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Is there a book that has a chronological listing of feast days with activities? I am so organizationally challenged along with such ignorance of my faith. Unless I scour these boards all the time I find it hard to plan for these wonderful feast days. I try to follow the calendar, but once again, I am so challenged.
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KC,
I'm sorry to say there is no simple answer to your question, at least from where I see it. I have to broaden your question: 1) How do you define feast days? Do you mean saints days, or all the feasts and seasons of the liturgical year? 2) What approach do you want to take in celebrating the feast days? Foods, crafts, reading, prayers? All of the above?
We've had a few discussions on this subject. There are multiple sources out there for the liturgical year. The problem is there isn't a comprehensive source, or "one size fits all" and a "one stop shop" as far as a Liturgical Year in the Home book. Age ranges, varying interests and approaches make it hard to nail down. With original ideas from Alice and MaryM and Gwen and others for every feast day every year...it seems like one could never stop creating.
The only book I don't have so I can't give a resounding answer that might be closest to your aim is A Year With God from Catholic Heritage Curricula.
Here are the previous threads:
Big Book of Catholic Customs -- You might want to apply Cay and Gwen and Mary G's ideas of creating your own binder.
Non-American Catholic Traditions?
Resources for Celebrating the Liturgical Year
Celebrating the Liturgical Year
Hope that helps some. I also have a list that includes links to OOP resources. Just PM me.
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Jenn,
I guess I was hoping for a big comprehensive book that had loads of activities for all types of feast days (saint days, feast and seasons) in one book for all age ranges. Sort of like a catalog--"Oh, let's see, today is May 1st. What sounds interesting?"  It was really wishful thinking on my part. I will PM you about a list of links to OOP resources. Thank you.
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Hi KC,
For a one-stop shop, the Catholic Culture website is where I usually go first.
Another great resource is Around the year with the Trapp family which is online. Maria von Trapp shares how her family celebrates the liturgical year. I plan to go through it as a guide to get ideas. Alice Gunther told us about it in Easter 05 in this thread
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KC in TX wrote:
Jenn,
I guess I was hoping for a big comprehensive book that had loads of activities for all types of feast days (saint days, feast and seasons) in one book for all age ranges. Sort of like a catalog--"Oh, let's see, today is May 1st. What sounds interesting?" It was really wishful thinking on my part. |
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I've wanted something like that, too. Like Taffy suggests, Catholicculture.org is something like that. That was my original aim--to tie all the resources together so you could pick and choose. One of the problems is that our Liturgical Year isn't always set by Date, but moving feasts and seasons, so it's harder to open up and say "May 1" when it could fall during Easter, or the Advent season. And Sundays override...
And another hitch is some saints aren't on the revised General Roman Calendar but still celebrated on some days by local areas, some people follow the older calendar...all sorts of twists and turns.
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JennGM wrote:
KC in TX wrote:
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I've wanted something like that, too. |
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What you want is the book we have been trying to get Jenn to write  - I keep thinking if we all put our energy and ideas together MAYBE it could happen. 
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Hmmm ... could we get Jenn and Alice to collaborate??? 
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Exactly what I was fixing to propose. 
Maybe if we all pressure them just a tad...
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Cay Gibson wrote:
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Exactly what I was fixing to propose.
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I would be way out of my league! But thanks for thinking of me alongside Jenn! It is an honor, and you are both too kind.
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If someone with the vision and resources (Jenn) were to oversee this, I think there are lots of creative and valuable contributions from many members of this forum that would make it a great resource. Seems like we have this conversation every so often. Same idea - different discussion and another and another - I see a definite pattern!
Hopefully it will be more than just a dream some day.
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First of all, Alice, I'm out of your league. Your holiness, gentleness, sweetness, creativity and practicality are just far-reaching...but in your humility you don't see anything but good in everyone else!
I have "vision and resources" -- but I'm disorganized, proud and have no practical applications! It's just mere encyclopedic knowledge on this subject alone. Knowledge vs. living, you win hands down.
I've stewed ideas for something like this over and over again...it's not a dream, I just run into road blocks over time. I don't have publisher experience, so I don't the ins and outs of approaching one with an idea, or self-publishing...anyway, just musings.
It will happen, but I'm afraid it will have to wait until I don't have a toddler running around.
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MaryM wrote:
If someone with the vision and resources (Jenn) were to oversee this, I think there are lots of creative and valuable contributions from many members of this forum that would make it a great resource.
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Mary, that's a great idea. Kind of like a community cookbook, only ideas for Catholic CM-ers! I know I spend a lot of time mining the archives for ideas for upcoming feasts and seasons ...
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KC,
You may want to check out A Treasure Chest of Family Traditions. I hope it's still in print. It is organized by month and at the beginning of each month is a calendar of all the feasts. Jenn do you have this?
Of course it's nothing as comprehensive as you'd get from all the collaborators at these boards, but there are enough ideas to keep you going for awhile (no recipes either). For instance, May's calendar teaches the Angelus to say for the month, a work project on St. Joseph's day, some Marian altar ideas, an Apostle party for May 3, Mary Garden ideas, a couple of ideas for St. Isidore, St. Bernardine, St. Joan of Arc and the Visitation. There are some good RealLearning activities with kites and bubbles for Ascension. A lot of the activities are things you can pull together pretty quickly, and some of them are so simple you can go half the day before you remember "Oh, it's St. Isidore's day, we can honor him by saying a little prayer while we work on our chores today!"
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Does anyone know of a resource to help with pronunciation? I can't stand thinking I'm pronouncing a saint's name incorrectly. It's a long standing issue for me since people (before I started going by KC) always mispronounced my name.
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KC in TX wrote:
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KC, with all my saint books, I'm don't have any that have pronunciations. I'm surprised. I even have a hefty volume Dictionary of Patron Saints Names which I was sure would have it, and no, it doesn't. Hope someone else has more luck.
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