Liturgical Living: May Feasts And Solemnities


Catholic Homeschooling is a blessing! 

And now its May, and we're still in the octave of Easter.

Here's a round up of May feasts and solemnities for your homeschool Liturgical living lessons.


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Mama Mary


The whole month of May is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.  Filipinos offer flowers to the Blessed Virgin before or after daily  and Sunday masses. During the pandemic,  most of us could come to church, so I had the idea of offering our drawings, paintings  or crafted flowers to our Blessed Mother. 

Join me at @weenacontrerasart for the Flowers for Mary: Daily Flower Sketch Challenge



I have a FREE printable of the Blessed Mother here. You can print it and add flowers on her head each day for the whole month of May.

Now that we are able to gather once again at church, try to participate in the daily devotion in your parish to offer flowers to our Blessed Mother after the mass.





And since its her month, I would like to encourage each family to pray the rosary. If you're doing Picture Study, like us, this FREE Mysteries of the Holy Rosary Guide is for you.







Papa Joseph

May 1 is the feast of St. Joseph, the worker. You can find ways to celebrate in this blog post: Celebrating The Feast of St Joseph, Husband of Mary

Sunday Gospel Readings

May 2, 2021. (Cycle B) The Vine and The Branches John 15: 1-8. 
Even before the pandemic, our family prepares for Sunday mass by reading the Sunday Gospel after breakfast. Since it is also a homeschool day (not a weekend) We do narration and journaling also. After reading (and/or  listening) to the Gospel each member narrates back what has been read, starting from the youngest up to the eldest (including Nanay - Mom and Tatay - Dad). We also do Scripture memory from the Gospel. I have another FREE printable to use in memorizing  a verse in the Gospel. 

May 9, 2021/ May 5, 2024 (Cycle B). Love One Another. John 15 9-17
There is a Scripture Memory coloring page, a word search and a word factory activity page here.




More printables on my FREE PRINTABLES page.



Saints' Feasts

Saints Philip and James, May 3 

Download here:
Saint James the Less (old version)
Saint Philip (old version)
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Saint Matthias, May 14

Saint Rita of Cascia, May 22

Saint Bede the Venerable, May 25

You can find coloring pages for all these saints over at my THE SAINTS PRINTABLES page.







Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord

Ways to celebrate and a FREE printable can be found in my Celebrating The Feast of The Ascension blog post.




Pentecost

Ways to celebrate and again, a FREE printable can be found in my Celebrating Pentecost With Family










I will continue adding links and resources to this post. So please check once in a while. I would love to know what you have done to celebrate these feasts and solemnities so please drop a photo or message on my Everything Is Grace Facebook page.

God bless you.