Catholic Mothers Planner 2024

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What do I want to improve this year?
My favourite prayer:
I am the mum of...

Dear Catholic Mothers,
May this year be the year of true J0Y!
We often find that we are restlessly looking for happiness for
ourselves and constantly demanding it from the people around us,
only to realise that what we experience is fleeting, a temporary
feeling or in fact really hard to achieve due to circumstances and
life events!
May this year be different from every other year. May this be the
year in which fullness of joy finally lives in us! Not a passing
happiness but joy.
I wish you a year in which we discover that if our life, yes even
in its smallest actions, points towards God, we will truly own
perfect joy: in sadness, in stressful moments, in difficulties and
even in what sometimes appears to be the boring monotony of piles
of laundry, endless meals and work to help pay the bills. This
is our path to holiness.
Our Lady was filled with joy because Her life was lived for God,
Her life was lived in the will of God! Like the Mother of God
and with the help of the Mother of God may we be guided, hour
by hour, day by day, month by month, to the will of the Father,
in which is found fullness of life!
Pray for me, as I pray for you.
In Christ+
Chiara

“The woman’s soul is
fashioned as a shelter
in which other souls
may unfold.”
ST EDITH STEIN

· MY CATHOLIC ·
New Year‘s Resolution
• MY PATRON SAINT FOR 2024 IS
• MY WORD FOR 2024 IS
• I WILL LOVE AND SERVE MY FAMILY WITH YOUR HELP, O LORD.
• I WILL NOT COMPARE MY LIFE WITH THAT OF OTHER WOMEN.
• I WILL PRAY FOR MY SPOUSE EVERY DAY.
• I WILL PRAY FOR MY CHILDREN EVERY DAY.
• THIS YEAR’S PILGRIMAGE SITE WILL BE
• I WILL GIVE TO THE POOR MONTHLY.
• I WILL DO MY MARIAN CONSECRATION ON
TO FINISH ON THE FEAST OF
WRITE BELOW YOUR UNIQUE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION!

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Keeping track
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This could be your cycle, your daily rosary, your
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children’s instrument practice or screen time. This
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creative!
This section of the planner is here to help you to
have a monthly overview of whatever you need to
keep an eye on!

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Adam named his wife
Eve, because she would
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- GENESIS 3:20

The Mother of all Living, Eve
- GENESIS 3:20
The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Adam names Eve after the Fall. He does not name her “Temptress” or “Death-bringer”, but “Mother” and “life-giver.”
In the thought of the human authors of Scripture, a name was not just a title, but described the being and essence
of a person. The essence and heart of the feminine, no matter how broken or sinful she may be, is always Mother
and life-giver.
Eve finds her vocation after the Fall. She becomes Mother after both the first human sin and the first promise of
a Saviour (Gn. 3:15). In her motherhood she carries both of these realities. She passes Original Sin on to all of her
children, true, but her motherhood is also the means through which Jesus comes to save us. She is the Mother of All
the Living because God himself, the Life of all, will be born from one of her daughters. She is, therefore, the Mother
of Hope. All mothers pass on the sorrow of the human condition to their children, but more importantly, the hope
and promise of everlasting life.
Eve is the Mother of All the Living. Motherhood happens through nourishing an infant under the heart, feeding it
with one’s body and blood, and giving birth in pain, blood and labour. It is a kind of dying so others may live. Already
Eve points to the Cross and shares in the life-giving death of Jesus. The pains of every childbirth are sacred symbols
of life and love, revealing the Cross and Resurrection.
- Fr Nathanael Block
PRIEST FOR THE DIOCESE OF GALLUP
Spiritual
Challenge
Because names show the essence and
being of a person, the Name of Jesus is holy
and sacred. I will expunge all improper, profane,
or blasphemous use of His Name from my own
speech and that of my family. I will do this by:
bowing my head in love and adoration when his
Name is spoken in Mass; offering reparation
when His Name is profaned in my presence;
and doing a small penance, such as saying
a Hail Mary or giving some amount to
charity, if ever I use his Name in
any way other than in love,
in reverence and in
prayer.

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- The month of the Holy Name of Jesus -
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MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
NEW YEAR’S DAY
FEAST OF THE CIRCUMCISION
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THE MOST HOLY NAME
OF JESUS
ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
(USA)
OUR LADY OF
THE PLANTATION
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ESPOUSAL OF MARY
AND JOSEPH
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ST ANTHONY, ABBOT
ST FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP
AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
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THE CONVERSION OF
ST PAUL, APOSTLE
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ST JOHN BOSCO
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SO IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, THERE IS A NEW CREATION:
EVERYTHING OLD HAS PASSED AWAY; SEE, EVERYTHING HAS BECOME NEW!
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ST JOHN NEUMANN
ST TIMOTHY AND ST TITUS,
BISHOPS
Saturday
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
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(IRELAND)
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ST SEBASTIAN
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
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MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
NEW YEAR’S DAY
FEAST OF THE CIRCUMCISION
OF OUR LORD
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
THE MOST HOLY NAME
OF JESUS
ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON
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EVENING
EVENING
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EVENING

AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST
AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU SHALL COME A RULER
WHO IS TO SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.
- Matthew 2:6
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ST JOHN NEUMANN
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
(IRELAND)
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
(IRELAND)
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
IS 60: 1-6 /
PS 72: 1-2. 7-8. 10-11. 12-13 /
EPH 3: 2-3A. 5-6 / MT 2: 1-12
“What do you
seek?”
When we have to do with
Jesus, the question is always
turned upside down: from
questioners, we become
questioned; “searchers”, we
discover that we are “sought”;
he, indeed, has always loved
us first (cf. 1 Jn 4:10).
This is the fundamental
dimension of the encounter:
we are not dealing with
something, but with
Someone, with the “Living
One”. Christians are not
the disciples of a system of
philosophy: they are men and
women who, in faith, have
experienced the encounter
with Christ (cf. 1 Jn 1:14).
Like the first disciples, follow
Jesus! Do not be afraid to
draw near to him, to cross the
threshold of his dwelling, to
speak with him face to face,
as you talk with a friend (cf.
Ex 33:1;). Do not be afraid of
the “new life” he is offering.
He himself makes it possible
for you to receive that life and
practice it, with the help of his
grace and the gift of his Spirit.
POPE ST JOHN PAUL II
MESSAGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE
FOR THE 12TH WORLD
YOUTH DAY

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FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME FOR EVERY MATTER UNDER HEAVEN.
- Ecclesiastes 3
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Did you clearly
understand
what you were
undertaking?
A.M.
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You have asked to have your
child baptised.
In doing so you have accepted
the responsibility of training
your children in the practice
of the faith.
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It will be your duty to bring
them up to keep God’s
commandments as Christ
taught us, by loving God and
our neighbour.
The priest claimed you and
your children for Christ our
Saviour by the sign of his
cross.
Find a moment to ponder on
this.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
SECOND SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
Have you ever heard of
‘Baptism of desire’?
If not, find out about it.
1 SM 3: 3B-10. 19 / PS 40: 2. 4. 7-8.
8-9. 10 (8A. 9A) / 1 COR 6: 13C-15A.
17-20 / JN 1: 35-42
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OUR LADY OF THE PLANTATION
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
ST ANTHONY, ABBOT
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EVENING
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Espousal of Mary and Joseph...

THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE, BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR; FOR FEAR HAS TO DO WITH
PUNISHMENT, AND WHOEVER FEARS HAS NOT REACHED PERFECTION IN LOVE.
- 1 John 4:18
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ST FABIAN AND ST SEBASTIAN
ST AGNES
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O God, glory of your
Priests, grant we pray,
that, helped by the
intercession of your
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
Martyr Saint Fabian, we
may make progress by
communion in the faith
and by worthy service.
Through our Lord Jesus
Christ, your Son, who
lives and reigns with you
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, God, for ever
and ever.
THIRD SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JON 3: 1-5. 10 /
PS 25: 4-5. 6-7. 8-9 (4A) /
1 COR 7: 29-31 / MK 1: 14-20
Espousal of Mary and Joseph Novena

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ESPOUSAL OF MARY
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ST FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP
AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
THE CONVERSION
OF ST PAUL, APOSTLE
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EVENING
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Espousal of Mary and Joseph...

IF EVER YOU ARE TEMPTED TO REGARD YOURSELF AS WORTHLESS, YOU
SHOULD VALUE YOURSELF ACCORDING TO THE PRICE GOD PUT ON YOU.
Friday
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EVENING
- St Augustine
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EVENING
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ST TIMOTHY AND ST TITUS,
BISHOPS
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A.M.
ST THOMAS AQUINAS
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P.M.
EVENING
FOURTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
When we speak of the wife
obeying the husband, we normally
think of obedience in military
or political terms: the husband
giving orders, and the wife
obeying them. But while this type
of obedience may he appropriate
in the army, it is ridiculous in the
intimate relationship of marriage.
The obedient wife does not wait
for orders. Rather, she tries to
discern her husband’s needs and
feelings, and responds in love.
When she sees her husband is
weary, she encourages him to
rest; when she sees him agitated,
she soothes him; when he is ill,
she nurses and comforts him;
when he is happy and elated, she
shares his joy. Yet such obedience
should not be confined to the wife;
the husband should be obedient in
the same way. When she is weary,
he should relieve her of her work;
when she is sad, he should cherish
her, holding her gently in his arms;
when she is filled with good cheer,
he should also share her good
cheer. Thus a good marriage is not
a matter of one partner obeying
the other, but of both partners
obeying each other.
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
DT 18: 15-20 /
PS 95: 1-2. 6-7. 7-9 (8) /
1 COR 7: 32-35 / MK 1: 21-28

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PATIENCE OVERCOMES MANY DIFFICULTIES.
- St John Bosco
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“Without confidence and love,
there can be no true education. If
you want to be loved…you must
love yourselves, and make
your children feel that
you love them.”
St John Bosco reminds us.
Remember that Christ loves
you immensely … He loved
you first and therefore YOU
can also love!
Find ways to show love to
your children with your
actions this week.
Tell them you love them every
night before going to bed this
week and from now on, if you
don’t do it already.

February
M T W T F S S
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
07
14
21
28
01
08
15
22
29
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
Then God
remembered Rachel;
he listened to her and
enabled her to conceive.
- GENESIS 30:22

The Mother of Joseph, Rachel
- GENESIS 30
God always hears our prayers, but his answer is sometimes hard for us to hear. At times when we pour out our
heart’s desires, God tells us “No” because what we asked for was not truly good. At other times, God tells us “Not
yet” and bids us wait for the right time to unfold. Rachel knew the challenge of waiting for God. Although she was
Jacob’s first love, Rachel was the last to marry him. Although she was the one whose son would save the Jewish
nation, for most of her life Rachel was childless. Although she would become the matriarch to many nations, Rachel
had to wait for eternity to see it. God blessed Rachel abundantly, but she had to wait for the blessing to unfold.
- Sr. Teresa Benedicta Block, OP,
SISTERS OF MARY, MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST
Spiritual Challenge
Ask for the faith of Rachel when
God seems to bide his time.
Repeat the words of the Divine Mercy Chaplet
often this month, “Jesus, I trust in you.”
Although we may only read one page
at a time, trust in the good God
who writes the whole story our lives.
He works all things for the good
of those who love him
(Rom. 8:28).

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
26
20
27
21
28
22
29
23
24
25
- The month of the Holy Family -
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
01
ST AGATHA
05 06 07
ST PAUL MIKI
AND COMPANIONS
ST JOSEPHINE BAKHITA
08
ASH MONDAY
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
12 13 14
SHROVE TUESDAY
MARDI’ GRAS
ASH WEDNESDAY
15
PRESIDENTS’ DAY (USA)
19 20 21
SS FRANCISCO AND
JACINTA MARTO
THE CHAIR OF ST PETER
22
26 27 29
28

I TAKE PLEASURE IN THREE THINGS, AND THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND OF MORTALS:
AGREEMENT AMONG BROTHERS AND SISTERS, FRIENDSHIP AMONG NEIGHBOURS, AND A WIFE AND
A HUSBAND WHO LIVE IN HARMONY.
Friday
PRESENTATION OF
THE LORD, CANDLEMAS
ST MAROUN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
ST POLYCARP
Saturday
Sunday
ST BLAISE
- Sirach 25:1
02 03 04
09 10 11
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
16 17 18
23 24 25
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monday
29
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
30 31 01
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING

NO HUSBAND AND WIFE EVER LOVED ONE ANOTHER SO MUCH
AS DID JOSEPH AND MARY.
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
02 03 04
PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
ST BLAISE
CANDLEMAS
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
Nunc Dimittis
The Song of
Simeon
NUNC dimittis servum tuum,
Domine *
Secundum verbum tuum in pace:
Quia viderunt oculi mei *
salutare tuum Quod parasti *
ante faciem omnium populorum:
Lumen ad revelationem gentium, *
Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.
P.M.
EVENING
P.M.
EVENING
P.M.
EVENING
NOW dismiss Thy servant,
O Lord, *
in peace, according to Thy word:
For mine own eyes hath seen *
Thy salvation, which
Thou hast prepared *
in the sight of all the peoples,
A light to reveal
Thee to the nations *
and the glory of Thy people Israel.
FIFTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JB 7: 1-4. 6-7 /
PS 147: 1-2. 3-4. 5-6 / 1 COR 9: 16-
19. 22-23 / MK 1: 29-39
Read the story of Simeon.
Meditate on it. Read
it to your children and
grandchildren, nephews
and nieces… perhaps you
are a teacher, read it to
your pupils.
LUKE 2:25–35
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monday
05
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
06 07 08
ST AGATHA
ST PAUL MIKI
AND COMPANIONS
ST JOSEPHINE BAKHITA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes

HOW IS IT NOT ABSURD TO SEND CHILDREN OUT TO TRADES, AND TO SCHOOL,
AND TO DO ALL YOU CAN FOR THESE OBJECTS, AND YET, NOT TO “BRING THEM UP
IN THE CHASTENING AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD”?
- St John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
09 10 11
Strive first for the
kingdom of God
ST MAROUN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
A.M.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
A.M.
But strive first for the kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and
all these things will be given to
you as well.
MATTHEW 6:33
As Christians our life should
be a life of Faith.
Am I living according to the
teachings of the Church?
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
Am I making all decisions in
the light of the Faith?
If not… why is that? What is it
that is holding me back?
What is it that I cannot accept
of the teaching of the Church?
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
If you have any questions
about your faith email us at
catholicmothersUK@gmail.com
and will be happy to help or
direct you to the right place.
SIXTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
LV 13: 1-2. 44-46 / PS 32: 1-2. 5. 11
(7) / 1 COR 10: 31 11: 1 / MK 1: 40-45
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monday
12
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
13 14 15
ASH MONDAY
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
SHROVE TUESDAY
MARDI’ GRAS
ASH WEDNESDAY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

GOD IS FAITHFUL; HE WILL NOT LET YOU BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN BEAR.
BUT WHEN YOU ARE TEMPTED, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT SO THAT YOU CAN ENDURE IT.
- St Paul
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
16 17 18
Lenten plans and the
three weapons of Lent:
PRAYER
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
FASTING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
ALMSGIVING
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
GN 9: 8-15 / PS 25: 4-5. 6-7. 8-9 /
1 PT 3: 18-22 / MK 1: 12-15

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monday
19
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
20 21 22
PRESIDENTS’ DAY (USA)
SS FRANCISCO AND
JACINTA MARTO
THE CHAIR OF ST PETER
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
- EMBER DAY -
REMEMBER TO PRAY
FOR THE POPE

WE SHOULD BE SO MANY CHRISTS HERE ON EARTH, CONTINUING HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS,
LABOURING AND SUFFERING IN A HOLY AND DIVINE MANNER IN THE SPIRIT OF JESUS.
- St John Eudes
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
23 24 25
But who do you
say that I am?
ST POLYCARP
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
When Jesus went into the region
of Caesarea Philippi he asked his
disciples, “Who do people say that
the Son of Man is?” They replied,
“Some say John the Baptist,
others Elijah, still others Jeremiah
or one of the prophets.” He said
to them, “But who do you say that
I am?” Simon Peter said in reply,
“You are the Christ, the Son of
the living God.” Jesus said to him
in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon
son of Jonah. For flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but
my heavenly Father. And so I say
to you, you are Peter, and upon
this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of the netherworld
shall not prevail against it. I will
give you the keys to the Kingdom
of heaven. Whatever you bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.”
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
MT. 16:13-19
- EMBER DAY - - EMBER DAY -
GN 22: 1-2. 9A. 10-13. 15-18 /
PS 116: 10. 15. 16-17. 18-19 /
ROM 8: 31B-34 / MK 9: 2-10

M T W T F S S
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
February
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Monday
26
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
27 28 29
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY THE GOOD LORD CAN GET INTO SOME HEARTS
Friday
IS TO BREAK THEM.
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Saturday
Sunday
01 02 03
God has created me to do Him
some definite service. He has
committed some work to me
which He has not committed
to another. I have my mission.
I may never know it in this life,
but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of
connection between persons.
He has not created me for
naught. I shall do good; I shall
do His work. I shall be an angel
of peace, a preacher of truth
in my own place, while not
intending it if I do but keep His
commandments.
Therefore, I will trust Him.
Whatever I am, I can never be
thrown away. If I am in sickness,
my sickness may serve Him, in
perplexity, my perplexity may
serve Him. If I am in sorrow,
my sorrow may serve Him. He
does nothing in vain. He knows
what He is about. He may take
away my friends. He may throw
me among strangers. He may
make me feel desolate, make my
spirits sink, hide my future from
me. Still, He knows what He is
about.
ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

March
M T W T F S S
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02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

The Two Mothers of Moses
- EXODUS
Pharaoh’s edict required the slaughter of all Hebrew baby boys. Jochabed put baby Moses in a basket boat and sent
him down the Nile, trusting in God to give her boy a chance at life. In surrendering Moses to God, she still lost her son:
he was adopted by another. But what mercy! Her trust in God’s love for her boy was rewarded with Moses’ life being
spared (and in turn, the Hebrew race).
When Pharaoh’s daughter came upon the basket and saw the baby, she at once understood: This was a
condemned Hebrew child. She probably suspected that the girl watching nearby was the baby’s sister, and the
proposed nurse was the boy’s mother. Yet her mother’s heart was filled with compassion and she willingly took
Moses under her protection and into her family. Her adoption resulted in Moses being able to save his people.
~ Rebecca Block O’Loughlin
ICONOGRAPHER, AUTHOR
Spiritual
Challenge
How often do we condemn other mothers in
our thoughts, instead of sharing their burdens?
Do we recognize children as a gift from God,
or are we frustrated by their neediness
and strong wills?
Surrender your motherhood to God.
Pray a decade of the Rosary for your
child’s God-given mission in
this world.

