Happy Feast of St. Francis of Assisi!

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.


O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

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Happy Feast of St. Francis of Assisi!  St. Francis is a favorite of Pete's, so of course we had to celebrate today!  We started the day by reciting the above prayer at breakfast with the kids.  The girls colored a coloring page of him and watched the CCC movie Francis: Knight of Assisi.  We had animal crackers in honor of his love of animals and leftover cake for dessert!  We also had a Tuscan Chicken Stew in honor of his Italian Heritage!

St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us and please restore our Church once more!

Happy Feast of St. Therese of the Little Flower!

Today is the feast of St. Therese of the Little Flower on the Traditional calendar.  Being that St. Therese is such a wonderful saint and Naomi's patron saint (her middle name is Therese), we had to celebrate!

~We colored these paper dolls and their accessories and glued the accessories onto the dolls.
~We cut out this picture from this assortment of beautiful pictures of St. Therese and the girls decided to glue it to the back of their dolls.
~Of course we had to have dessert tonight!  We ended up having a delicious caramel pecan chocolate cake.

I tried to take a picture of the girls and their paper dolls, but couldn't find my camera of course!  I know I have it here because I took a picture of Timmy with sunglasses on upside down playing with a mini guitar!  Hopefully I'll find it soon!

On to the feast of St. Francis of Assisi tomorrow!  We have more plans for that feast!

Michaelmas 2011!

Today was the feast of Michaelmas, of the feast of St. Michael the Archangel!  We celebrated by reciting the St. Michael the Archangel prayer during morning prayers and then talking about St. Michael.  The girls (Olivia really) decided to create a "St. Michael" out of their laundry basket, a shawl, two rulers for arms and a wreath on the head.  They created a whole procession, complete with handmade flowers cut out of construction paper, carried in a plastic Home Depot tool box and tossed to the grown.  They took turns "crowning St. Michael" with the wreath and then kneeling in front of "St. Michael" and reciting prayers.  It was so darn cute!

Later we colored angels and they designed their own puppets and put on a puppet show for me. 

In France, the tradition is to serve Gaufres or waffles.  So, waffles it was for supper!  I made these from scratch using this recipe and added blackberries instead of blueberries.  Tradition has it that when St. Michael threw Satan out of Heaven, Satan landed in a blackberry bush.  He was so mad that he spit on the blackberry bush and now blackberries are no good to pick after this date. 

Dessert consisted of Devils Food cake topped with angelic whipped cream.  The girls each got a plastic knife and got to kill the devil devils food cake!  They got a kick out of that!