Do you celebrate Feast Days in your home?

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Do you and your family celebrate the Feast Day of a particular saint in your home? What do you do–a special meal, reading, something? How do your young children participate? Did you celebrate Feast Days when YOU were little?

I’m thinking that this would be a nice tradition to start with Twosweetgirls, but I’ve no idea which saint to choose or how to go about celebrating their Feast Day.

Any help or ideas are much appreciated! ❤️
 
It wasn’t something that was done in my family when I was growing up. Except maybe for a few Marian feasts/months.

But if you want to do something here are several possible routes. a) Pick feasts of well known saints like the Blessed Mother or some of Christ’s companions. Then you can look to the bible to figure out what might be a way to do something related to what that the particular saint was known for. b) Pick the feast day of a patron saint. You have the possibility to celebrate family members’ patron saints, your parish patron saint, your diocesan patron saint, etc. Again, you can research something the saints are know for to figure out how to celebrate. c) Pick some feast for an event from the Bible or the history of the Church.

Whatever the feast day, you can look up the readings and/or propers for that day and go through them as a family. You could pray a decade of the rosary or some other prayers that seem appropriate. You can fix a special meal, perhaps one that reminds you of the feast or of the saint. If you have a statue of a saint you could put flowers or some other decoration before it and light a candle.
 
We all know I think St. Nicholas Day is a must.

We also do baptismal days, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Ascension Thursday ON that correct Thursday, and Feast of Christ the King, St. Patrick, St. Joseph, and Twelfth Night.

Baptismal Days: Special dessert of their choice, light the baptismal candles (both girls were baptized on the same date).

Immaculate Conception: The day Mary comes out of her nest in the box of Christmas stuff, along with the Angel Gabriel. (What? You don’t have a Gabriel?) Angel food cake with white and blue frosting. Mass, of course.

Ascension: Kite day.

Feast of Christ the King: A royal meal, with several courses. We make paper crowns, because we are adopted children of God.

St. Patrick: The usual.

St. Joseph: St. Joseph Table.

Twelfth Night: Noise makers, a small present, 3 kings’ cake with the traditional symbols baked into it.
 
My family has a collection of saint DVD’s…each is an animated movie of a saint’s life made for children. (Although my whole family likes them.) So on a saint’s feast day, we pull out the dvd or vhs of that saint and all sit down in the living room and watch it together.

You can find the videos here: cccofamerica.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=catshow&ref=saints_heroes&sid=1do0gmsji0w618092l8629i48f95845u

Something else Mom does with us is when it’s the feast day of one of our patron saints, she’ll make a special dessert to celebrate.

I’m not sure how old your daughters are, but another thing I would suggest is the Mary Fabyan Windeatt saint books. I believe they’re ages 10-100, but I really think a younger child could understand them.

Btw, I think it’s really great that you want to incorporate the saints into the lives of your children. I can tell you’re a great mom. 🙂
 
You all are in inspiration to me! We presently don’t do feast days but that’s what I’m working on - making our home a Domestic Church. Celebrating feast days will be a major way of doing that. We want these things to be in place so that when we do finally have children, they will be raised celebrating the seasons of the liturgy and all that goes with it!
 
look at this blog…ebeth.typepad.com
It has many AWSOME ideas. This year we did the Immaculate Conception novena candle.
We also made an altar for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Were praying a novena to her as well.
This is the first year we celebrated St. Nicholas day.
This is my first year homeschooling so I’m trying to really get into the saints!
 
we used to celebrate St. Lucy day because we had a family member named Lucy, and St. Nicholas because it was ethnic tradition on one side of the family, also St. Joseph day (other side of the family), and Assumption because it is a big deal in the Cleveland neighborhood where we lived for many years. We also celebrated St. Francis, St. Jerome, and Guardian Angels, because of schools kids attended in the various families. I think it is coming up on 200th anniversary of something to do w/Mother Elizabeth Seton, and bishop is having something at our grandkids school, which is named for her, in honor of that.
 
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