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
25
19
26
20
27
21
28
22
29
23
30
24
31
- The month of St Joseph -
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
04 05 06
ST PERPETUA
AND ST FELICITY
07
11 12 13
14
18 19 20
ST JOSEPH
21
25 26 27
28
MAUNDY THURSDAY

WE WONDER WHY THE GOSPEL MAKES SO LITTLE MENTION OF ST JOSEPH. BUT DID IT NOT SAY
EVERYTHING WHEN IT TAUGHT US THAT HE WAS THE HUSBAND OF MARY?
- Blessed William Joseph Chaminade
Friday
ST DAVID
GOOD FRIDAY
Saturday
ST CATHERINE OF BOLOGNA
THE FORTY MARTYRS
OF SEBASTE
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
Sunday
01 02 03
ST JOHN MAROUN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
08 09 10
HOLY SATURDAY
MOTHERING SUNDAY
LAETARE SUNDAY
15 16 17
ST PATRICK
22 23 24
ST RAFQA
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
PALM SUNDAY
29 30 31
EASTER SUNDAY
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
26
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
27 28 29
Ember Days
Ember Days, also known as the “fasts of
the four seasons” are three days of prayer,
fasting and abstinence kept within one
week and traditionally observed by
Catholics four times a year. They always
fall on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
in each of the four seasons and were
traditionally associated with preparation
for the ordination of priests. Though they
are no longer mandated for Catholics
they are a wonderful opportunity to
pray for vocations for those training for
the priesthood and for the priests who
minister to us.

ST JOSEPH DID NOT DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, BUT RATHER BY THE CONSTANT
PRACTICE OF ORDINARY AND COMMON VIRTUES, HE ATTAINED THAT SANCTITY
WHICH ELEVATES HIM ABOVE ALL THE OTHER SAINTS.
- St Joseph Marello
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
01 02 03
Lenten Reflections:
ST DAVID
ST JOHN MAROUN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
EX20: 1-17 / PS 19: 8. 9. 10. 11 /
1 COR 1: 22-25 / JN 2: 13-25

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
04
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
05 06 07
ST PERPETUA AND ST FELICITY
A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

MAKE HIM [ST JOSEPH] THE PATRON OF YOUR FAMILY
AND YOU WILL SOON HAVE TANGIBLE PROOF OF HIS PROTECTING HAND.
- St Peter Julian Eymard
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
08 09 10
My Lenten
Struggles:
A.M.
ST CATHERINE OF BOLOGNA
THE FORTY MARTYRS
OF SEBASTE
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
MOTHERING SUNDAY
LAETARE SUNDAY
A.M.
“Lenten practices of giving up
pleasures are a good reminder
that the purpose of life is not
pleasure. The purpose of life is
to attain a perfect life, all truth
and undying ecstatic love—which
is the definition of God. In
pursuing that happiness, we find
happiness.”
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
ARCHBISHOP VENERABLE
FULTON J. SHEEN
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT
2 CHR 36: 14-16. 19-23 /
PS 137: 1-2. 3. 4-5. 6 (6AB) /
EPH 2: 4-10 / JN 3:14-21
St Joseph Novena

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
11
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
12 13 14
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
St Joseph Novena

SINCE WE ALL MUST DIE, WE SHOULD CHERISH A SPECIAL DEVOTION TO ST JOSEPH
THAT HE MAY OBTAIN FOR US A HAPPY DEATH.
- St Alphonsus Liguori
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
15 16 17
My Favourite
Lenten Quotations:
ST PATRICK
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
JER 31: 31-34 / PS 51: 3-4. 12-13. 14-
15 (12A) / HEB 5: 7-9 / JN 12: 20-33
St Joseph Novena

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
18
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
19 20 21
ST JOSEPH
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
St Joseph Novena

WHOEVER FAILS TO FIND A MASTER TO TEACH HIM HOW TO PRAY, SHOULD CHOOSE
THIS GLORIOUS SAINT (JOSEPH), AND HE WILL NOT GO ASTRAY.
- St Teresa of Avila
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
22 23 24
ST RAFQA
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
PALM SUNDAY
Entering Jerusalem.
My Journey
with Christ
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
PALM SUNDAY OF
THE LORD’S PASSION
PROCESSION: MK 11: 1-10
OR JN 12: 12-16.
MASS: IS 50: 4-7 /
PS 21: 8-9. 17-18. 19-20. 23-24 /
PHIL 2: 6-11 / MK 14: 1-15:47

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
March
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
25
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
26 27 28
MAUNDY THURSDAY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THIS IS MY HOPE, THE LIVING SOURCE OF MY HAPPINESS; THIS IS THE HEART OF MY SOUL;
NOTHING WILL EVER SEPARATE ME FROM HIS LOVE.
- St Pio of Pietrelcina
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
29 30 31
GOOD FRIDAY HOLY SATURDAY EASTER SUNDAY
”Surrexit Christus,
spes mea“ -
”Christ, my hope,
has risen“
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
THE RESURRECTION OF
OUR LORD AND
SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
ACTS 10: 34A. 37-43 /
PS 117: 1-2. 16-17. 22-23 /
COL 3: 1-4 OR 1 COR 5: 6B-8 /
JN 20: 1-9 OR
MK 16: 1-7 OR, AT AN
AFTERNOON OR EVENING
MASS, LK 24: 13-35
May the jubilant voice of the
Church reach all of you with
the words which the ancient
hymn puts on the lips of
Mary Magdalene, the first to
encounter the risen Jesus on
Easter morning. She ran to the
other disciples and breathlessly
announced: “I have seen the
Lord!” ( Jn 20:18). We too, who have
journeyed through the desert of
Lent and the sorrowful days of
the Passion, today raise the cry
of victory: “He has risen! He has
truly risen!”
FROM THE URBI ET ORBI
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE BENEDICT XVI,
EASTER 2012
EASTER TRIDUUM ENDS AFTER
EVENING PRAYER
Divine Mercy Novena
Annunciation Novena

April
M T W T F S S
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
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25
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28
29
30

A Mother - in - Law and Daughter - in - Law
faith - filled relationship
Noami and Ruth
- RUTH 1
The book of Ruth is a wonderful story of love and faithfulness rewarded. The widow Naomi marries her two sons to
Orpah and Ruth. These women are gentiles from Moab but willingly take on the faith of their new family. When their
husbands die young leaving them childless, Naomi resigns herself to dying alone and sends her daughters in law
back to their parents. Orpah leaves but Ruth remains, proclaiming her fidelity to God and to Naomi: “Entreat me not
to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people
shall be my people, and your God my God.” (Ruth 1:16) Naomi and Ruth return from Moab to Bethlehem and her
fidelity is repaid as Ruth meets and marries Boaz and she goes on to become the great grandmother of King David.
Sometimes God’s love is communicated to us through husbands, in-laws, friends and family but then he becomes
our own. As a gentile Ruth did not begin as one of God’s chosen people yet her fidelity to God was rewarded – once
she met God she gave herself to him fully and forever.
~ Iwonka Finaldi
WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
Spiritual
Challenge
Read the book of Ruth (it is very short) and
meditate upon the characters of Ruth and Naomi.
Think of all those who have brought you to faith –
pray for them.
Pray for all the converts you know, that they may
remain faithful to the calling they received.
Ask God for the faithfulness of Ruth as a
daughter-in-law and the wisdom of
Naomi as a mother-in-law.

M T W T F S S
01
08
15
02
09
16
03 04 05 06
10 11 12 13
17 18 19 20
07
14
21
April
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
EASTER MONDAY
- The month of the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit -
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
01 02 03 04
THE ANNUNCIATION
OF THE LORD
08 09 10 11
15 16 17 18
22
ST GEORGE
23
24 25
ST MARK THE EVANGELIST
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA
29
30

JESUS’S RESURRECTION SHOWS US THAT DEATH DOES NOT HAVE THE LAST WORLD; LIFE DOES. CHRIST HAS BEEN
RAISED, SO IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON EVERY EVENT OF OUR EXISTENCE, EVEN THE MOST
DIFFICULT ONES AND THOSE CHARGED WITH ANGUISH AND UNCERTAINTY.
Friday
OUR LADY
OF GOOD COUNSEL
- Pope Francis
Saturday
Sunday
05 06 07
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
12 13 14
19 20 21
ST ANSELM
26 27 28
ST GIANNA MOLLA
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Monthly
Meal Plan

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April
22
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Surrexit Christus, Spes Mea
Monday
01
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
02 03 04
EASTER MONDAY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Divine Mercy Novena
Annunciation Novena

GOD ASKS LITTLE, BUT HE GIVES MUCH.
- St John Chrysostom
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
05 06 07
Divine Mercy
Chaplet
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
Eternal Father,
I offer you the Body
and Blood, Soul and
Divinity of your dearly
beloved Son, Our Lord
Jesus Christ, in
atonement for our
sins and those of the
whole world.
For the sake of his
sorrowful passion,
have mercy on
us and on
the whole
world.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Eternal Father
Apostles’ Creed
Hail Mary
Our Father
Opening prayer
Divine Mercy Novena
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 4: 32-35 / PS 117: 2-4. 13-15.
22-24 / 1 JN 5: 1-6 / JN 20: 19-31
Make the
sign of
the cross
Annunciation Novena

M T W T F S S
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08
15
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16
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14
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April
22
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30
Surrexit Christus, Spes Mea
Monday
08
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
09 10 11
THE ANNUNCIATION
OF THE LORD
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

SHE EXISTED IN THE DIVINE MIND AS AN ETERNAL THOUGHT BEFORE THERE WERE ANY MOTHERS.
SHE IS THE MOTHER OF MOTHERS—SHE IS THE WORLD’S FIRST LOVE.
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
12 13 14
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
P.M.
EVENING
P.M.
EVENING
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 3: 13-15. 17-19 /
PS 4: 2. 4. 7-8. 9 (7A ) / 1 JN 2: 1-5A
/ LK 24: 35-48
O Mother, adorn my heart
with thy love.
Adorn my mind
with thy faith.
Adorn my soul with thy
purity and virtues in fulness,
that I may be made worthy
to be a spouse of Jesus Christ,
the King of Kings, Amen.
Make my heart a garden
in which he may rest and
repose his Sacred Head
O Love Divine!
Come dwell within me.
Make thy abode
within my heart!
My mother's heart is a rose.
In parting the petals, I find
my Jesus there, beautiful
to behold, splendid in white,
shining in radiance. My God,
I love thee, let me sing thy
praises forever! Thou art all
beautiful and good sweetness
and light, joy and peace.
Amen
MARIAMANTE

M T W T F S S
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08
15
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April
22
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30
Surrexit Christus, Spes Mea
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
15 16 17
18
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Our Lady of Good Counsel Novena

CHRIST DOES NOT CALL THE PERFECT, HE PERFECTS THE CALL.
- Trent Horn
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
19 20
21
A Simple
Spiritual Exercise:
A.M.
A.M.
ST ANSELM
A.M.
During the course of the
day, recollect as often as you
can that you stand in the
presence of God. Consider
what he does and what you
are doing. You will find his
eyes turned towards you and
perpetually fixed on you with
an incomparable love.
ST FRANCIS DE SALES
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 4: 8-12 / PS 117: 1. 8-9. 21-23.
26. 28. 29 (22) / 1 JN 3: 1-2 /
JN 10: 11-18
Our Lady of Good Counsel Novena

M T W T F S S
01
08
15
02
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16
03
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11
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19
06
13
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07
14
21
April
22
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Surrexit Christus, Spes Mea
Monday
22
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
23 24 25
ST GEORGE
ST MARK, THE EVANGELIST
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Our Lady of Good Counsel Novena

Friday
A CHEERFUL AND GLAD SPIRIT ATTAINS TO PERFECTION
MUCH MORE READILY THAN A MELANCHOLY SPIRIT.
- St Philip Neri
Saturday
Sunday
26 27 28
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
ST GIANNA MOLLA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 9: 26-31 / PS 21: 26-27. 28.
30. 31-32 (26A) / 1 JN 3: 18-24 /
JN 15: 1-8
Prayer to St Gianna
O God our Father, we praise you
and bless you because in St Gianna
Beretta Molla, you have given to
us a woman who witnessed to the
Gospel, as a young person, a wife,
a mother and a doctor.
We thank you because through the
gift of her life, we learn to accept
and honour every human being.
You, Lord Jesus, were for her a
privileged reference. She was able to
know you in the beauty of nature.
As she questioned her choice of life,
she always sought you and
how to serve you best.
Through her married love she
became a sign of your love for the
Church and for humanity.
Like you, the Good Samaritan,
she stopped at the side of every
sick person, small and weak.
Following your example,
she gave herself entirely out of love,
generating new life.
Holy Spirit, source of every
perfection, grant also to us wisdom,
intelligence and courage so that
through the example of St Gianna's
personal, family and professional
life, and through her intercession,
we too, are able to place ourselves
at the service of every person and
grow in love and holiness.
We ask this through Christ,
our Lord.
Amen

M T W T F S S
01
08
15
02
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16
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10
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April
22
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27
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30
Surrexit Christus, Spes Mea
Monday
29
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
30 01 02
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING

NOTHING SEEMS TIRESOME OR PAINFUL WHEN YOU ARE WORKING FOR A MASTER WHO PAYS WELL;
WHO REWARDS EVEN A CUP OF COLD WATER GIVEN FOR LOVE OF HIM.
- St Dominic Savio
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
03 04 05
75% people
left the
CHURCH
aged 18-29
25% stayed
connected
with CHRIST
aged 18-29
WHY?
#1 Eating dinner as
a family
5 of 7 nights a week.
#2 Serving in a ministry
i
with their families.
ies.
#3 Had at least one
spiritual
experience at home.
#4 Took responsibility ility in
ministry at an early age.
#5 Had at least one
faith-
focused adult in
their lives,
other than their
parents.

May
She looketh well to the ways
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13 14
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08
15
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09
16
03 04 05
10 11 12
17 18 19
of her household, and eateth
not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up and
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call her blessed.
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30
31
- PROVERBS 31: 27-28

A Wise Mother
- PROVERBS 31: 25-30
The characteristics of the wise mother have been an inspiration to women through the ages. I found the following
verse written in my great-grandmother’s handwriting on a piece of paper in my mother’s cabinet.
“She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up and call her blessed.”
In these verses, we are reminded that the work we do in our households can never be undervalued because the
effects of the work, however small or mundane they seem, or how often they are overlooked by the society we live
in, have lasting consequences for the future generations, and indeed heaven. In this work we must not be idle!
We are reminded of the characteristics we must aspire to in order to carry out the enormous duty of forming the
souls entrusted to us: “strength, dignity, wisdom, and teaching in kindness.” Indeed if we focus on these attributes
we will be able to “laugh at the times to come” for knowing that we have done our job to the best of our ability, we
can leave all the rest in God’s hands. It can be daunting to think of the world that our children will go into after they
leave our households but we must trust in God’s plan: they were built for these times and we were built to be their
mother and guide them; it is our path to sanctification.
~ Teresa Quail
WIFE AND MOTHER
Spiritual
Challenge
How can you
be more like
the Wise Mother
this month?

