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Anyone have a great system for organizing their liturgical year ideas? I always feel like I'm floundering at the last minute to put something together and would have done better if I'd been better organized,,,or I find a pretty holy card and think, "I should put this out on the feast of the Presentation", and then it disappears into my giant drawers of junk...lol.
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Melanie, this is just what I'm working on for my conference talk! I am still tweaking my system but I have found My File Folder System helpful in organizing our family life, including planning feast days ahead.
I'd like to post more about it, but right now I need to help my little one with a stomach bug. 
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Melanie, I am really bad about this stuff also - quite the scatterbrain. But this year I put some craft kits together and it is a concept that would work really well with liturgical year stuff too. It took a bit of advance planning but like you said, I hate scrambling at the last minute. Essentially, I sat down with a calendar from our church (um, and Dawn's blog actually) and noted all the stuff I hoped to observe, made another list of supplies (I'm in the middle of ordering the supplies right now), and am stashing it all the materials needed for a particular day (including the ideas themselves) in a gallon ziploc baggie. And THEN I stashed the baggies in a dresser - one month per drawer. Hopefully this will work.
There are many more details on my site - the big post was here
The one just prior to that listed all the dates I am hoping to observe.
Cheryl wrote a list of autumn dates this morning that was helpful.
I'm not at all trying to too my own horn because - as I've said - this is not an area that I excel.
Also Jenn mentioned a good book this morning.
Hope some of this helps!
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One thing I do...have done for years...with those saint prayer cards is to put them all in a small recipe box and keep them on our altar. The children look through them sometimes. Sometimes they play a game of matching saint cards. When all else fails for the saint's feast day, the prayer card can be found as well as the appropriate Mosaic book. 
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Dawn is the great organizer, and I can't wait to see her new system.
And I loved reading J.Anne's ideas of making little craft kits. That is just a great idea!
I find I need things at my fingertips and more highly visible. I had items in file folders for years and never found them.  I'm switching to a binder organization, with lots of pockets and tabs. I think we talked about this idea at another time. Someone suggested monthly binders. I'd prefer seasonal binders, with some crossover months. And I am setting up a binder for coloring pages (masters and copies for each month) and a music binder.
I think I'll need either a main binder or just "control pages" for each feast or season. This would books I refer to, what we did last year, recipes I like, craft ideas, biographical books, online links, art that depicts this feast, hymns, crafts. This would just be the listings, not the actual ideas or sources.
The problem is there is a variety of sources, both online, paper material and books, so a reference or control pages is the best approach for me. I'm probably not making sense...
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Good ideas! Dawn, your folders are impressive! I can see the benefit to using folders like that for all kinds of things. A friend of mine sold me her Little Saints curriculum and she has it set up like that, with a file folder for every week and all the patterns, supply lists, etc. all put into it.
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Melanie
I could write your post word for word. I am very keen to read what everyone has said.
I bought a liturgical wheel hoping that would help, I keep forgetting to look at it  One time I got organised and wrote all feast days on a calendar, went to write the sacramental celabration days and got side-tracked and never got back Then I thought the Mosaic would be doable so I purchased it one year ago and haven't stuck with it properly This term I am determined to make a go of it, in my learning blog I have put what books and what days I am to read them in my sidebar, I think it will work, hopefully
So all the above are good ideas it is just me, Dawn maybe you could address how to deal with a 'hopeless case' like myself in your talk, I'd love to be reformed.
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I keep the book "A Continnual Feast" on display in my kitchen - and have a diary note to check it at the start of each month. I check the feast days and suggested recipes and slot them into my diary/shopping list.
I keep saints books on a bookstand on display near the dining room computer - we can turn the page each day and read a bit about the saint of that day. If we get time or are interested, we can do a quick internet search for actvities for that saint/week.
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Erin, I'm with you! I love Dawn's idea, but I know I'll forget to rotate folders and move stuff around. I'm not a huge planner. Everytime I get things written down it all changes!
Here are some organizational ideas from Mary Reed Newland and Helen McLoughlin:
Why Celebrate the Liturgical Year?
How To Celebrate a Nameday scroll down.
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| Anyone have a great system for organizing their liturgical year ideas? I always feel like I'm floundering at the last minute to put something together and would have done better if I'd been better organized,,,or I find a pretty holy card and think, "I should put this out on the feast of the Presentation", and then it disappears into my giant drawers of junk...lol. |
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I hate to sound like an advertisement but I use my planner for this. I go through it ahead of time and note all the various feast days and things I want us to do. That way it's all planned in advance and all I have to do is check my planner. If I'm feeling really ambitious I will gather materials (coloring pages recipies, etc.) ahead of time and put them in a month by month folder that I keep in my file cabinet. It's pretty simple - but it works for me.
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MicheleQ wrote:
| I hate to sound like an advertisement but I use my planner for this. I go through it ahead of time and note all the various feast days and things I want us to do. That way it's all planned in advance and all I have to do is check my planner. If I'm feeling really ambitious I will gather materials (coloring pages recipies, etc.) ahead of time and put them in a month by month folder that I keep in my file cabinet. It's pretty simple - but it works for me. |
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I almost wrote this same approach, but I thought "nobody will think that it's organized!". But I agree, that's the huge bonus of your planner, having the feasts listed there, seeing them a week or month in advance.
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Michele - I don't have a planner but a general diary from the stationer's - and, yes, the reminder notes in there are a big help!
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I just wrote on my blog how I organize all of my paper work, including liturgical stuff.
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Here is the direct link for Lisa's post. Thanks, Lisa...that's very helpful.
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I ordered a family centered press planner too! Haven't gotten it yet.
Dawn, I'm looking over your file folders again...you've got me thinkin'... 
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I was checking out that planner too. It defintely looks like something I'd actually use.
I usually write everything down on paper and then I always seem to lose it and have to start over.
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Melanie and Trish ~
You'll love Michele's planner. It's functional, very helpful for liturgical planning and it's SO VERY BEAUTIFUL! I get comments on mine all the time!
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Sorry for the serial posting......
But, this thread is a goldmine!
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Oh yes, I have one of her planners for my dh! I bought the men's planner for him as a Christmas gift, and he loves it...and I keep hunting down his so I can look up liturgical year information. heehee... SO I decided to get my own for the new school year. :)
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I use a planner similar to what Dawn (By Sun and Candlelight) just wrote about at her blog. I write in feast days as I come across them and add ideas to my calendar. I also add notes as to where I found the original idea - book title, page number, anything helpful for retrieving the material. Then when I turn my calendar to plan the next weeks lessons and shopping list I can be sure to add in the celebration of the liturgical year. Ideas are already there, the details just need to be finalized.
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