2 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: Feast of the Guardian Angels

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

• Arrange candles on the home oratory

• Begin lighting candles every night for evening prayer

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.

Gallery of the Saints

1. Every evening, for evening Rosary, pull out the Saint coloring sheets and color a picture of a Saint as you pray.

1. Tape up the pictures of the Saints around your home as if you were hanging family pictures, create a gallery of the saints, or post the pictures any and everywhere!

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Family Liturgy

Family Prayer

Guardian Angel Prayer

Angel of God, my guardian dear. To whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my said: to light and guard and rule and guide. + 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

3. Read a very short section from the Imitation of Christ

Family Formation

For older youths and adults

For children

Family Oratory

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

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

3. Light the candles

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

A Parent’s Prayer to the Children’s Guardian Angels

I humbly ask you,
O faithful, Heavenly Friends of my children!

I give you my heartfelt thanks
for all the love and goodness you have shown them.

At some future day I will
with thanks more worthy than I can now give you, repay your care for them,
and before the whole heavenly court
acknowledge their indebtedness to your guidance and protection.

Continue to watch over them, I beseech thee, and provide for all their needs of body and soul.

Pray, likewise, for me, for my spouse,
and my whole family, that we may all one day rejoice in your blessed company.

+ Amen.