November desserts
Save room for dessert! Let's have some fun with our meal... choose as many activities as you like to round out your household's faith adventure this month.
saint of the Month
St. Cecilia
November 22, is the feast day of St. Cecilia, an early virgin martyr of Rome and patron of musicians. Read more about St. Cecilia in the article and find activities to celebrate her feast day.
Are you a musical family? Does someone in your household play an instrument? If not, have everyone find or create a homemade instrument and have a family concert to celebrate St. Cecilia.
November 22, is the feast day of St. Cecilia, an early virgin martyr of Rome and patron of musicians. Read more about St. Cecilia in the article and find activities to celebrate her feast day.
Are you a musical family? Does someone in your household play an instrument? If not, have everyone find or create a homemade instrument and have a family concert to celebrate St. Cecilia.
our catholic traditions
A form of prayer that Catholics often pray is called a litany. In litany, the leader invokes a person or petition, and the people answer with a recurring response. At Thanksgiving, it is appropriate prayer form to use as we recite the many things we have to be thankful for. Here is a prayer that you can use at your Thanksgiving table that concludes with a litany of thanks. Each person at the table can take a turn being the leader and naming something they are thankful for, and the rest of the group responds, "Lord we thank you."
See Fr. Michael Driscoll's November Table Prayer below to get your started.
See Fr. Michael Driscoll's November Table Prayer below to get your started.
liturgical year connections
Advent Prayer
November 29 is the beginning of Advent and a new liturgical year in the church. Add this Advent prayer to your prayer space and use it throughout the month.
Advent Prayer
We long for You Lord.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We await Your coming in glory.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We ask to watch with patient joy.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We pray for Your Spirit.
Come, Lord Jesus.
For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory are yours, now and forever. Amen
Advent Video
Here is a short video explaining Advent as a season of hope -- very appropriate this year!
Children's Advent Calendar
Here is an online Advent calendar for children, with an option to print it out.
Advent Day by Day for Adults
Loyola Press is offering daily reflections for adults, based on the alphabet, that you receive by email. Click here to subscribe.
Reverse Advent Calendar
Looking for a way to give back this year. How about a reverse advent calendar? Each day add one item to a box, when the box is full donate the box to a food pantry or family in need. How about adjusting the dates and start on the first day of advent? What a blessing to others.
Reverse Advent Calendar, click on picture below to download.
November 29 is the beginning of Advent and a new liturgical year in the church. Add this Advent prayer to your prayer space and use it throughout the month.
Advent Prayer
We long for You Lord.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We await Your coming in glory.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We ask to watch with patient joy.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We pray for Your Spirit.
Come, Lord Jesus.
For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory are yours, now and forever. Amen
Advent Video
Here is a short video explaining Advent as a season of hope -- very appropriate this year!
Children's Advent Calendar
Here is an online Advent calendar for children, with an option to print it out.
Advent Day by Day for Adults
Loyola Press is offering daily reflections for adults, based on the alphabet, that you receive by email. Click here to subscribe.
Reverse Advent Calendar
Looking for a way to give back this year. How about a reverse advent calendar? Each day add one item to a box, when the box is full donate the box to a food pantry or family in need. How about adjusting the dates and start on the first day of advent? What a blessing to others.
Reverse Advent Calendar, click on picture below to download.
faith in action
This month we celebrate family and what spending time with family and friends means to us. While our holiday gatherings may be different this year, they can still be meaningful. There will be many family members who we will miss gathering with this Thanksgiving. As a family take an afternoon to write and mail cards to those family members and friends who you will not see. Send a note that says, "thinking of you," "wishing you the best," "sending hugs from our house to yours."
Want to spread even more joy? Email Jenni Lihs for a list of parishioners who would enjoy a "Happy Thanksgiving" card.
Want to spread even more joy? Email Jenni Lihs for a list of parishioners who would enjoy a "Happy Thanksgiving" card.
for fun
Game
Mexican Train Dominoes is a fun family game that up to 12 players can play. Yay for big families and family gatherings! Mexican train dominoes is fun to young and young at heart. Object of the game is to be the first person to place all your dominoes on a train. "Toot, toot" place all your dominoes and press the button to win. |
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Recipe
Bishop's Wine in honor of St. Nicholas Day, December 6
2 bottles of red wine, or sparkling grape juice
1 orange, studded with cloves, and quartered
1 strip of lemon peel
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 tsp each: all spice, ginger
2-4 TBSP of sugar to taste
Pour wine into a saucepan or crock pot. Add orange, lemon peel, cinnamon, and spices. Cover and simmer until hot. Add sugar to taste. Serve hot.
Bishop's Wine in honor of St. Nicholas Day, December 6
2 bottles of red wine, or sparkling grape juice
1 orange, studded with cloves, and quartered
1 strip of lemon peel
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 tsp each: all spice, ginger
2-4 TBSP of sugar to taste
Pour wine into a saucepan or crock pot. Add orange, lemon peel, cinnamon, and spices. Cover and simmer until hot. Add sugar to taste. Serve hot.
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Funny
Just a funny, light-hearted song, to share and laugh. Enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving. |
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