M T W T F S S
06
13
20
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14
21
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08
15
22
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09
16
23
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10
17
24
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11
18
25
05
12
19
26
May
27
28
29
30
31
- The month of Mary -
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
ST JOSEPH THE WORKER
01 02
ST ATHANASIUS
EARLY MAY BANK HOLIDAY
06 07 08 09
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
(ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND)
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
13 14 15 16
ST MATTHIAS
ST SIMON STOCK
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY,
MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
20
BL FRANZ JÄGERSTÄTTER
21
ST RITA OF CASCIA
22 23
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST
ST AUGUSTINE
OF CANTERBURY
SPRING BANK HOLIDAY
MEMORIAL DAY (USA)
27
28
29
30

WHO MORE THAN MARY COULD BE A STAR OF HOPE FOR US? WITH HER “YES” SHE OPENED THE DOOR OF
OUR WORLD TO GOD HIMSELF; SHE BECAME THE LIVING ARK OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM GOD TOOK FLESH,
BECAME ONE OF US, AND PITCHED HIS TENT AMONG US (CF. JN 1:14).
Friday
ST PHILIP AND
ST JAMES, APOSTLES
ST DAMIEN OF MOLOKAI
THE VISITATION OF
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
03 04
10 11
17 18
24 25
31
Saturday
THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
ST BEDE
- Spe Salvi 49
Sunday
MOTHER’S DAY (USA)
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
(IRELAND & USA)
PENTECOST
ST PHILIP NERI
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
05
12
19
26
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31
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
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13
07
14
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08
15
02
09
16
03
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11
18
05
12
19
May
20
21
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24
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29
30
31
Mater mea, fiducia mea
Monday
29
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
30 01 02
ST JOSEPH
THE WORKER
ST ATHANASIUS
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING

BY LIVING UP TO THEIR CALLING, WOMEN WILL SUCCEED IN GUARANTEEING A PROPER RECOGNITION
OF THE UNIQUE VALUE OF FEMININITY AND ITS CRUCIAL MISSION IN THE WORLD.
- Alice von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
03 04 05
Dear Heavenly
Mother,
ST PHILIP AND
ST JAMES, APOSTLES
THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 10: 25-26. 34-35. 44-48 /
PS 97: 1. 2-3. 3-4 (SEE 2B) /
1 JN 4: 7-10 / JN 15: 9-17
Our Lady of Fatima Novena

M T W T F S S
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
May
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Mater mea, fiducia mea
Monday
06
EARLY MAY BANK HOLIDAY
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
07 08 09
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
(ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND)
A.M. A.M. A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Our Lady of Fatima Novena

HE ASCENDED, BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD HAVE CARED ABOUT HEAVEN.
Friday
ST DAMIEN OF MOLOKAI
- St Vincent Ferrer
A.M. A.M. A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
Our Lady of Fatima Novena
Saturday
P.M.
EVENING
Sunday
10 11 12
MOTHER’S DAY (USA)
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
(IRELAND & USA)
P.M.
EVENING
ASCENSION OF THE LORD
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
ACTS 1: 1-11 / PS 46: 2-3. 6-7. 8-9
(6) / EPH 4: 1-13 / MK 16: 15-20
Mary, mother of
the domestic church
May the Virgin Mary,
Mother of the Church, be also
mother of the domestic church.
Through her maternal help,
may every Christian family
truly become a little church
which reflects and relives the
mystery of the Church of Christ.
May you who are the servant
of the Lord, be our example
of a humble and generous welcome
of the will of God!
You who are the mother of sorrows
at the foot of the cross,
be there to lighten our loads,
and wipe away the tears of those
afflicted by family difficulties.
May Christ the Lord,
King of the Universe,
King of families,
be present, as at Cana,
in every Christian home,
to communicate his light, joy,
serenity and strength.
May every family generously
add its share to the coming
of his kingdom on earth.
To Christ and to you,
Mary, we entrust our families.
Amen.
POPE SAINT JOHN PAUL II

M T W T F S S
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13
07
14
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08
15
02
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16
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12
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May
20
21
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Mater mea, fiducia mea
Monday
13
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
14 15 16
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
ST MATTHIAS
ST SIMON STOCK
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

COME HOLY SPIRIT, FILL THE HEARTS OF YOUR FAITHFUL,
AND ENKINDLE IN US THE FIRE OF YOUR LOVE.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
17 18 19
Did you know?
PENTECOST
THE NOVENA BEGAN
WITH THE APOSTLES AT
PENTECOST?
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
After Jesus ascended into
heaven, he asked his apostles
to pray together.
They gathered and after
praying for nine days, on the
ninth day they experienced
the miracle of Pentecost,
in which the Holy Spirit
descended as tongues of
flame.
This was the first novena and
where this tradition has its
origins.
PENTECOST
EVENING
EVENING
VIGIL: GN 11: 1-9 OR EX 19: 3-8A.
16-20B OR EZ 37: 1-4 OR JL 3: 1-5
/ PS 103: 1-2. 24. 35. 27-28. 29. 30 /
ROM 8: 22-27 / JN 7: 37-39.
DAY: ACTS 2: 1-11 / PS 103: 1. 24.
29-30. 31. 34 / 1 COR 12: 3B-7. 12-13
OR GAL 5: 16-25 / SEQUENCE
VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS / JN 20:
19-23 OR JN 15: 26-27; 16: 12-15.

M T W T F S S
06
13
07
14
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08
15
02
09
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12
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May
20
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25
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31
Mater mea, fiducia mea
Monday
20
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
21 22 23
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY,
MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
BL FRANZ JÄGERSTÄTTER
ST RITA OF CASCIA
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST
A.M. A.M.
A.M. A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
- EMBER DAY -

Friday
A.M.
P.M.
THE DEEPER ONE IS DRAWN INTO GOD,
THE MORE ONE MUST “GO OUT OF ONESELF”;
THAT IS, ONE MUST GO TO THE WORLD
IN ORDER TO CARRY THE DIVINE LIFE INTO IT.
- St Edith Stein
Saturday
A.M.
P.M.
Sunday
24 25 26
ST BEDE
ST PHILIP NERI
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
A.M.
P.M.
Eve takes the fruit disobediently
from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. Mary stands
by another tree, the Cross,
which shows us good and evil:
we see the goodness of Jesus
and each wound on his body is
a consequence of our evil. But
Mary resists the temptation to
take the “fruit” from the tree
of the Cross; how much she
desired to take Jesus, fruit of
her womb, down from the Cross
to stop his suffering, yet she
obeyed God’s plan, waiting for
the Resurrection. At that very
moment when her mother’s
heart was fixed on her Son’s
agony, she was called to expand
her motherhood to others, to
John, and, in him, to all of us,
whose sins put her Son
in torment.
EVENING
EVENING
- EMBER DAY - - EMBER DAY -
EVENING
THE HOLY TRINITY
DN 4: 32-34, 39-40 / RM 8: 14-17 /
MT 28: 16-20
If Eve was mother of all the
living, Mary at the Cross became
Mother of the Church, Mother
of all those living supernatural
life through baptism. So close is
she now to Jesus in heaven, that
all his graces flow through her. If
Jesus is the head of the Church,
she is its “neck” as some saints
have said: all the graces of the
head pass through her!
In fact two of her titles, Tower
of David and Tower of Ivory, are
descriptions of the woman’s
neck in the Song of Songs.

M T W T F S S
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
May
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Mater mea, fiducia mea
Monday
27
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
28 29 30
ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY
SPRING BANK HOLIDAY
MEMORIAL DAY (USA)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Novena to the Sacred Heart

Friday
THE VISITATION OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
OUR LIFE SHOULD BE WOVEN THROUGH AND THROUGH
WITH FAITH AND GENEROSITY.
- Bl. Raphaela Mary
Saturday
Sunday
31 01 02
Love and
Humility
We know nothing about the life
of the most holy family, but we
do know that Joseph, Mary, and
the child Jesus were glorifying
God by their very existence,
by their holiness, by their love.
Mary was no “intellectual”; she
was serving her husband and
the blessed fruit of her womb.
Any woman mediating upon this
undeniable fact will be given the
grace of understanding that the
most humble task, done with
love glorifies God infinitely more
than the most elaborate treatise
on theology.
Feminists look down upon
homely tasks as demeaning and
feel that such tasks are unworthy
of them. Mary teaches us that
love and humility are two facets
of the same jewel. What matters
is not so much what we do but
with how much love we do it.
Anyone who loves the Blessed
Virgin and wishes to imitate her
cannot possibly look down upon
house-work as demeaning: it
is meant to be a symphony of
love. Whether it is cooking or
washing, if it is done as a service
to God, it certainly glorifies
him much more than arrogant
“business” or intellectual work.
ALICE VON HILDEBRAND
Novena to the Sacred Heart

June
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The Nursing Mother
and God’s greater compassion for his children
- ISAIAH 49:15
Reflection:
I didn’t feel completely overwhelmed by motherhood until I had my third baby. Driven to my knees in sleep deprived
desperation, I yelled at God. There is not enough of me. I can’t love them in the ways they need. Deep in my heart,
the answer resonated. Let me love you. Yes, this took on a practical bent, like asking for more help – actually allowing
people to help – and admitting I could not do it all. But even more than this, he was inviting me into a deeper
relationship with and reliance on him. My love for my children is deep and consuming and takes my breath away.
But his love for me? There are no words for it. And here is the lynch pin: If he loves me even more than I love my own
children, he will help me love them, with a far greater love than my own, even when I have nothing left to give. So,
at 5:30am, when the toddler bounded into my bedroom after a night of the infant cluster feeding and the five year
old creeping in at 3:00am to talk about her latest nightmare, even before I opened my eyes, I would do a spiritual
communion, and pray: I have nothing left to give. Love me with the love I cannot fathom, so that I can love them.
Somehow, no matter what, moment to moment, against all reasoning and my own natural abilities, I was sustained,
lifted up, and completely enabled to do exactly that.
~ Mary Woodard
WIFE AND MOTHER
Spiritual
Challenge
In this month of June, the month of the Sacred
Heart, let us rest in the Heart of Jesus, allowing
ourselves to feel the compassion and love of
a God who loves us beyond all imagining. In
doing so, we enable ourselves to love beyond
any natural capacity.

M T W T F S S
03
10
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05
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06
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14
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15
02
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16
June
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19
26
20
27
21
28
22
29
23
30
- The month of the Sacred Heart -
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
03 04 05
06
10 11 12
13
OUR LADY OF AKITA
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA
17 18 19
20
JUNETEENTH NATIONAL
HOLIDAY (USA)
THE NATIVITY OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST
24 25
ST JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA
BLESSED YAACOUB
THE CAPUCHIN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
26
27

YOUR HEART TO GOD AND YOUR HANDS TO WORK.
- St Mary Joseph Rossello
Friday
THE MOST SACRED HEART
OF JESUS
ST ALOYSIUS GONZAGA
Saturday
THE IMMACULATE HEART
OF MARY
Sunday
01 02
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND
BLOOD OF CHRIST,
CORPUS CHRISTI
07 08 09
14 15 16
21
28
ST JOHN FISHER
AND ST THOMAS MORE
ST PETER AND ST PAUL
(IRELAND & US)
FATHER’S DAY
22 23
ST ETHELDREDA
29 30
ST PETER AND ST PAUL
(ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
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10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
June
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
27
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
28 29 30
Novena to the Sacred Heart

I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY OTHER EXERCISE IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE THAT IS MORE CALCULATED
TO RAISE A SOUL IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME TO THE HEIGHT OF PERFECTION AND TO MAKE
IT TASTE THE TRUE SWEETNESS TO BE FOUND IN THE SERVICE OF JESUS CHRIST.
- St Margaret Mary
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
31 01 02
A Simple Spiritual
Exercise:
A.M.
P.M.
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND
BLOOD OF CHRIST,
CORPUS CHRISTI
A.M.
P.M.
DISCOVER THE MEANING:
And when night comes, and
you look back over the day
and see how fragmentary
everything has been, and
how much you planned that
has gone undone, and all
the reasons you have to be
embarrassed and ashamed:
just take everything exactly as
it is, put it in God’s hands and
leave it with him.
ST EDITH STEIN
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
EVENING
EVENING
THURSDAY
THE BODY AND BLOOD
OF CHRIST
EX 24: 3-8 / PS 115: 12-13. 15-16. 17-
18 (13) / HEB 9: 11-15 / OPTIONAL
SEQUENCE LAUDA, SION /
MK 14: 12-16. 22-26
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Novena to the Sacred Heart
Novena to the Sacred Heart

M T W T F S S
03
10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
June
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
03
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
04 05 06
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Novena to the Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart Home
HOW FOOLISH ARE THEY WHO TAKE THE GREATEST CARE OF THE LEAST
THINGS, AND THE LEAST CARE OF THE GREATEST THINGS.
- St Bernard
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
07 08 09
Enthronement:
Enthronement to the Sacred
Heart is a fulfilment of a
request Jesus made to St
Margaret Mary in the 1670s
when he said, “I will bless
every place in which an image
of my Heart is exposed and
honoured.”
THE MOST SACRED HEART
OF JESUS
A.M.
THE IMMACULATE
HEART OF MARY
A.M.
A.M.
Jesus promised us, “Behold, I
stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, [then] I will
enter his house and dine with
him, and he with me.” (Rev.
3:20). Lives are transformed
through Enthronement to the
Sacred Heart. Open the door
and welcome His Heart!
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
1. CHOOSE A SUNDAY for the
enthronement ceremony
and attend Mass together.
2. SELECT A SACRED HEART
IMAGE and invite your priest
to bless the image.
3. ESTABLISH A PROMINENT
PLACE in your home where
you will display the image.
Consider placing picures of
family members and friends
near the image.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
4. PREPARE YOUR HEARTS
beginning three days prior
to the enthronement. Recite
the Sacred Heart prayer.
TENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
5. ENTHRONEMENT SUNDAY
Gather together and place
Jesus on the throne of
authority in your home.
GN 3: 9-15 / PS 129: 1-2. 3-4. 5-6.
7-8 (7BC) / 2 COR 4: 13-5: 1 /
MK 3: 20-35
Find out more here
https://welcomehisheart.com

M T W T F S S
03
10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
June
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
10
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
11 12 13
OUR LADY OF AKITA
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THOU MUST NOT KEEP THESE GRACES TO THYSELF, NOR BE SPARING IN
DISTRIBUTING THEM TO OTHERS, FOR I HAVE WILLED TO USE THY HEART AS
A CHANNEL FOR CONVEYING THEM INTO SOULS ACCORDING TO MY DESIGN.
- Jesus to St Margaret Mary
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
14 15 16
FATHER’S DAY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
ELEVENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
EZ 17: 22-24 / PS 91: 2-3. 13-14. 15-
16 / 2 COR 5: 6-10 / MK 4: 26-34
The Twelve Promises
of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus to St Margaret
Mary Alacoque
1. I will give them all the
graces necessary in their
state of life.
2. I will establish peace in
their homes.
3. I will comfort them in all
their afflictions.
4. I will be their secure refuge
during life, and above all,
in death.
5. I will bestow abundant
blessings upon all their
undertakings.
6. Sinners will find in my
Heart the source and
infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Lukewarm souls shall
become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall quickly
mount to high perfection.
9. I will bless every place
in which an image of
my Heart is exposed
and honoured.
10. I will give to priests the
gift of touching the most
hardened hearts.
11. Those who shall promote
this devotion shall have
their names written in
my Heart.
12. I promise you in the
excessive mercy of my
Heart that my-all-powerful
love will grant to all
those who receive Holy
Communion on the First
Fridays in nine consecutive
months the grace of final
perseverance; they shall
not die inmy disgrace, nor
without receiving their
sacraments. My divine
Heart shall be their safe
refuge in this last moment.
Find out more here
https://welcomehisheart.com

M T W T F S S
03
10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
June
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
17
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
18 19 20
JUNETEENTH NATIONAL
HOLIDAY (USA)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

HAVE COURAGE AND DO NOT FEAR THE ASSAULTS OF THE DEVIL.
REMEMBER THIS FOREVER; IT IS A HEALTHY SIGN IF THE DEVIL SHOUTS
Friday
ST ALOYSIUS GONZAGA
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
AND ROARS AROUND YOUR CONSCIENCE, SINCE THIS SHOWS
THAT HE IS NOT INSIDE YOUR WILL.
- St Pio of Pietrelcina
Saturday
ST JOHN FISHER
ST THOMAS MORE
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
Sunday
21 22 23
ST ETHELDREDA
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
TWELFTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JB 38: 1. 8-11 / PS 106: 23-24. 25-
26. 28-29. 30-31 (1B) /
2 COR 5: 14-17 / MK 4: 35-41
O Sacred Heart
of Jesus
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I fly,
I come to thee, throwing myself
into the arms of thy tender mercy.
Thou art my sure refuge, my
unfailing and only hope. Thou hast
a remedy for all my evils, relief for
all my miseries, reparation for all
my faults, Thou canst supply for
what is wanting in me in order to
obtain fully the graces that I ask
for myself and others. Thou art
for me, and for us all, the infallible,
inexhaustible source of light, of
strength, of perseverance, peace and
consolation. I am certain that my
importunity will never weary thee;
certain, too, that thou wilt never
cease to aid, to protect, to love me,
because thy love for me,
O Divine Heart, is infinite.
Have mercy on me then, O Heart of
Jesus, and on all that I recommend
to thee, according to thy own
mercy, and do with us, for us, and
in us, whatsoever thou wilt, for we
abandon ourselves to thee with the
full, entire confidence and conviction
that thou wilt never abandon us
either in time or eternity.
Amen.

