1 October

Calendar Overview

• Calendar: Ordinary Time

• Liturgical Color: Green (Life, hope, anticipation)

• Month: The Most Holy Rosary

• Season: After Pentecost (Roman Rite)

• High Feast: The Feast of All Saints

• Feast Day: St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Daily Preparations

• Remove all items from the home oratory except the crucifix

• Begin purchasing thirty-one (31) long-burning candles (vigil and pillar)

• Print coloring sheets of the Saints

• Prepare an art bin supplied with crayons, colored pencils, or markers

Rituals

Little Flower Bowl

1. Find or purchase a large bowl or 5-quart glass jar (this will be your Little Flower Bowl)

2. Find or purchase many fabric flowers or create your own origami flowers

3. Create a list of little acts of love that you can do individually and as a family. This list will help guide your family in what they can do for one another or for your community to show and share God’s love.

4. At the end of the day, during supper or evening time, you will review the little acts of love you have done as a family and place your “little flowers” in your Little Flower Bowl.

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Family Liturgy

Family Prayer

A Prayer to St. Therese of Lisieux

O little St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of wholehearted abandonment to God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues, cast a glance of pity on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own - speak a word for me to our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were - to that Queen of heaven, who smiled on you at the dawn of life. ' Beg her as the Queen of the heart of Jesus to obtain for me by her powerful intercession, the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment, and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life. Defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity. + Amen

Family Supper

1. Place your Little Flower Bowl on the table

2. Talk about the little acts of love you did that day as you place your “little flowers” for God into the Little Flower Bowl

Family Formation

For older youths and adults

For children

Family Oratory

1. Just before the evening Rosary, place one candle on the home oratory

2. Set an intention for a lost, struggling, or hurting soul

3. Light the candle

4. Pray the Rosary

Family Prayer

Rosary

1. Parents lead the family Rosary (or stream a Rosary from YouTube or the Hallow Prayer app)

2. As the family prays the Rosary, pass out the coloring sheets

3. Pass out the crayons, coloring pencils, or markers

4. When finished praying, hang up pictures of the Saints around your home

St. Therese of Lisieux’s Prayer for Priests

O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood. Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labors with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. + Amen