within the beauty and wonder of celebrating the church year, we get the chance to experience our ordinary time bumping up against eternity.  and we get to experience it year after year.  time moves ever forward, but in the church year we get to spiral around again to the great feast and fasts.  i’ve gathered here various posts that i’ve written in years past.  it does me good to revisit what’s here.  to remember.  and so we begin.

first, some general thoughts on keeping the liturgy of the home and  parenting in the pew and (not) being catholic.  and then two collections of quotes from the wise woman, Gladys Hunt, that point me toward just the sort of family culture i hope lives at our house.

ADVENT + CHRISTMAS

• preparing for Advent :: one
• preparing for Advent :: two
• preparing for Advent  :: three
• on saint andrew’s day
• prepare the way–advent reading
• face the light
• practicing christmas
• on the third night of christmas
• good gifts
• this year’s book
• the end of winter–feast of the Presentation or Candlemas 2 February

LENT

• four square plan for lent
• observing lent with our families
• lent and children

EASTER

• celebrating the fifty days of Easter
• keep the feast : : alleluia
• at one year

SAINTS IN ORDINARY TIME

• on the feast of the visitation–31 May
• on the feast of saint Anne–26 July
• a blessed feast–St Jerome 30 September
• st francis–4 October
• for all the saints–All Saints Day 1 November
• dia de los muertos–All Souls Day 2 November
• on St Andrew’s day–30 November
• the gifts of saint nicolas–6 December
• our boy’s name–St Nicolas 6 December