M T W T F S S
03
10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
June
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
24
THE NATIVITY OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
25 26 27
ST JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA
BLESSED YAACOUB
THE CAPUCHIN
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Six months to Christmas Eve!

THEY LIFT IT UPON THE SHOULDER AND CARRY IT; THEY SET IT IN ITS PLACE AND IT STANDS THERE.
IT DOES NOT MOVE FROM ITS PLACE. THOUGH ONE MAY CRY TO IT, IT CANNOT ANSWER;
IT CANNOT DELIVER HIM FROM HIS DISTRESS.
- Isaiah 46:7
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
28 29 30
The Holy
Shoulder
A.M.
P.M.
ST PETER AND ST PAUL
(IRELAND & USA)
A.M.
P.M.
ST PETER AND ST PAUL
(ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND)
A.M.
P.M.
Jesus’s Shoulder Wound
Our Lord did not reveal the
most painful part of his
passion until, after 1100 years,
he told St Bernard about his
shoulder wound. He said it
was caused when carrying
his cross. He asked that we
should honour this wound
with devotion and through
its virtue and merits we will
be granted anything we ask.
Jesus’s burial shroud shows
a dislocated right shoulder
and that his right arm was
probably paralysed by
accompanying nerve injury.
FR PATRICK PULLICINO
I adore thee, O Jesus most
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
sorrowful. I praise and glorify
thee and give thee thanks for
your most sacred and painful
shoulder wound.
Find out more about the Holy
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
AC 12: 1-11 / PS 33: 2-9 (R> V.5 OR
V.8) / 2 TIM 4: 6-8, 17-18 /
MT 16: 13-19
Shoulder here:
http://www.cmq.org.uk/
CMQ/2022/Feb/Tension_
Pneumothorax_Christ_
Crucified.html

July
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31

Mother of Our Mother,
Grandmother of Our Lord, Anne
The little we know about St Anne, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus, comes from pious tradition which tells
us that, after long years of infertility, she and her husband Joachim were granted the joy of answered prayers. Filled
with gratitude, Anne and Joachim placed their little daughter into service at the Temple of Jerusalem.
Based on this story and on how many of Jesus’s earthly relatives were steeped in Jewish observance, besides being
directly involved in his earthly ministry (for example, Elizabeth and her son John the Baptist; the cousins James,
Joseph, Simon, Jude and, of course, Mother Mary herself) one can infer with confidence that Mary’s parents were
also devout and God-fearing. Jesus’s family was bathed in the stories and customs, the worship and the hope of
generations. From that, they in turn transmitted their faith in a thousand ways – by keeping the rhythm of daily
prayer, annual fasts and celebrations, and performing delicate acts of charity with boundless generosity.
St Anne, hidden in the shadows of history, nurtured a fertile soil for Jesse’s Root. How do I tend the garden that has
been given to me?
~ Stephanie Block
WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND AUTHOR
Spiritual
Challenge
What more perfect well from
which to draw living water than the Mass.
If you can’t make it to Mass every day,
can you manage one extra Mass
during the week?

M T W T F S S
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08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
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11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
07
14
21
28
July
29
30
31
- The month of the Precious Blood -
Monday
ST JUNIPERO SERRA
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
01 02 03 04
ST THOMAS APOSTLE
ST ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL
INDEPENDENCE DAY (USA)
08 09 10 11
THE MASSABKI BROTHERS
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
ST BENEDICT ABBOT
15 16 17 18
OUR LADY
OF MOUNT CARMEL
ST MARINA
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
ST MARY MAGDALENE
22
ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN
ST LIBORIUS OF LE MANS
23
ST SHARBEL MAKHLUF
(ROMAN CALENDAR)
24 25
ST JAMES
SS MARTHA, MARY & LAZARUS
29
30
ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
31

THE PROBLEM WITH OUR WORLD IS THAT WE DRAW THE CIRCLE OF FAMILY TOO SMALL.
- St Teresa of Calcutta
Friday
Saturday
ST JOACHIM AND ST ANNE
05 06
ST MARIA GORETTI
12 13
19 20
ST ELIJAH THE PROPHET
26 27
Sunday
ST KATERI TEKAKWITHA
ST CHARBEL
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
07
14
21
28
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
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25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monthly
Meal Plan

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08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
06
13
20
07
14
21
July
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
01
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
02 03 04
ST JUNIPERO SERRA
ST THOMAS APOSTLE
ST ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL
INDEPENDENCE DAY (USA)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THE LORD MEASURES OUR PERFECTION NEITHER BY THE MULTITUDE NOR THE MAGNITUDE
OF OUR DEEDS, BUT BY THE MANNER IN WHICH WE PERFORM THEM.
- St John of the Cross
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
05 06 07
ST MARIA GORETTI
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
Do
Small
things
with
great
love
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
EZ 2: 2-5 / PS 123: 1-2. 2. 3-4 /
2 COR 12: 7-10 / MK 6: 1-6

M T W T F S S
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08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
06
13
20
07
14
21
July
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
08
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
09 10 11
THE MASSABKI BROTHERS
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
ST BENEDICT ABBOT
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THE WORLD NO LONGER HEARS GOD BECAUSE IT IS CONSTANTLY SPEAKING,
AT DEVASTATING SPEED AND VOLUME, IN ORDER TO SAY NOTHING.
- Robert Cardinal Sarah
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
12 13 14
Bread of
Heaven
A.M.
A.M.
ST KATERI TEKAKWITHA
A.M.
“We cannot be without the
banquet of the Eucharist, the
table of the Lord to which we are
invited as sons and daughters,
brothers and sisters to receive
the Risen Christ himself, present
in body, blood, soul and divinity
in that Bread of Heaven which
sustains us in the joys and labours
of this earthly pilgrimage.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
“We cannot be without the
Christian community, cannot be
without the house of the Lord,
cannot be without the Lord’s Day.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
“We cannot live as Christians
without participating in the
Sacrifice of the Cross in which
the Lord Jesus gave himself
unreservedly to save, by his death,
humanity which had died because
of sin...in the embrace of the
Crucified One all human suffering
finds light and comfort.”
ROBERT CARDINAL SARAH
FIFTHTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
AM 7: 12-15 / PS 85: 9-10. 11-12. 13-
14 (8) / EPH 1: 3-14 / MK 6: 7-13

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01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
06
13
20
07
14
21
July
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
15
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
16 17 18
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
ST MARINA
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

PRAYER BEGINS BY TALKING TO GOD, BUT IT ENDS BY LISTENING TO HIM.
IN THE FACE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH, SILENCE IS THE SOUL’S LANGUAGE.
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
19 20 21
The Reminder that
Mary is Present
with Us
A.M.
ST ELIJAH THE PROPHET
A.M.
ST CHARBEL
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
“The Scapular is a tangible
symbol and sacramental of
the deeper reality of Mary
clothing and protecting us
with her own mantle. It’s a
sign of consecration to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
and that Mary will assure
the salvation of those
devoted to her.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
“Many times we’re protected
from the Evil One through the
scapular.
“The very fact of a Scapular
around one’s neck is a
reminder Mary is present
with us. That constant visible
sign is a reminder twentyfour
hours a day that Mary
is present in the Church and
she’s surely with us.”
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FATHER MALLEY
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JER 23: 1-6 / PS 23: 1-3. 3-4. 5. 6 (1)
/ EPH 2: 13-18 / MK 6: 30-34

M T W T F S S
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
06
13
20
07
14
21
July
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
22
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
23 24 25
ST MARY MAGDALENE
ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN
ST LIBORIUS OF LE MANS
ST SHARBEL MAKHLUF
(ROMAN CALENDAR)
ST JAMES
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

WE ARE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD…
FROM THE TIME THERE IS CONCEPTION THERE IS THE LIFE OF GOD…
THAT IS WHY IT IS SO WRONG TO DESTROY LIFE,
TO DESTROY THE IMAGE OF GOD.
- St Teresa of Calcutta
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
26 27 28
The Motorist’s
Prayer
ST JOACHIM AND ST ANNE
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
Grant me, O Lord,
a steady hand and watchful eye,
that no one shall be hurt
as I pass by.
You gave life,
I pray no act of mine
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
may take away or
mar that gift of Thine.
Shelter those, dear Lord,
who bear my company
from the evils of fire
and all calamity..
Amen.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
2 KGS 4: 42-44 / PS 145: 10-11. 15-
16. 17-18 / EPH 4: 1-6 / JN 6: 1-15
A useful prayer for those who
are travelling to their holiday
destination and back.

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08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
04
11
18
05
12
19
06
13
20
07
14
21
July
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monday
29
SS MARTHA, MARY & LAZARUS
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
30 31 01
ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

TO GIVE, AND NOT TO COUNT THE COST, TO FIGHT, AND NOT TO HEED THE WOUNDS,
TO TOIL, AND NOT TO SEEK FOR REST, TO LABOUR, AND NOT TO ASK FOR ANY REWARD,
SAVE THAT OF KNOWING THAT WE DO THY WILL.
- St Ignatius of Loyola
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
02 03 04
From a homily for the feast of St Bonaventure:
“What I want is mercy, not sacrifice.” Perhaps it’s the age-old problem of dualism that
afflicts us, because the tendency is to read a statement such as this to mean that
God wants mercy, so we can forget about sacrifice or that it can be neglected; the
temptation is to dichotomise, and to emphasise one at the expense of the other, a
kind of dualism that divides rather than unites. However, this is not Jesus’s meaning.
This formulation of “I want A, not B” is a Hebraicism, a kind of Jewish idiomatic way of
saying that A is the goal, not B, but this doesn’t mean we can ignore B, rather it is the
means to attaining A. So, mercy is God’s desire and aim, and we achieve mercy through
sacrifice. Just think of the sacrifices we might have to make to be merciful to others –
we may have to give up our grudges and anger, sacrifice our cynicism, and give of our
time, energies, and material help to show mercy to others.
Above all, then, God shows his mercy towards us through the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass; Jesus gives us the oblation of himself in the Mass, and so through this sacrifice
we receive the grace of God that heals us, converts us, draws us closer to God. This is
mercy: that we should turn from sin and become more like Christ our God.
FR LAWRENCE LEW O.P.

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Mother and teacher of life
- DEUTERONOMY 6: 6-7
“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up.”
Proverbs 1:8
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
When you hear the word “teacher”, who first comes to your mind? Perhaps a beloved schoolteacher, or a
knowledgeable university lecturer. But another question may shift our perspective a little. Who taught you the most
important life lessons when you were growing up? The odds are that you will think of someone else. The deepest,
most important truths – that we are loved, that we were made by love and for love – are taught by being lived. In
God’s design, He has ordained that this should take place first and most especially in the home, through the loving
example of a child’s parents.
St Edith Stein wrote that “the woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold”, and this
“shelter” is the first place of learning. From the moment of becoming a mother, you implicitly teach your child what
it means to be loved and how to trust in that love, through the nurturing care that you give to them. This bond of
love and trust makes you the ideal guide for your child; you know your child in a way that no-one else can, and so
can speak to their heart in a unique way.
~ Sr Lucy
DOMINICAN SISTER OF ST JOSEPH
Spiritual
Challenge
This month, make a visit to the Blessed
Sacrament with your children, and take the
opportunity to talk to them about our belief
in Jesus’s Real Presence in the Eucharist.

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- The Blessed Sacrament -
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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ST ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI
DEDICATION OF THE BASILICA
OF ST MARY MAJOR
05 06 07
TRANSFIGURATION
OF THE LORD
ST DOMINIC
08
12 13 14
15
ST JANE FRANCES
DE CHANTAL
ST DULCE PONTES
ST MAXIMILIAN KOLBE
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
19 20 21
QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY
22
OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA,
QUEEN OF POLAND
SUMMER BANK HOLIDAY
26 27 29
28
ST MONICA
ST AUGUSTINE

IT IS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT THAT WE FIND STRENGTH. WITHOUT MY DAILY HOLY HOUR
BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, I COULD NOT HAVE LASTED ONE SINGLE DAY.
Friday
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS
ST TERESA BENEDICTA
ST TERESA BENEDICTA OF
OF THE CROSS (EDITH STEIN)
THE CROSS (EDITH STEIN)
Saturday
OUR LADY OF KNOCK
- St Damien, the leper
Sunday
ST ROSE OF LIMA ST BARTHOLOMEW ST LOUIS, KING OF FRANCE
SS MARGARET CLITHEROW,
ANNE LINE & MARGARET WARD
BLESSED ESTEPHAN NEHME
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
02 03 04
ST LAWRENCE
ST JOHN VIANNEY
09 10 11
ST CLARE OF ASSISI
16 17 18
23 24 25
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Monthly
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30 31 01
ST ALPHONSUS
DE LIGUORI
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING

GO TO JESUS. HE LOVES YOU AND IS WAITING FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU MANY
GRACES. HE IS ON THE ALTAR SURROUNDED BY ANGELS ADORING AND PRAYING.
LET THEM MAKE SOME ROOM FOR YOU AND JOIN THEM IN DOING WHAT THEY DO.
- St Mary Joseph Rosello
I will give you a
new heart,
and put a new
spirit in you.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
02 03 04
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS
ST JOHN VIANNEY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
I will take you from the nations, †
and gather you from all the
countries,* and bring you into your
own land.
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, †
and you shall be clean from all
your uncleannesses, *
and from all your idols I will
cleanse you.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
A new heart I will give you, *
and a new spirit I will put within
you; and I will take out of your flesh
the heart of stone *
and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you,†
and cause you to walk in my
statutes *
and be careful to observe
my ordinances.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
You shall dwell in the land *
which I gave to your fathers;
and you shall be my people, *
and I will be your God.
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
EX 16: 2-4. 12-15 /
PS 78: 3-4. 23-24. 25. 54 (24B) /
EPH 4: 17. 20-24 / JN 6: 24-35
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.

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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
06 07 08
DEDICATION OF THE BASILICA
OF ST MARY MAJOR
TRANSFIGURATION
OF THE LORD
ST DOMINIC
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THERE IS MORE SWEETNESS IN ONE HOUR OF PRAYER BEFORE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
THAN IN ALL THE WORLD’S CROWDED THEATRES, AND BRILLIANT DRAWING ROOMS,
AND GIDDY DIVERSIONS, AND SOCIAL GATHERINGS.
- St Gabriel Possenti
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Love
09 10 11
ST TERESA BENEDICTA
OF THE CROSS (EDITH STEIN)
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
ST LAWRENCE
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
ST CLARE OF ASSISI
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
that
cannot
suffer
is not
worthy
of that
name
SAINT CLARE OF ASSISI
NINETEENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
1 KGS 19: 4-8 /
PS 34: 2-3. 4-5. 6-7. 8-9 (9A) /
EPH 4: 30 5: 2 / JN 6: 41-51

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ST JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL
ST DULCE PONTES
ST MAXIMILIAN KOLBE
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

AS A MAN MUST BE BORN BEFORE HE CAN BEGIN TO LEAD HIS PHYSICAL LIFE, SO HE MUST BE BORN
TO LEAD A DIVINE LIFE. THAT BIRTH OCCURS IN THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM. TO SURVIVE, HE MUST BE
NOURISHED BY DIVINE LIFE; THAT IS DONE IN THE SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST.
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
16 17 18
OUR LADY OF KNOCK
ST HELENA, EMPRESS
On your right
stands the queen,
in garments of gold
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
The daughters of kings are among
your loved ones.
On your right stands the queen in
gold of Ophir.
Listen, O daughter, give ear
to my words:
forget your own people and your
father’s house.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
On your right stands the queen,
in garments of gold.
So will the king desire
your beauty:
He is your lord, pay
homage to him.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
They are escorted amid gladness
and joy;
they pass within the palace
of the king.
TWENTIETH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
On your right stands the queen,
in garments of gold.
PRV 9: 1-6 /
PS 34: 2-3. 10-11. 12-13. 14-15 (9A) /
EPH 5: 15-20 / JN 6: 51-58

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QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

HAVE A HOLY HOUR EVERY WEEK. START PRAYING.
PRAY FOR GUIDANCE AND TRUST IN GOD.
- St John Vianney
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
23 24 25
ST ROSE OF LIMA
A.M.
ST BARTHOLOMEW
A.M.
ST LOUIS, KING OF FRANCE
A.M.
As for
me and
my
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
house,
we will
serve the
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Lord
JOSHUA 24:15
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JOS 24: 1-2A. 15-17. 18B / PS 34:
2-3. 16-17. 18-19. 20-21. 22-23 (9A) /
EPH 5: 21-32 / JN 6: 60-69
Meditate on this verse
the whole week!

