Liturgical Living At Home For Families: November Edition

Feast day and liturgical season traditions help our kiddos understand the Faith in their everyday space in their everyday life. The symbols and colors of the Church during each liturgical season can be brought home in many ways. Foods, activities, crafts, the options are vast.

*What season? Ordinary Time *Home altar color? Green

Upcoming Feast Days:

For the month of November, we like to hang our holy cards of different Saints on a string across the mantle, and every night after bedtime prayers together, we’ll do a litany chant (“St. so & so…pray for us”) using those cards. See the bottom of this link for “adapting a litany”!

October 31- Halloween: Halloween, or more accurately, All Hallows Eve, is the first day of Hallowtide, which includes Oct 31-Nov 2. All Hallows Eve has very Catholic origins! That being said, we let the kids celebrate with a fun costume, going trick-or-treating, and discussing death as the Bible does (see the Hallowtide link above). But we do avoid celebrating anything to do with evil and the demonic. It leads us up to very good and holy celebrations in the following 2 Nov days.

Nov 1- All Saints’ Day: This is a Holy Day of Obligation! This is also a super fun dress up time, right on the heels of All Hallows Eve (aka Halloween). Day 2 in Hallowtide, this day celebrates all the saints in Heaven. Around this day we love to attend an All Saints’ Day party where all the kids dress up as the Saint of their choosing. Here are some EASY ideas for costumes!

Nov 2- All Souls’ Day: (Day 3 of Hallowtide)One of the spiritual works of mercy is to pray for the dead. This is a precious opportunity to visit a cemetery and pray for the dead by name, any tombstone we come across. This is also a wonderful day to remember our deceased loved ones by name in our family prayers. Soul cakes are a fun treat to make this day! Here is a fabulous explanation on the way we should think about death.

Nov 27- Christ the King of the Universe: As it is the last Sunday in Ordinary Time for the year, it is fitting to focus on the supreme majesty of Jesus this day. You could do a King Cake or a bundt cake and decorate it like a crown, or even just make craft crowns for everyone. 

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Feel free to email me for any specifics, recipes, crafts, etc…Lindsay @ aldridge0222@gmail.com.