  Now that we really knew who she was, we wanted to celebrate her life.  What a holy and brave young woman she was!!  We made a piano with wafers and kit kats since she is the patron saint of Musicians.  It is said that when she was being beheaded she kept singing songs.