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OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA,
QUEEN OF POLAND
SUMMER BANK HOLIDAY
ST MONICA
ST AUGUSTINE
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

TAKE REFUGE OFTEN AT THE FEET OF JESUS…MY DEAR ONES, THE VISIT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IS
AN EXTREMELY NECESSARY WAY TO CONQUER THE DEVIL. THEREFORE, GO OFTEN TO VISIT JESUS AND
THE DEVIL WILL NOT COME OUT VICTORIOUS AGAINST YOU.
- St John Bosco
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
30 31 01
SS MARGARET CLITHEROW,
ANNE LINE & MARGARET WARD
BLESSED ESTEPHAN NEHME
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
At the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things
under the earth; and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.

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Mother of Kings,
mother of good counsel
- DEUTERONOMY 6:6-7
On the 19th September 1980 a pregnant mother was rushed to hospital with a severe haemorrhage, and was told by
the doctor that unfortunately her unborn baby was dead. Looking at a crucifix in the hospital room she asked God
to save her child and that if he did so she would consecrate that child to Him. At that same instant the child moved
in her womb. That day a baby boy was born.
That baby was me; the mother? She was my mother.
Through her faith, my mother saved my physical and spiritual life. She brought me into Mother Church! It was
Mother Church who then entrusted me to the care of the Mother of Mothers: Mary who is the Mother of all who in
Baptism are anointed Kings, Prophets and Priests, greater than all the mothers of the Kings of old. She is the true
mother of Kings! But Kings need counsel: Mary is also the Mother of Good Counsel because her practical advice and
direction is above all to trust in the will of God as revealed to us in her Son, Jesus Christ.
~ Fr Paulo Bagini
Spiritual
Challenge
Have you ever told your child their story?
They are children of God, but yours as well.
Mary is their mother, but so are you.
What is their story, which is also your story?
Mary guides us to Christ, but when did
the journey begin?
Meditate on it.

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- The month of the the Seven Sorrows -
30
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
LABOR DAY (USA)
02
ST GREGORY THE GREAT
03 04
05
ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA
09
10 11
12
MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY
16
ST HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
17 18
19
ST PIO OF PIETRELCINA
23 24 25
OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
26
ST JEROME
30

FOOLISH IS HE WHO FOLLOWS THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD,
BECAUSE THESE ARE ALWAYS FLEETING AND BRING MUCH PAIN.
THE ONLY TRUE PLEASURE IS THAT WHICH COMES TO US THROUGH FAITH.
Friday
- Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
Saturday
Sunday
01
1
2
3
4
5
Monthly
Meal Plan
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
06 07 08
EXALTATION OF THE CROSS
ST MATTHEW
NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED
VIRIGN MARY
13 14 15
20
27
21
28
OUR LADY OF SORROWS
SS MICHAEL, GABRIEL &
RAPHAEL, ARCHANGELS
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The Seven Sorrows
Rosary

BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS DESTINED FOR THE FALL AND RISE OF MANY IN ISRAEL,
AND TO BE A SIGN THAT WILL BE CONTRADICTED AND YOU YOURSELF A SWORD
WILL PIERCE SO THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED.
- Luke 2:25-35
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
30 31 01
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
The Seven Sorrows
Time for some Lectio Divina…
Pick one of the Sorrows of
Our Lady, read the passage,
meditate on it and pray!
If you can, do Lectio Divina
on all seven… one a day!!!
1. The prophecy of Simeon
(Luke 2:25-35)
2. The flight into Egypt
(Matthew 2:13-15)
3. Loss of the Child Jesus for
three days (Luke 2:41-50)
4. Mary meets Jesus on his
way to Calvary (Luke 23:27-
31; John 19:17)
5. Crucifixion and Death of
Jesus (John 19:25-30)
6. The body of Jesus being
taken from the Cross
(Psalm 130; Luke 23:50-54;
John 19:31-37)
7. The burial of Jesus (Isaiah
53:8; Luke 23:50-56; John
19:38-42; Mark 15:40-47)
TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
DT 4: 1-2. 6-8 / PS 15: 2-3. 3-4. 4-5
(1A) / JAS 1: 17-18. 21B-22. 27 /
MK 7: 1-8. 14-15. 21-23

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Thursday
03 04 05
LABOR DAY (USA)
ST GREGORY THE GREAT
ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

REMEMBER THAT THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS ONE OF ACTION; NOT OF SPEECH AND DAYDREAMS.
LET THERE BE FEW WORDS AND MANY DEEDS, AND LET THEM BE DONE WELL.
- St Vincent Pallotti
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
06 07 08
My Prayer
Space
NATIVITY OF BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
IS 50: 5-9 / PS 114: 1-6, 8-9. R. V.9 /
JAS 2: 14-18 / MK 8: 27-35

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Thursday
10 11 12
MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

YOU MUST PRACTISE FIRST, ALL THAT YOU DESIRE TO TEACH OTHERS.
- St Bernardine of Siena
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
13 14 15
The Most Holy
Name of Mary
EXALTATION OF THE CROSS
OUR LADY OF SORROWS
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
IS 50: 5-9 / PS 114: 1-6, 8-9. R. V.9 /
JAS 2: 14-18 / MK 8: 27-35

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Thursday
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ST HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
- EMBER DAY -

HAPPINESS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY LOOKING INWARD
AND LEARNING TO ENJOY WHATEVER LIFE HAS, AND THIS REQUIRES
TRANSFORMING GREED INTO GRATITUDE.
- St John Chrysostom
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
20 21 22
A.M.
ST MATTHEW
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
WIS 2: 12. 17-20 / PS 54: 3-4. 5. 6-8
- EMBER DAY -
- EMBER DAY -
(6B) / JAS 3: 16-4:3 / MK 9: 30-37
Canticle
of the Sun
Most High, all-powerful, all-good
Lord, all praise is yours, all glory,
honour and blessings.
To you alone, Most High, do they
belong; no mortal lips are worthy
to pronounce your name.
We praise you, Lord, for all your
creatures, especially for Brother
Sun, who is the day through
whom you give us light.
And he is beautiful and radiant
with great splendour, of you Most
High, he bears your likeness.
We praise you, Lord, for Sister
Moon and the stars, in the
heavens you have made them
bright, precious and fair.
We praise you, Lord, for Brothers
Wind and Air, fair and stormy, all
weather’s moods, by which you
cherish all that you have made.
We praise you, Lord, for Sister
Water, so useful, humble,
precious and pure.
We praise you, Lord, for Brother
Fire, through whom you light
the night.
He is beautiful, playful, robust,
and strong.
We praise you, Lord, for Sister
Earth, who sustains us with
her fruits, coloured flowers,
and herbs.
We praise and bless you, Lord,
and give you thanks, and serve
you in all humility.
EXTRACT FROM
CANTICLE OF THE SUN,
BY ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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ST PIO OF PIETRELCINA
OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

A SINGLE ‘BLESSED BE GOD’ IN ADVERSITY IS WORTH MORE THAN
A THOUSAND ACTS OF THANKSGIVING IN PROSPERITY.
’
- St John of Avila
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
27 28 29
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
SS MICHAEL, GABRIEL &
RAPHAEL, ARCHANGELS
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
Blessed
be God
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
NM 11: 25-29 / PS 19: 8. 10. 12-13.
14 (9A) / JAS 5: 1-6 / MK 9: 38-43.
45. 47-48

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Thursday
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ST JEROME
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
Our Lady of the Rosary Novena

TURN YOUR EYES INCESSANTLY TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN; SHE, WHO IS THE MOTHER OF SORROWS AND
ALSO THE MOTHER OF CONSOLATION, CAN UNDERSTAND YOU COMPLETELY AND HELP YOU.
- Pope St John Paul II
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
04 05 06
The Divine
Shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in
green pastures;
he leads me beside
still waters;
he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through
the darkest valley,
I fear no evil;
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff—
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the
house of the Lord
my whole life long.
PSALM 23
Our Lady of the Rosary Novena

October
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my
mother’s womb.
M T W T F S S
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14
21
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02
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16
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I praise you because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
28
29
30
31
- PSALM 139

Mother of Our Mother,
a service and a place of honour
- PSALM 139
Imagine a child lying at peace in its mother’s arms. Now ask yourself: who in this image could be saying the words
of this Psalm? It’s not as straightforward a question as it might seem. Both mother and child can speak these words
of the Psalm to God, their Creator. But some of these words can be addressed by the child to the mother. She
has played an important role in bringing him into the world, co-operating freely in God’s work of his creation and
allowing him to be knit together safely in her womb.
God could have brought about His plan for our salvation in any way He wanted, and what He has chosen to do
is to work through Christian motherhood – your Christian motherhood. He has chosen to bring new life into this
world through your free choice to be open to this gift and your commitment to welcoming it in love. The service of
Christian motherhood is not drudgery, but honour: the honour of taking part in the very work of God, who creates
each child “fearfully and wonderfully,” and entrusts you with the privilege of helping these children, by His grace, to
become saints.
~ Sr Carino
DOMINICAN SISTER OF ST JOSEPH
Spiritual
Challenge
October is the month of the Holy Rosary.
When you pray the Rosary, reflect on
how Our Lady Mary’s acts of motherhood
help her son Jesus, our Saviour, to carry
out his ministry.
What does this reveal to you about
your role as a mother in God’s plan?

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
- The month of the Holy Rosary -
Monday
Tuesday
ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
Wednesday
Thursday
01 02 03
THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
07 08 09 10
ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
THANKSGIVING DAY (CANADA)
COLUMBUS DAY (USA)
14 15 16 17
ST TERESA OF AVILA
ST MARGARET MARY
ALACOQUE
21
ST JOHN PAUL II
22
23 24
ST SIMON AND ST JUDE,
APOSTLES
28
29
30
31

THE ROSARY IS THE BEST THERAPY FOR THESE DISTRAUGHT, UNHAPPY, FEARFUL AND FRUSTRATED
SOULS PRECISELY BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE SIMULTANEOUS USE OF THREE POWERS: THE PHYSICAL,
THE VOCAL AND THE SPIRITUAL, AND IN THAT ORDER.
Friday
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
ST LUKE, EVANGELIST
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Saturday
04 05
ST FAUSTINA
11 12
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR
BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS
18 19
SS JOHN DE BREBEUF &
ISAAC JOGUES & COMPANIONS
25 26
Sunday
13
ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Follow and pray the rosary through the month of October
06
20
27
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
Monday
30
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
01 02 03
ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
A.M. A.M. A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Our Lady of the Rosary Novena
Our Lady of the Rosary Novena

IF YOU PERSEVERE IN RECITING THE ROSARY,
THIS WILL BE A MOST PROBABLE SIGN OF YOUR ETERNAL SALVATION.
- Bl. Alan de la Roche
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
04 05 06
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
ST FAUSTINA
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
A Rosary
Meditation
“A sower went out to sow.”
In this parable Our Lord
imagines the world to be a
great ploughed field ready
for sowing. The seed is the
Word of God, as Jesus explains
to his disciples. The seed that
falls on fertile ground bears
very much fruit. We can think
of the beads of the Rosary in
the same way. Each bead is
a seed, and when we pray it,
we are broadcasting the good
seed of the Gospel. Every Our
Father and Hail Mary and
Glory Be are seeds falling
into the hungry earth and
producing great fruit.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FR NEIL FERGUSON O.P.
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
GN 2: 18-24 / PS 128: 1-2. 3. 4-5. 6 /
HEB 2: 9-11 / MK 10: 2-16
Our Lady of the Rosary Novena

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
Monday
07
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
08 09 10
ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THE ROSARY IS THE ‘WEAPON’ FOR THESE TIMES.
- St Pio of Pietrelcina
Friday
P.M.
Saturday
A.M.
P.M.
Sunday
11 12 13
A.M.
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR
BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS
ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
A.M.
P.M.
A Rosary
Meditation
The Hail Mary tells us all we
need to know about Jesus
and Mary. It is a doctrinal
compendium. In the first
half we pray “Blessed is the
fruit of thy womb, Jesus.”
Now what grows in the womb
of a mother is a human child.
So, we can see here the full
humanity of Jesus.
In part two we say “Holy
Mary, Mother of God.” Here
we profess the full divinity
of Jesus, and Mary’s
motherhood. Jesus is God
and Mary is his mother.
Mary conceives the Divine
Person Jesus in his full
divinity and humanity.
This is true theology.
FR NEIL FERGUSON O.P.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
WIS 7: 7-11 /
PS 90: 12-13. 14-15. 16-17 (14) /
HEB 4: 12-13 / MK 10: 17-30

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
Monday
14
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
15 16 17
THANKSGIVING DAY (CANADA)
COLUMBUS DAY (USA)
ST TERESA OF AVILA
ST MARGARET MARY
ALACOQUE
A.M.
A.M. A.M. A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

SAY THE HOLY ROSARY. BLESSED BE THAT MONOTONY OF HAIL MARYS
WHICH PURIFIES THE MONOTONY OF YOUR SINS!
- St Josemaria Escriva
Friday
P.M.
Saturday
A.M.
P.M.
Sunday
18 19 20
ST LUKE, EVANGELIST
A.M.
SS JOHN DE BREBEUF &
ISAAC JOGUES & COMPANIONS
A.M.
P.M.
A Rosary
Meditation
The Rosary opens up for us a
whole wonderful supernatural
universe. Not only do we
enter into the heart of the
Incarnation of Jesus, but
we are reminded also of
our companions the angels.
The Hail Mary begins with
the angelic salutation from
Gabriel to Our Lady. The
Annunciation is the still point
of the turning world, and vast
realms of angels await Mary’s
reply. As we pray the Rosary,
we worship God with all the
choirs of angels in heaven,
and we bring great joy to our
own dear Guardian Angel.
Indeed, our own angel
prays along with us.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FR NEIL FERGUSON O.P.
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
IS 53: 10-11 /
PS 33: 4-5. 18-19. 20. 22 (22) /
HEB 4: 14-16 / MK 10: 35-45

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
Monday
21
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
22 23 24
ST JOHN PAUL II
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

IT IS THROUGH THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THAT JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD,
AND IT IS ALSO THROUGH HER THAT HE WILL REIGN IN THE WORLD.
- St Louis de Montfort
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
25 26 27
A Rosary
Meditation
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
“If only I can touch the fringe
of his garment I will be
healed.” The afflicted woman
in the Gospel has such great
faith in Jesus she believes
that just by touching the
hem of his tunic she will be
healed. Jesus is fully present
to her but she touches just
the hem. Jesus is present to
us Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity in the Eucharist, but
our various sacramentals are
like the hem of his garment.
Above all, the Rosary is like
the fringe of his cloak, but
touching it and praying with
faith we too can be healed.
FR NEIL FERGUSON O.P.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
THIRTIETH SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
JER 31: 7-9 / PS 126: 1-2. 2-3. 4-5. 6
(3) / HEB 5: 1-6 / MK 10: 46-52

M T W T F S S
07
14
21
01
08
15
22
02
09
16
23
03
10
17
24
04
11
18
25
05
12
19
26
06
13
20
27
October
28
29
30
31
Monday
28
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
29 30 31
ST SIMON AND ST JUDE,
APOSTLES
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

TO RECITE THE ROSARY IS NOTHING OTHER THAN TO CONTEMPLATE THE FACE OF CHRIST WITH MARY.
- Pope St John Paul II
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
01 02 03
This Week’s
Rosary Intentions:

November
M T W T F S S
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30

A Widow Mother
- 1 KINGS 17: 7-16
Becoming a widow is shocking! You don’t ask for it and you certainly don’t want it, but what can you do? If you
have children, then you continue to do what you have always done – feed them! This is our natural instinct from the
moment they are born. We feed them. But what if there is nothing left? The widow in the passage does this for her
son and a stranger, Elijah, but what then?
Fear not!
Does the Father abandon his children? Does the Father abandon the one who has co-operated with Him in creating
these children? No. We are all children of God and God the Father does not abandon us. The hardest thing for us is
to allow ourselves to be loved, to surrender ourselves to the one who loves us infinitely. To trust that all will be well.
Mary, our blessed Mother, was told “fear not”. She too became a widow. She too was a mother. She understands.
So lean on the one who loves you. Allow yourself to be held by those loving arms. Trust in the word of the Lord for He
knows our needs and He will provide. For His love never ends.
~ Bernadette
WIFE AND MOTHER
Spiritual
Challenge
Recite 3 Hail Marys daily
for the whole month
of November.
Ask for trust in the Lord.

