For a while I've been trying to put together our family's celebration of minor Feast days. Since God has so generously given us grace-filled lives to imitate--men and women who preferred his will and his work to their own--we would do well to remember them, to study their lives and to ask for their prayers. I have a tendency to be too ambitious and then to do nothing, so I'm resolving instead to try to do a little at first, and then add to it as the children are able to read, research and assist me in developing our traditions.
My goal is one saint a week. We'll read and discuss a short life on the eve of the feast, and then learn some new devotions on the feast day itself. I'll also find out some traditional feast foods and customs--it turns out that many are bread/cake related. Why not? Bread is a universal human food, as our Good Lord himself knew so well, and it just reminds me of all the reasons I love being Catholic. There's a beautiful coherence and logic to everything we believe and practice. Even the mysterious parts that "don't make sense" make perfect sense.
For the rest of July, we'll have two:
July 26 Sts Anne and Joachim (prayers; foods and customs)
July 29 St. Martha (lives; foods; prayers)
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