Family Feast Day Fun: June 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? Easter through Pentecost, then Ord Time II
-Home altar color? White, Red on Pentecost, then Green
It’s a packed month, liturgically! There are more feasts than listed, but here’s some…
Upcoming Feast Days:
June 1- Ascension Sunday: The day we remember that Jesus left His Apostles again, to rise to Heaven to live with His Father in Heaven until His promise of the Second Coming. We enjoyed this day with kite-flying fun after mass, since the kite seems to ascend like we can imagine Jesus did. Treats include root beer FLOATS!
June 8- Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost is the final 50th day of Easter. This is when the Holy Spirit comes down in tongues of fire upon the Apostles and Mary…we consider this the birthday of the Church! We wear red to mass, and later in the day we have a bonfire (for the tongues of fire) and birthday cake for the Church. This is a great craft too.
June 15- Father’s Day: Love on your fathers and spiritual fathers/godfathers and also our priests!
June 22- St. Thomas More: St. Thomas More stood up to Henry VIII way back when the King chose to separate the Church of England from the Catholic Church forever, with Thomas maintaining that the King’s annulment was invalid, causing him to be executed. He was a true statesman and witnessed that God is our ultimate King and judge. We like to celebrate with yummy St. Thomas s’Mores…😊
June 27- SOLEMNITY of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: This is a Solemnity that ALWAYS falls on a Friday. And as it is a Solemnity (the highest kind of feast day), this means that the usual call for Friday abstinence from meat (which is year-round, not only during Lent) does not apply and it is a MEAT Friday! Any meat will do, and making a big deal about it being a Meat Friday is always fun. Homemade pizza is easy to make look like the flaming and thorn-crowned Sacred Heart of Jesus. Or go big and enjoy steak with a coloring page.
We are the Domestic Church!
Feel free to email me for any specifics, recipes, coloring pages, etc…Lindsay @ aldridge0222@gmail.com.