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
25
19
26
20
27
21
28
22
29
23
30
24
- The month of the Holy Souls -
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
ST CHARLES BORROMEO
04 05 06
07
ST MARTIN OF TOURS
VETERANS’ DAY (USA)
11 12 13
ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI
(USA)
14
ST ROSE PHILIPPINE
DUCHESNE
18 19 20
ST EDMUND,
KING AND MARTYR
PRESENTATION OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
21
ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
25 26 27
28
ST CATHERINE LABOURE
THANKSGIVING DAY (USA)

THE SAINTS MUST BE HONOURED AS FRIENDS OF CHRIST AND CHILDREN AND HEIRS OF GOD... LET US
EMULATE THEIR FAITH, CHARITY, HOPE, ZEAL, LIFE, PATIENCE UNDER SUFFERING AND PERSEVERANCE
UNTO DEATH SO THAT WE MAY ALSO SHARE THEIR CROWNS OF GLORY.
Friday
ALL SAINTS
ST ALBERT THE GREAT
ST CECILIA
Saturday
ALL SOULS
DEDICATION OF THE
LATERAN BASILICA
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND
ST ANDREW, APOSTLE
- St John Damascene
Sunday
01 02 03
08 09 10
ST LEO THE GREAT
REMEMBERANCE DAY (UK)
15 16 17
ST ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY
22 23 24
29 30
ST MARTIN DE PORRES
CHRIST THE KING
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monthly
Meal Plan

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
28
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
29 30 31

JESUS SAID TO HER, “I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE;
HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE DIE, YET SHALL HE LIVE.”
- John 11:25
Remembering
Our Dead
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
01 02 03
ALL SAINTS
ALL SOULS
ST MARTIN DE PORRES
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
HAVE A MASS OFFERED
FOR THE DECEASED OF
YOUR FAMILY
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
DT 6: 2-6 /
PS 18: 2-3. 3-4. 47. 51 (2) /
HEB 7: 23-28 / MK 12: 28B-34

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
04
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
05 06 07
ST CHARLES BORROMEO
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Advent is near!
REMEMBER TO ORDER
SUPPLIES TO MAKE YOUR
ADVENT WREATH.

AS WE ENTER HEAVEN, WE WILL SEE THEM, SO MANY OF THEM, COMING
TOWARDS US AND THANKING US. WE WILL ASK WHO THEY ARE, AND THEY
WILL SAY “A POOR SOUL YOU PRAYED FOR IN PURGATORY.”
A Prayer
for the
Forgotten Dead
- Archbishop Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Friday
P.M.
EVENING
Saturday
DEDICATION OF THE
LATERAN BASILICA
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
Sunday
08 09 10
A.M.
ST LEO THE GREAT
REMEMBERANCE DAY (UK)
A.M.
P.M.
EVENING
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
1 KGS 17: 10-16 / PS 146: 7. 8-9.
9-10 (1B) / HEB 9: 24-28 /
MK 12: 38-44 OR MK 12: 41-44
O merciful God, take pity on those
souls who have no particular
friends and intercessors to
recommend them to Thee, who,
either through the negligence of
those that are alive, or through
length of time are forgotten by
their friends and by all. Spare
them, O Lord, and remember Thine
own mercy, when others forget to
appeal to it. Let not the souls which
Thou hast created be parted from
Thee, their Creator. They are Thy
work, and though they have sinned,
they have been redeemed by Thee.
Vouchsafe, therefore, to look upon
them and to deliver them from the
intolerable pain of absence from
Thee; the light and love of all
Thy creatures. O, place them in the
number of Thy blessed Saints and
citizens through Jesus
Christ their Saviour.
Amen.
MARIANNHILL MISSION SOCIETY

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
11
ST MARTIN OF TOURS
VETERANS’ DAY (USA)
Tuesday
Wednesday
ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI
(USA)
Thursday
12 13 14
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

THE FIRE OF PURGATORY IS THE SAME AS THE FIRE OF HELL;
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM IS THAT THE FIRE OF PURGATORY IS NOT EVERLASTING.
- St John Vianney
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
15 16 17
ST ALBERT THE GREAT
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND ST ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY
Prayer for
the Holy Souls
in Purgatory
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
LORD,
JESUS CHRIST,
THROUGH YOUR PAINFUL
CRUCIFIXION,
WHICH
YOU SUFFERED SO
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
PATIENTLY FOR US
SINNERS,
WE ASK YOU
TO HAVE MERCY ON
THE HOLY SOULS IN
PURGATORY! TURN
YOUR HOLY FACE
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
TOWARD THEM AND LET
THEM TODAY BE IN
PARADISE WITH YOU!
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME
DN 12: 1-3 / PS 16: 5. 8. 9-10. 11 (1) /
HEB 10: 11-14. 18 / MK 13: 24-32

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
18
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
19 20 21
ST ROSE PHILIPPINE
DUCHESNE
ST EDMUND,
KING AND MARTYR
PRESENTATION OF THE
BLESSED VIRIGIN MARY
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

WITH CHARITY TOWARDS THE DEAD WE PRACTISE ALL THE WORKS OF CHARITY.
THE CHURCH ENCOURAGES US TO AID THE SOULS IN PURGATORY, WHO IN TURN
WILL REWARD US ABUNDANTLY WHEN THEY COME INTO THEIR GLORY.
- St Francis de Sales
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
22 23 24
ST CECILIA
CHRIST THE KING
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
¡viva
LONG LIVE
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
christo
CHRIST
rey!
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
THE KING
CHRIST THE KING
(THIRTY-FOURTH AND LAST
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME)
DN 7: 13-14 / PS 93: 1. 1-2. 5 (1A) /
RV 1: 5-8 / JN 18: 33B-37

M T W T F S S
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
01
08
15
02
09
16
03
10
17
November
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Monday
25
ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
26 27 28
ST CATHERINE LABOURE
THANKSGIVING DAY (USA)
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

IF, DURING LIFE, WE HAVE BEEN KIND TO THE SUFFERING SOULS IN PURGATORY,
GOD WILL SEE THAT HELP BE NOT DENIED US AFTER DEATH.
- St Paul of the Cross
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
29 30 01
The Baby
in Church
ST ANDREW, APOSTLE
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
A 1924 article comforting
couples taking their
babies to church.

December
M T W T F S S
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
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27
28
29
30
31

Mother of all mothers
- THEOTOKOS, DEI GENITRIX, GOD BEARER
Meditation.
We have reached Advent, and the time is full of expectation. The Blessed Mother, heavily pregnant with the Word of
God, has carried Christ in her womb for nine months. But her expectation does not end in a fanfare, or with great
splendour, but in her simply looking in wonder at her tiny baby. There, as Mary looked at Jesus, Mary became who
she was always meant to be, his Mother. But there is a further mystery here which concerns another birth. Some
thirty-three years later, at the foot of the cross, in another look between Jesus and Mary, the Church was born. Here
Mary took us into her own heart, to love each of us personally and tenderly. Maybe this is part of the deep mystery
of Motherhood: that the addition of more children does not diminish the love for the children we already have, but
that we find our hearts expanded to give and receive more life and love. Surely this is the meaning of Christmas:
that Christ came, through his Mother, and made each of us capable of loving in ways we could not have imagined
or even dreamt of.
~ Fr Mark Wharton
Spiritual
Challenge
Each of your children is unique and in
making you his or her mother, God has
given you special and specific graces.
Taking each of your children
in turn, what graces has God
given you in making you their mother
specifically?
What are you most
grateful for?

M T W T F S S
01
02
09
03
10
04
11
05
12
06
13
07
14
08
15
December
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
- The month of Preparation for the Coming of Christ -
30
31
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
02
ST FRANCIS XAVIER
03 04
05
ST JUAN DIEGO
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
09
OUR LADY OF LORETO
10 11
12
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
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O WISDOM
O SAPIENTIA
17 18
19
O ADONAI
O ROOT OF JESSE
O RADIX JESSE
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26
O EMMANUEL
CHRISTMAS EVE
NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHRISTMAS
ST STEPHEN
30 31
ST SYLVESTER
NEW YEAR’S EVE

IN THE INNER STILLNESS WHERE MEDITATION LEADS, THE SPIRIT SECRETLY ANOINTS THE SOUL
AND HEALS OUR DEEPEST WOUNDS.
- St John of the Cross
Friday
ST NICHOLAS
ST LUCY
O KEY OF DAVID
O CLAVIS DAVID
ST JOHN, THE APOSTLE
Saturday
HOLY INNOCENTS
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
Sunday
06 07 08
13 14 15
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27
ST AMBROSE
ST JOHN OF THE CROSS
O RADIANT DAWN
O ORIENS
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28
O KING OF ALL NATIONS
O REX GENTIUM
ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI
ST THOMAS BECKET
THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS,
MARY AND JOSEPH
HOLY INNOCENTS
OF BETHLEHEM
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
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Meal Plan

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THE BUSINESS DONE IN THE HOME IS NOTHING LESS THAN
THE SHAPING OF THE BODIES AND SOULS OF HUMANITY.
- G. K. Chesterton
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
29 30 01
A.M.
P.M.
Let us never forget
“Let us daily practise charity. God
is love. He who loves is in God and
God in him. Let us never forget
to offer every day, nay, every
moment, our actions to God,
doing all things for love....Love
truth; show yourself as you are,
without pretence, without fears
and cares. And if the truth means
your persecution, accept it; if it
means your torment, bear it. And
if for the truth’s sake you should
sacrifice yourself and your life, be
strong in your sacrifice.”
ST GIUSEPPE MOSCATI
EVENING
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
JER 33: 14-16 / PS 25: 4-5. 8-9. 10.
14 (1B) / 1 THES 3: 12 4: 2 /
LK 21: 25-28. 34-36

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ST FRANCIS XAVIER
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

IT’S YOUR OBLIGATION TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND EVERYONE CAN EITHER TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
BUT TRUTH MUST BE IN US. WE LIVE IN SUCH A POVERTY OF TRUTH TODAY.
- Mother Angelica
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
06 07 08
ST NICHOLAS
ST AMBROSE
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
BAR 5: 1-9 / PS 126: 1-2. 2-3. 4-5. 6
(3) / PHIL 1: 4-6. 8-11 / LK 3: 1-6

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ST JUAN DIEGO
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
OUR LADY OF LORETO
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING

IF WE WISH TO MAKE ANY PROGRESS IN THE SERVICE OF GOD WE MUST BEGIN EVERY DAY OF OUR LIFE
WITH NEW ARDOUR. WE MUST KEEP OURSELVES IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND
HAVE NO OTHER VIEW OR END IN ALL OUR ACTIONS BUT THE DIVINE HONOUR.
- St Charles Borromeo
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
13 14 15
ST LUCY
ST JOHN OF THE CROSS
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
ZEP 3: 14-18A / IS 12: 2-3. 4. 5-6 (6)
/ PHIL 4: 4-7 / LK 3: 10-18

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EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
- EMBER DAY -
Christmas Day Novena

FATHER, I AM SEEKING: I AM HESITANT AND UNCERTAIN, BUT WILL YOU, O GOD,
WATCH OVER EACH STEP OF MINE AND GUIDE ME.
- St Augustine of Hippo
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
20 21 22
ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
- EMBER DAY - - EMBER DAY -
MI 5: 1-4A / PS 80: 2-3. 15-16. 18-19
(4) / HEB 10: 5-10 / LK 1: 39-45
Christmas Day Novena

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CHRISTMAS EVE
NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHRISTMAS DAY
ST STEPHEN
A.M.
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
Christmas Day Novena

THE HEAVENS PROCLAIM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL PEOPLES SEE HIS GLORY.
- Psalm 97:6
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
27 28 29
Reflections on the
past year:
ST JOHN, APOSTLE
A.M.
THE HOLY INNOCENTS
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
ST THOMAS BECKET
THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS,
MARY AND JOSEPH
HOLY INNOCENTS
OF BETHLEHEM
(MARONITE CALENDAR)
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING
EVENING
HOLY FAMILY
1 SM 1: 20-22. 24-28 OR SIR 3: 2-6.
12-14 / PS 84: 2-3. 5-6. 9-10 /
1 JN 3: 1-2. 21-24 OR COL 3: 12-21 /
LK 2: 41-52

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ST SYLVESTER
NEW YEAR’S EVE
A.M.
A.M.
P.M.
P.M.
EVENING
EVENING

“I WISH IT NEED NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN MY TIME,” SAID FRODO. “SO DO I,” SAID GANDALF, “AND
SO DO ALL WHO LIVE TO SEE SUCH TIMES. BUT THAT IS NOT FOR THEM TO DECIDE. ALL WE HAVE TO
DECIDE IS WHAT TO DO WITH THE TIME THAT IS GIVEN US.”
- J R R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
03 04 05
Twelve Things
THESE ARE TWELVE OF MY
FAVOURITE THINGS OF 2024:
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The Maronite Church:
The Maronite Church is one of those branches in full communion with the Pope
and the Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the
Eastern Churches. It is headed by Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi since 2011
and seated in Bkerke northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. His Beatitude was made a
Cardinal on 24 November 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.
------
St Charbel Makhlouf was a Maronite monk and priest from Lebanon. During his
life he obtained a wide reputation for holiness and he has been canonized by
the Catholic Church. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the “Miracle
Monk of Lebanon.” St Charbel is the Patron of Lebanon.
Liza Abouharb, @MaroniteMum
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Gabriel at the Table
- after a poem by Edip Cansever
An angel full of the radiance of God
Shed his light on the table.
He tried not to alarm her
But he was more powerful than a galaxy
And was called ‘The strength of God’ for a reason.
She looked at the light on the table
That came from nowhere.
He placed his bright words on the table
Heavier than the whole universe
Lighter than all the worlds
both seen and unseen
He put the news on the table
Beside the flowering olive tree
The words of fire.
The waiting
With which the heavenly court were waiting
He held in his eternal heart
He placed it beside a stone cup
On the table of the small house.
He placed her question on the table
What should he reply? How to explain?
Had he been briefed for this?
Only trusted

“The Holy Spirit will cover you with its Shadow
The Holy One to be born
Will be called the Son of God.”
Her eyes fixed on the table
He saw that she saw
Something of the immensity that was laid before her.
He looked out and saw across the Judean countryside
to the far hill country
He brought this thought of her cousin Elizabeth
She who was barren in her old age
Now like an olive shoot around the table.
And she looked up
For no Word from God was ever known to fail
Around that table.
He heard her words with a joy
That would fill all heaven with their radiance
“May your Word be fulfilled in me”
And the window opened
And the sun could not have shone more brightly
As it danced that day
Across the table.
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Prayers
COMMON PRAYERS
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Anima Christi
Guardian Angel Prayer
Apostles’ Creed
Memorare
Act of Spiritual Communion
Prayer to send your
Guardian Angel to Mass
PRAYERS THROUGHOUT THE DAY
The Benedictus
Morning Offering
The Angelus
The Regina Caeli
The 3 O’Clock Prayer to
the Divine Mercy
The Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis
The Shoulder Wound of Jesus
FATIMA PRAYERS
The Pardon Prayer
The Angel’s Prayer
The Sacrifice Prayer
NOVENA PRAYERS
Espousal of Mary and Joseph
Saints Joachim and Anne
PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE
The Mother of all Living, Eve
The Mother of Joseph, Rachel
The Two Mothers of Moses
Naomi and Ruth
A Wise Mother
The Nursing Mother and God’s
Greater Compassion for His
Children
The Magnificat
Mother and Teacher of Life
Mother of Kings, Mother of Good
Counsel
Motherhood, a Service and a Place
of Honour
A Widow Mother
But Mary treasured up all these
things and pondered them in her
heart
My Special Prayers

Novena Tracker
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Prayers
Our Father
Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, make me holy. Body of Christ,
be my salvation. Blood of Christ, let me drink your wine.
Water flowing from the side of Christ, wash me clean.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me. Kind Jesus, hear my prayer.
Hide me within your wounds
and keep me close to you.
Defend me from the evil enemy
and call me at the hour of my death
to the fellowship of your saints
that I might sing your praise with them for all eternity.
Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Guardian Angel Prayer
Angel of God, my Guardian dear,
to whom God’s love commits me here,
ever this day (or night) be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide.
Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.

Common Prayers
Apostles' Creed
I believe in God,
the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, Our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into Heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there he will come to judge
the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen.
Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the
Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things
and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I
cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself
wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession
was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence,
I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;
to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer them.
Amen.
Prayer to send your
Guardian Angel to Mass
O Holy Angel at my side, go to Church for me,
kneel in my place, at Holy Mass, where I desire to be.
At Offertory, in my stead, take all I am and own and
place it as a sacrifice upon the altar throne.
At Holy Consecration’s bell, adore with seraph’s love,
my Jesus hidden in the Host, come down from heaven above.
Then pray for those I dearly love, and those who
cause me grief, that Jesus’s Blood may cleanse all hearts,
and suffering souls relieve.
And when the priest Communion takes, oh, bring my Lord
to me, that His sweet Heart may rest on mine,
and I His temple be.
Pray that this Sacrifice Divine, may mankind’s sins
efface; then bring me Jesus’s blessing home,
the pledge of every grace.
Amen.

