All Saint's Day 2009

A few glimpses of our Our Saint's Celebration

2009
Each year, our Little Flowers and Blue Knights group gets together for an All Saint's Celebraton!
The kids dress as their favorite saint but they keep it a secret...Shhhh.
Each child gets up in front of the group and gives a few hints about who they are.  The audience has to guess which saint they are dressed as!
Then we have refreshments and free play....yay!

~Here we have...St. Clare, St. (Padre) Pio, and St. Luke~

Padre Pio's Stigmata

St. Clare of Assisi and her monstrance...

I did not spend a dime or sew a single stitch for this costume...

Can you believe we just used a ladies brown turtle neck (and also a white one underneath) for her habit?  I used all things "on hand"!

St. Luke was known to be a Doctor...

The Bible calls Luke the 'beloved physicain'.

A close-up of the "Soul Doctor"

St. Clare visits with St. Padre Pio at the heavenly party...

And Padre Pio addresses the group...

At the end of the day, we are grateful for the saints who cheer for us, pray for us, and encourage us, as we make our way through the journey of our Christian lives. 

Thank you, Lord, for the 'cloud of witnesses' who have gone before us and wait for us in the winners' circle of heaven!

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."

~Hebrews 12:1-2~

Our version of a "Saint-O-Lantern"

Don't Forget to check Catholic Icing for All Saint's Party Ideas!

Click here for the link-up...

Happy Birthday Blessed Mother! 2009

May Magnificat Poem

The May Magnificat

May is Mary's month, and I

Muse at that and wonder why:

Her feasts follow reason,

Dated due to season -

Candlemas, Lady Day;

But the Lady Month, May,

Why fasten that upon her,

With a feasting in her honor?

Is it only its being brighter

Than the most are must delight her?

Is it opportunest

And flowers find soonest?

Ask of her, the mighty mother:

Her reply puts this other

Question: What is Spring? -

Growth in every thing -

Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,

Grass and greenworld all together;

Star-eyed strawberry-breasted

Throstle above her nested

Cluster of blue eggs thin

Forms and warms the life within;

And bird and blossom swell

In sod or sheath or shell.

All things rising, all things sizing

Mary sees, sympathizing

With that world of good,

Nature's motherhood.

Their magnifying of each its kind

With delight calls to mind

How she did in her stored

Magnify the Lord.

Well, but there was more than this:

Spring's universal bliss

Much, had much to say

To offering Mary May.

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple

Bloom lights the orchard-apple

And thicket and thorp are merry

With silver-surfed cherry

And azuring-over greybell makes

Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes

And magic cuckoo call

Caps, clears, and clinches all -

This ecstasy all through mothering earth

Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth

To remember and exultation

In God who was her salvation.

Source: Written by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889); Provided by the courtesy of Catholic Information Network (CIN)