Prayers
The Benedictus
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people,
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us that we, being delivered
from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear, in holiness and
righteousness before him all the days of our life.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
through the tender mercy of our God,
when the day shall dawn upon us from on high to give
light to those who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
(Lk 1:68-79) - To be said in the morning
Morning Offering
O Jesus, through the most pure heart of Mary,
I offer you all my prayers, thoughts, works
and sufferings of this day for all the intentions
of your most Sacred Heart.
O most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust
in you. O most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place
all my trust in you. O most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
I place all my trust in you.
The Angelus
V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived by the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary...
V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
R. Be it done unto me according to thy word.
Hail Mary...
V. And the Word was made Flesh.
R. And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary...
V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy
grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the Incarnation
of Christ, thy Son, was made known by the message of an
angel, may by his Passion and Cross be brought
to the glory of his Resurrection. Through the same Christ
our Lord.
R. Amen.
The Regina Caeli
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
For he whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.
Has risen, as he said, alleluia.
Pray for us to God, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray; O God, who gave joy to the world through the
resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we
beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin
Mary, his Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting
life. Through the same Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Prayers throughout the day
The Magnificat
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God
my saviour, for he has regarded the low estate of his
handmaiden.
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;
for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and
holy is his name.
And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation
to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered
the proud in the imagination of their hearts, he has put
down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of
low degree;
he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he
has sent empty away.
He has helped his servant Israel, in rememberance of his
mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his
posterity for ever.
(Lk 1:46-55) - To be said in the evening
The 3 O'Clock Prayer
to the Divine Mercy
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth
for souls and the ocean of mercy opened up for the
whole world.
O Fountain of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy,
cover the whole world and empty yourself out upon us.
O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the heart
of Jesus as a Fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in you!
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One,
have mercy on us and the whole world. (3 times)
Jesus, King of Mercy, we trust in you!
Nunc Dimittis
Lord, now let your servant depart in peace,
according to your word;
for my eyes have seen your salvation
which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.
(Lk 2:29-32)
Prayer to the Shoulder
Wound of Jesus
O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner,
salute and worship the most sacred wound of thy
shoulder on which thou didst bear thy heavy Cross,
which so tore thy Flesh and laid bare thy Bones as to
inflict on thee an anguish greater than any other wound
of thy most blessed body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most
sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give thee thanks
for this most sacred and painful wound, beseeching thee
by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of thy
heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me
all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards
heaven along the way of thy Cross.
Amen.

Fatima Prayers
The Pardon Prayer
The Sacrifice Prayer
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee!
I beg pardon for all those that do not believe,
do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.
O Jesus, it is for the love of thee,
in reparation for the offences committed
against the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
and for the conversion of poor sinners
[that I do this].
The Angel's Prayer
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ
present in all the tabernacles of the world,
in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and
indifferences by which he is offended.
By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
I beg the conversion of poor sinners.

Novena Prayers
Espousal of Mary
and Joseph
Hail to our patrons, happy songs we tender,
As we observe the day of their chaste wedding,
Anew the faithful enjoy the holy splendour
Shining about them,
How beautiful thou art, O Virgin Mary,
The trinity has covered thee with graces
The lavish godhead splendidly adorns thee
As thou art married.
O blessed Joseph, to thee also we sing,
Thy virtue raises thee to highest summits
Thy sanctity is a mirror reflecting,
Thy saintly Mary.
Jesus was happy to be known as your son
How much he loved you, parents of such virtue
From your belov’d arms to the world his mission
Already is started.
O blessed couple, light of earth and heaven,
Continue to inspire us with your blessing,
While the renown of your names we may leaven
By our devotion.
Eternal praise be to the mighty Godhead
Who, by the gift of Mary and St Joseph,
To our poor lives have, by their merits, added,
Gifts of Divine peace.
Amen.
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2015/01/espousal-of-maryand-joseph-and-novena.html
Saints Joachim and Anne
Saints Joachim and Anne,
grandparents of Jesus and parents
of Mary, we seek your intercession.
We beg you to direct all our actions to the
greater glory of God and the salvation of souls.
Strengthen us when we are tempted,
console us during our trials,
help us when we are in need,
be with us in life and in death.
O divine saviour, we thank you
for having chosen saints Joachim and Anne
to be the parents of our Blessed Mother Mary
and so to be your beloved grandparents.
We place ourselves under their patronage this day.
We recommend to them our families,
our children, and our grandchildren.
Keep them from all spiritual and physical harm.
Grant that they may ever grow in greater
love of God and others.
Saints Joachim and Anne,
we have many great needs.
We beg you to intercede for us
before the throne of your divine grandson.
All of us here have our special intentions,
our own special needs, and we pray
that through your intercession
our prayers may be granted.
Amen.
(Mention your request here)

Praying with Scripture
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Invite the Holy Spirit into your prayer time. Ask Him to help you understand what He wants you to understand.
2. Read the passage slowly. What stands out?
3. Read the passage again, and talk to God about what the reading brings to mind; how does it relate to your life?
What can you learn from it? Use the following pages to write down your thoughts.
4. Spend some time in silence. Try to push away distractions and focus on the fact that God is with you as you pray.
If anything comes to mind, you might want to write it down also.
5. End your time of prayer with a short prayer of thanks followed by an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be.

The Mother of all Living, Eve
JANUARY
READING: GENESIS 3:20

The Mother of Joseph, Rachel
FEBRUARY
READING: GENESIS 30

The Two Mothers of Moses
MARCH
READING: EXODUS 2:2-8

Naomi and Ruth
APRIL
READING: RUTH 2:1-23

A Wise Mother
MAY
READING: PROVERBS 31:25-30

The Nursing Mother
and God’s greater compassion for his children
JUNE
READING: ISAIAH 49:15

The Magnificat
JULY
READING: LUKE 1:46-55

Mother and Teacher of Life
AUGUST
READING: DEUTERONOMY 6:6-7

Mother of Kings,
Mother of Good Counsel
SEPTEMBER
READING: KINGS AND 1 & 2 CHRONICLES

Motherhood,
a Service and a Place of Honour
OCTOBER
READING: PSALM 13

A Widow Mother
NOVEMBER
READING: 1 KINGS 17:7-16

But Mary treasured up all these things
and pondered them in her heart
DECEMBER
READING: LUKE 2

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Date Night
Use this table to organize your date nights or
whatever works best for you...you might want to
use it for your ”Girls’ nights out” or ”Date night
with your children” (they also like a special oneto-one
outing with their mother).

3rd January
Decorative Name Card
- The Holy Name of Jesus -
Supplies
• a large piece of coloured
plain paper
• pens; stickers
• sequins
• embellishments
This feast day is celebrated shortly after
Christmas to commemorate the name of the
child Jesus: “At the end of eight days, when he
was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name
given by the angel before he was conceived in
the womb” (Luke 2:21).
St. Paul in his Letter to the Philippians wrote,
“So that at Jesus’s name every knee must bend
in the heavens, on the earth and under the
earth, and every tongue proclaim to the glory
of God the Father: Jesus Christ is Lord” (2:10-11).
The name of Jesus reminds us who He is and
what he has done for us.
When we say His name faithfully and with
love we are turning to Him and asking for His
assistance.
Method
1. Using your pens write the name of Jesus in
your best handwriting, very large across the
centre of the page.
2. Use your pens, stickers and anything you
can find to make His name look as beautiful
as you can. Maybe add a colourful border to
the page. Place it on a shelf or mantel and say
His name with reverence whenever you see it.

Letter Writing
- St Francis de Sales -
24th January
St Francis was born in 1567 to a wealthy family
in France.
From an early age he wanted to be a priest but
his father was against it and wanted him to go
into politics, so he studied at university until
he could no longer deny his vocation and he
went to the seminary.
Francis went on to become an incredible
preacher and evangelist, bringing thousands
of people back to the church after they had
left due to Calvinism.
He became great friends with a Catholic saint
and mystic called St Jane Frances de Chantal
and they founded an order together. They
wrote many letters to each other and for this
reason St Francis is the patron saint of writers
and journalists.
Method
Choose a family member you haven’t seen in
a long time and write them a letter. Maybe
read more about St Francis and tell them a bit
about him and his feast day!
Supplies
• paper
• pen
• envelope

3rd February
St Blaise Prayer
- St Blaise -
Supplies
• sheet of coloured paper
• picture of St Blaise sourced
from the internet, printed
and cut out
• white paper
• glue
St Blaise was a physician from Armenia
before he became a priest and then a bishop.
He spent many years living in a cave, where
people flocked to him for cure of their bodily
and spiritual ills.
He once miraculously cured a boy on the verge
of death with a fish bone stuck in his throat.
He was eventually persecuted by Emperor
Licinius, and was interrogated, scourged and
beheaded.
He is the patron saint of ear, nose and throat
conditions.
Method
1. Stick your printed picture of St Blaise in the
centre of the coloured paper and write his
name across the top in your nicest writing
with coloured pens.
2. Cut two large candles out of the white card
and stick them in a X shape at the base of
St Blaise.
3. Write a short prayer to him at the bottom,
asking him to protect you and your family
from any throat conditions.
Try and get to Mass on this day to receive the
special blessing of the throat!

Stars, Suns and Moons
- St Josephine Bakhita -
8th February
St Josephine was born in Sudan in 1869
and was kidnapped and sold into slavery
aged seven.
She was enslaved for twelve years and endured
many sufferings throughout this time.
She was eventually brought to Italy by the
family that owned her and while there stayed
with some nuns where she encountered God
for the first time.
She was eventually freed from slavery after a
court ruled her position as a slave was against
the law. She then chose to stay with the
Canossian sisters and became a nun herself.
She is the patron saint of human trafficking
victims.
Method
St Josephine once said: “Seeing the sun, the
moon and the stars, I said to myself, “who
could be the master of these beautiful things?’
I felt a great desire to see Him, to know Him
and to pay Him homage.”
1. Using the card and pastels, make yourself
a picture covered in stars, suns and moons.
Use glitter and glue if you like, to make them
stand out.
You could also look up some Sudanese recipes
to make for dinner like sweet potato, peanut
and spinach stew, or a Sudanese lentil dish.
Supplies
• black card
• pastels
• crayons

1st March
Crepe Paper Daffodil
- St David -
Supplies
• daffodils
• green and yellow card/
paper
• pens
St David is the patron saint of Wales and was
a Bishop of Mynyw during the sixth century.
He was a renowned teacher and preacher
and was key in denouncing the heresy of
Pelagianism (an idea that original sin did
not taint our souls and humans can achieve
human perfection).
His best known miracle took place as he was
preaching in a large crowd in the village of
Llandddewi Berf, when a small hill rose him
from the ground he stood on, and a white
dove came a rested on his shoulder.
Method
Daffodils are one of the traditional symbols
of Wales, and everyone wears daffodils on
St David’s Day. So maybe buy some daffodils
to decorate your home on the feast day.
Follow instructions on YouTube for how to
make a crepe paper daffodil or how to draw a
Welsh dragon.

St Joseph Altar
- St Joseph -
19th March
St Joseph is the patron and protector of the
Church, and he is also the patron saint of
workers, the sick and the dying .
Symbols associated with St Joseph are the
carpenter’s square and the lily. The square
symbolises his trade and also truth, and the
lily represents truth and his celibate marriage
to Our Lady.
It is tradition in Sicily around the feast of
St Joseph to make an altar in your home to
honour him. This originated during a period
of drought and famine many centuries ago
when the people of Sicily turned to St Joseph
for help. The rains came eventually and the
crops prospered.
In his honour they built an altar to honour
him, laden with food for the poor, flowers, fruit
and wine. The tradition continues to this day.
Method
1. Construct a small altar to St Joseph for his
feast day. Start the day by lighting the candles
and writing any intentions on paper to place
on the altar. You can find food to donate to
the poor through a foodbank and place it on
the altar and pray the litany of St Joseph for
your intentions.
Supplies
• small table
• mantle or shelf
• statue or image of St
Joseph
• candles
• St Joseph prayers printed
• flowers in vases
• food for the poor

24th March
Hand Print Palms
- Palm Sunday -
Supplies
• green and brown card/
paper
• felt tip pens
This feast day commemorates Jesus’s
triumphant entrance into Jerusalem a week
before his crucifixion. People cut palm
branches and laid them on the floor or waved
them in the air to salute their king.
- Palms were traditionally a symbol of victory
and goodness and were symbolic of the
victory that Jesus would soon have over death.
- By riding in on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled the
Old Testament prophecy of Zechariah 9:9
“See your king comes to you, righteous and
victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey”.
The donkey symbolised peace, so those who
rode them showed they came with peaceful
intentions. Here Jesus reminds us that He is
the Prince of Peace.
Method
1. Using your whole family, draw around
everyone’s hands on the green card, and cut
them all out.
2. Cut out a long brown stem shape from the
brown card.
3. Stick all the hand print cut-outs to the stem
and create your own palm branch to display in
your home or in a front window to show the
street the significance of the day.
4. You can use pens to decorate the branch
with “Hosanna to the King!” or “Hosanna to
the Son of David” or “Hosanna in the highest”.

He is Risen Banner
- Easter Sunday -
31st March
Easter Sunday is the most important feast day
in the Christian liturgical calendar. In the same
way that we do with Christmas, it is important
to make this day (and week!) feel exciting
and a real celebration of life over death for
our family.
You can spend the evening of Holy Saturday
decorating your house with spring flowers,
which you could buy or pick that day – you
really can’t have too many! Bake cakes and
bread together and feast your way through
the week, celebrating Jesus’s resurrection
in style!
Method
1. Draw onto the card in large capital letters
that can be cut out “HE IS RISEN” – try and
make each letter a different colour or pattern
to the one next to it.
2. Cut out the letters and make a hole in the
tops of each letter with a hole punch and
thread the string through the letters. Hang
the banner up on a plain wall behind your
dining table, if you have one, or in your front
room window for all to see, and keep it up for
the whole of Easter week.
Supplies
• multicoloured, plain or
patterned card
• string

1st May
Month of Our Lady
Supplies
• a statue of Our Lady
• small altar or mantle
• pretty table cloth
• vase of flowers
• candles
• a rosary
• a wire
• beads
• miniature craft flowers
May is the month of Our Lady – it is traditional
within this month to crown Our Lady with a
crown of some sort in order to honour her as
the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God.
This can be done very simply in your home
by creating a small Marian altar and having a
short ceremony with the children.
Crownings usually take place on the 1st of May,
but you can do it any day in May. The feast of
Our Lady of Fatima (13 May) is also a nice day
to do it.
Method
1. Set up an altar for Our Lady in a prominent
place in the house using the candles, flowers,
tablecloth, and place the rosary at her feet.
2. Make a small crown for Our Lady using
gold craft wire that you can wrap around the
head of your statue a few times to make it a
perfect fit. Then thread on small seed beads
or sequins if you have any, or just continue to
form the wire into a simple crown shape.
3. Select a family member to crown Our Lady
after praying the rosary. As you do so, you can
sing or recite the following hymn, which is
used traditionally at May crownings:
Bring flowers of the rarest
bring blossoms the fairest,
from garden and woodland
and hillside and dale;
our full hearts are swelling,
our glad voices telling
the praise of the loveliest
flower of the vale!
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May,
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May.
Our voices ascending,
In harmony blending,
Oh! Thus may our hearts turn
Dear Mother, to thee;
Oh! Thus shall we prove thee
How truly we love thee,
How dark without Mary
Life’s journey would be.
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May,
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May.

Miracle of the Sun
- Our Lady of Fatima -
13th May
Our Lady appeared to three young children
in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. The names of the
children were Lucia, Francesco and Jacinta.
She appeared to the children six times, and
they described her as “a lady more brilliant
than the sun”. She requested that they pray
the rosary every day to bring peace to the
world and an end to the war.
To end her apparitions, Our Lady promised a
miracle for all to see. Thousands gathered on
the hills and witnessed the “miracle of the
sun” – the weather was dark and raining, and
suddenly the sun shone through and started
to spin in the sky, creating many different
colours and looking as though it would crash
to the earth. Many people converted after
witnessing this miracle.
Method
1. Draw a large circle on your paper and then
add flames coming from the edges.
2. Using your crayons or pastels create a
multicoloured sun by filling your shape with
swirling colours, starting from the centre and
moving outwards to the edge.
3. Colour in the flames around the edges and
then use glue and glitter sprinkled on the top
to make it really look on fire.
4. Cut out your sun. If you have made a Marian
altar you can stick it on the wall above the
statue of Our Lady so she becomes Our Lady
of Fatima!
Supplies
• paper
• pencils
• oil or chalk pastels
• glue
• gold glitter

2nd June
Procession
- Corpus Christi -
Supplies
• n/a
The feast of Corpus Christi celebrates the real
presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
It was proposed as a feast day by St Thomas
Aquinas to Pope Urban IV in 1264 to create
a feast focused solely on the Eucharist,
emphasising the joy of the Eucharist.
The traditional way of celebrating Corpus
Christi is by attending a procession. This
usually happens on the feast day itself or
on the Sunday closest to the feast day, and
often involves the Blessed Sacrament being
processed around the church or through the
streets outside. Children often dress in their
first communion outfits and throw rose petals
on the ground ahead of the procession, while
prayers are said and hymns sung. It is an
incredibly beautiful occasion.
Method
Why not try and attend a Corpus Christi
procession at your local parish? If there is not
one in your local parish then perhaps you
could make a day trip with the family to a
church in a town nearby that is holding one.
If you cannot manage to make it to a
procession, you could look up the times of
“adoration” in your parish and take the family
with you. Talk with the children before you go
about the meaning of the Real Presence – tell
them to sit quietly for a moment with Jesus
who so desperately wants us to visit Him and
spend time with Him – as much as He wants
us to adore Him, He also wants to look on us
with love. Make it a quiet and solemn time of
prayer for all of you.

The Rosary
- Immaculate Heart of Mary -
8th June
On this feast day we meditate on the interior
life of Mary – her joys and sorrows, her virtues
and perfections and above all her love for God
the Father, her maternal love for Jesus Christ
and her motherly and compassionate love for
all mankind.
The immaculate heart of Mary is usually
depicted with as being pierced with seven
swords or wounds, in honour of the seven
sorrows of Mary, with roses wrapped around
the heart.
Method
Try to gather your family together today in
front of a statue of Our Lady, lit with candles,
to pray a rosary together (if you don’t know
how, it is very simple and there are many
tutorials online to show you how).
A full five decades of the rosary should normally
take about fifteen minutes (depending how
fast you are!). If you don’t think your children
will manage saying the full five decades, try
saying one or two, which should only take
five minutes. You could choose mysteries of
the rosary that focus on Our Lady such as the
Assumption, Annunciation or Crowning of
Our Lady.
Don’t fret too much about them sitting/
kneeling quietly for now if you have never
done it before. Just stay calm, be patient and
demonstrate how you expect it to be done.
If they are old enough, get them to take it in
turns to lead by praying the first half of each
prayer. They will enjoy the responsibility and it
will help them to focus!
Supplies
• rosary
• statue of Our Lady
• candles
• matches or lighter

23rd July
Peacock Feather
- St Liborius of Le Mans -
Supplies
• heavy card
• tissue paper in peacock
colours (blue, green, aqua,
purple, yellow)
• pva glue thinned with
water (1:1 ratio)
• black and/or metallic finetip
markers or Sharpies
• sticky gems or shiny
stickers (optional)
• ribbon or yarn to hang
St Liborius was the bishop of Le Mans in the
fourth century. He was a holy man in life,
and died in the arms of his friend, St Martin
de Tours. For this reason he is said to be a
patron of a good death. There is a legend that
a peacock guided his pallbearers to his grave,
which is why this bird became one of his
symbols. Traditionally, peacocks are a symbol
of resurrection because they shed their
feathers each year but regrow them just as
gloriously. Peacock feathers remind us of the
beauty of God’s glorious plan for us: to raise us
to eternal life to live with him.
Method
1. Draw a teardrop shape onto the piece of
card, making the outline dark so you will still
be able to see it through the layers of tissue
paper.
2. Paint a thin layer of the diluted glue over the
teardrop, add a layer of tissue paper (perhaps
a green to start with) then lightly brush
more glue over. You may want to add a few
more layers of the tissue paper to build up a
stronger colour. Don’t worry about creases
or even tears in the paper as this will give it a
lovely variegated effect. Also, don’t worry if you
go outside the lines, as the feather will be cut
out at the end.
3. Cut your remaining tissue paper colours
into ovals or tear drops of graduated sizes and
apply them to the fat end of the feather, one
atop the other, starting with the largest and
getting smaller. Use whatever colours you
like: there is so much variety in how peacock
feathers are drawn there truly is no one right
way. Try to be very sparing painting the glue
onto each layer, using just enough to dampen
it down completely, but if your feather does
get too soggy to work with just set it aside to
dry or help it along with a hairdryer. This is a
very forgiving craft!
4. Once you have all the tissue paper layers
you want, leave it to dry. When it is dry, cut out
the feather and embellish it with markers and
gems if you like.
5. There are several ways to finish this craft:
punch a hole in the end of one or two feathers
and thread a ribbon through to hang up; or
make about five feathers, glue them together
in a fan shape, and cut a peacock’s head and
body out of blue paper to glue in the centre;
or, if you have many children making multiple
feathers, you can cut out a larger peacock in
silhouette, hang it on the wall, and give it a
cascading tail of feathers.

Thinking of your Grandparents
- St Joachim and St Anne -
26th July
St Joachim and St Anne were the parents of
Our Lady. They are not mentioned in the bible,
so anything we know about them comes from
Catholic tradition/legend.
Any writings of them in ancient manuscripts
tell the same story – that Mary was promised
to Joachim and Anne by an angel, was
consecrated to God, and henceforth was
destined to remain a virgin all of her life.
However little we know, we can be certain that
Mary had good and faithful parents, who can
serve as role models to us, and deserve to be
emulated for their devotion to God, and Our
Lady the Mother of God, and their grandson,
Jesus.
Method
Think today about how you could devote
some time with the children to thinking of
their own grandparents. Maybe they could
print a picture of St Joachim and St Anne to
colour in, write them a letter on the back and
send or deliver it to them.
Maybe you could start a novena for their
grandparents to St Joachim and St Anne.
If your children don’t have any grandparents,
perhaps they could think of visiting an elderly
neighbour with you for a while.
Supplies
• printed picture of
St Joachim and St Anne
• colouring pencils

11th August
Peg Dolls
- St Clare of Assisi -
Supplies
• multipack of wooden peg
dolls (available to buy on
Amazon!)
• acrylic paint
Clare was an Italian saint and one of the first
followers of St Francis of Assisi.
She was from wealthy parents who had
decided to marry her in line with family
tradition. However, as a teen she heard St
Francis preach, and then went to him to ask
how she could live out the Gospel. Shortly
afterwards she became a nun with the
Benedictines and later founded her own order
called the “Poor Clares”.
A while later, during the crusades, the convent
was about to be attacked by waring armies.
In an attempt to protect the convent St Clare
requested to be taken to its walls carrying
the Blessed Sacrament. There she prayed
begging Our Lord to protect them now, as she
no longer could. The army miraculously did
not attack and retreated.
She was canonised only two years after her
death.
Method
1. Look up some pictures online of wooden
peg dolls of St Clare of Assisi and have a
go! Paint her in her brown habit and veil
(which is relatively easy!) holding the Blessed
Sacrament in front of her to ward away the
armies.
Varnish if possible to protect the paintwork
once dry.

Prayer Card
- St Maximilian Kolbe -
14th August
Maximilian was born in Poland in 1894. His
life was strongly influenced by a vision of the
Virgin Mary that he had aged twelve.
As a priest he travelled around Poland
promoting Mary Marian devotion, and set up
a religious printing press.
When the Second World War began he was
one of the only Franciscans to remain in the
monastery and opened a hospital there for
the injured and also sheltered refugees.
He later refused to sign papers saying he was
a German citizen, and when the monastery
was shut down he was arrested and sent to
Auschwitz.
During his time there, some prisoners were
selected to be starved to death. Kolbe was not
one of them but he volunteered to take the
place of one of the men who had a family.
He was the last to die in the group and was
eventually given a lethal injection, after
spending his last days praying for and tending
to the needs of others.
Method
1. Print a small picture of St Maximilian Kolbe,
stick it on to a piece of card and then cut it out.
2. On the back of your prayer card, write a
short prayer to St Maximilian asking for the
graces to have a faith as strong as his, and to
always put others before yourself.
Supplies
• small printed picture of
St Maximilian Kolbe
• card
• glue

8th September
Birthday Cake for Mary
- Nativity of Our Lady -
Supplies
• cake ingredients of your
choice
This feast day celebrates the birth of Our Lady
and is celebrated nine months after the feast
of the Immaculate Conception.
It is celebrated in many different ways all
over the world. In Malta they have brass band
marches and concerts and firework displays;
in Mumbai they celebrate with a week long
festivity called Bandra Fair, where pilgrims of
all faiths flock to a shrine of Our Lady of the
Mount to leave prayer requests.
Method
Celebrate this special feast day by making
a special birthday cake for the family, with
candles, and sing Happy Birthday to Our Lady.
If you want to make it even more of a
celebration, invite other families to join you
and, asking everyone to bring an allocated
amount of cupcakes, make a cupcake rosary.
If you can’t get that many cupcakes together
you could always make enough to make one
decade!

Confession
23rd September
- St Pio of Pietrelcina -
Francesco (later known as Pio joined the
Capuchin order of Friars aged fifteen and
spent most of his life in the convent of San
Giovanni Rotondo.
He was marked by the stigmata (the wounds
of Christ) and he attracted many followers
who travelled from all over the world to see
him and have him hear their confessions.
He was renowned for his confessions, often
knowing what people were going to say (or
not say!) before they said it. He was a strong
proponent of weekly confession, describing it
as “the soul’s bath”.
His five rules for spiritual growth involved:
weekly confession, daily communion,
spiritual reading, meditation and frequent
examination of conscience.
Method
Why not try to get everyone in the family to
confession this week in honour of St Pio?
Dedicate some time to reading through a
children’s examination of conscience together
before you go and say some prayers to St Pio,
asking for his help and direction to make a
good and holy confession.
If none of the children have made their
confession yet, a discussion on things they
might have done to offend God and how they
could try harder next time would suffice.
Supplies
• n/a

1st October
Rosary Decade
- St Therese of Lisieux -
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Supplies
• coloured card
• glue
• paper
• pens
Born in 1873 to St Louis and Zelie Martin,
she was one of five sisters. Sadly her mother
died when she was four and this affected her
greatly.
As a child, although she could be spoilt and
petulant, she was always very in tune with her
spiritual side. She used to count the sacrifices
she would make every day on her rosary beads
and offer them to Jesus.
After a long time of prayer and writing to
bishops and even the pope she became a
Carmelite aged fiftteen. She was known for
her quiet and humble life there, and it was only
after her death of tuberculosis aged twentyfour
that her writings to her mother superior
were discovered and circulated and published
as The Story of a Soul. She is a doctor of the
church.
Method
1. Cut twelve circles from your card and stick
them onto the paper in the form of a decade
of the rosary, with one at the start with a gap
(where you can draw some string) then ten for
the Hail Marys and a final circle at the end.
2. On the first bead pray to St Therese and
ask for her help and intercession to keep
you simple and childlike always, and to see
opportunities for small acts of kindness and
sacrifice every day, so that you may easily
reach heaven, as she did.
3. Try to offer up as many sacrifices and good
deeds as you can over the next few days – each
bead represents a day. Whenever you do one,
mark it on your bead for that day with a small
heart in pen.
4. On the last bead offer your sacrifices and
deeds to Jesus with a prayer.

St Teresa Colouring
- St Teresa of Avila -
15th October
Teresa of Avila was a Spanish Carmelie nun,
mystic and religious reformer.
Her mother died when she was fourteen and
her father had her moved into a convent aged
fifteen to be educated. She became a nun
aged twenty.
Aged forty she started a new order of nuns,
as she wanted to live a simpler life than the
one she had been leading. It was a silent
order, where she wanted everyone to devote
themselves to praying to and listening to God.
She wrote many books about prayer,
encouraging people to pray more.
She died in 1582, aged sixty-seven, and was
later made a doctor of the church.
Method
1. Find a colouring picture of St Teresa online
and print it off, leaving a space at the bottom
of the page and colour it in.
2. Then look up some of her most famous
quotes and inscribe it across the bottom.
One of her most famous quotes is:
“Let nothing disturb you,
let nothing frighten you.
All things pass.
God does not change.
Patience achieves everything.”
Supplies
• colouring in picture of
St Teresa of Avila
• colouring pencils or pens

1st November
Soul Cakes
- All Saints‘ Day -
Supplies
• n/a
Also known as All Hallows Day or the Solemnity
of All Saints.
All Saints’ Day is part of the season of
Allhallowtide, from 31st October to 2nd
November.
On this day we celebrate al the saints in
heaven who are praying for us on earth.
Method
1. A traditional practice for celebrating All
Saints (and Allhallowtide) that started in the
medieval era is a practice called “souling”.
Have a look at how to make “soul cakes”. You
can have them blessed by a priest before
distributing them to your neighbours, friends
and family. Perhaps you could choose some
different saints to pray to for all the people you
give the cakes to.

Prayers for Souls
- All Souls‘ Day -
2nd November
On All Souls’ Day we remember all the faithful
departed. It is a great opportunity to take your
family to the local graveyard, to talk to them
about purgatory and to pray for the dead. You
can take jars with candles along with you and
maybe adopt a grave that looks untended and
pray for that soul.
There are indulgences available to all of those
who visit graveyards to pray for the dead in
November.
Method
1. Make a small altar for your souls in purgatory,
propping up any photos you have on the altar,
and lighting a candle in front of each picture
each evening to keep them in your mind and
prayers.
If you have suffered miscarriage in the past
maybe put up any scan photos or photos of
you pregnant to remember your babies and
to ask them to pray for you.
Supplies
• small table or mantlepiece
• tablecloth
• printed photos on card/
framed/laminated of
people close to your family
who have died
• tealight candles – enough
for each soul you want to
pray for

2nd December
Advent Wreaths & Christmas Paper Chains
- Advent -
Supplies
Advent Wreaths
• oasis ring and base
• greenery – such as
rosemary, holly, fir, ivy,
juniper, cedar
• five Advent candles
Paper Chains
• paper or card
• glue or stapler
Method – Advent Wreaths
1. Soak your oasis in the sink until bubbles stop
rising to the water surface and it feels weighty
to lift out of the water.
2. Starting with small bits of greenery, work
from the bottom sides and centre.
One can decorate it with dried orange
slices (slice oranges/grapefruits/tangerines
about half a centimetre thick and cook on
greaseproof paper on a very low oven setting
for around two hours until they have a dried,
almost stained glass aesthetic).
Method – Paper Chains
1. This is a lovely way for children to be in charge
of a decorating the home for a Christmas
project. To make the chains, cut strips of card
around one inch thick and eight inches long
out of pretty paper or old Christmas cards.
2. Glue or staple the ends together.
3. Loop the next strip through the loop, staple
the ends of that strip together and continue.

Dressing up for St Lucy
- St Lucy -
13th December
St Lucy was a virgin martyr in the early fourth
century.
According to legend she brought food and aid
to Christians hiding in the Roman catacombs.
In order to light her way and leave her hands
free to carry as much food as possible, it was
said she used to wear a candlelit crown on her
head.
Her feast day is known as a day of light and
is a precursor to the arrival of the “light of the
world” at Christmas.
Method
1. Traditional celebrations of St Lucy involve one
of the daughters in the family (traditionally the
eldest) dressing in white and serving coffee
and baked goods (usually ginger biscuits) to
the rest of the family, and to visitors during the
day.
If you’d rather not light a wreath on her head,
you could set the table with candles and turn
off all the lights to create the atmosphere!
Supplies
• white gown
• red sash
• green wreath crown with
candles
• ginger biscuits
• coffee

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8th January
Zalabee
- The Baptism of Our Lord -
Ingredients
• 3g dry yeast
• 1 ½ cups lukewarm water
• 4 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp oil
• granulated sugar
• cinnamon
• vegetable oil (for frying)
Doughnut cakes, or zalabee, originally come
from Syria and have long been associated
with the Orthodox Church’s celebration of
Epiphany. While you prepare these doughnuts,
you’ll find that your actions directly mimic the
act of baptism: first, you dunk the dough in
oil, then you bring the cakes out of the pot
transformed, and finally, you cover them with
powdered sugar, just as baptism brings a
covering of the gift of eternal life.
Method
1. Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water.
2. Sift the flour with the salt into a large bowl.
3. Stir the yeast and the oil gradually into the
flour.
4. Knead briefly until the dough is well-mixed
and smooth.
5. Let the dough sit, lightly covered, for 45
minutes to an hour – until the dough has risen.
6. Roll the dough out to about 1/4 inch, and cut
it into strips about 2 inches wide and 7 inches
long.
7. Fry the strips in a frying pan in about 1/2 to
3/4 inch of hot oil until they are golden brown.
8. Drain on paper towels.
9. Sprinkle the zalabee with sugar and
cinnamon.
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Sudanese Beef Stew
8th February
- St Josephine Bakhita -
St Josephine Bakhita, the patron saint of
both Sudan and South Sudan, was born in
the Darfur region in western Sudan. Born into
a respected family and living, as she put it, a
“happy and carefree life”, she would certainly
have eaten this wholesome and hearty stew
or a version of it. Later in life as a sister in the
Canossian convent at Schio, Italy, she served,
for a time, as cook among many other roles,
quite possibly bringing this taste of Africa to
the other nuns.
Method
1. In a large casserole dish , sauté the onions
for 2–3 minutes. Add the beef and cook until
brown.
2. Add the cinnamon stick, spices, and a bit of
salt and pepper. Add the carrots and tomatoes
and cover with a lid. Cook on low to medium
heat for 15–20 minutes stirring occasionally.
3. Remove the lid and add minced garlic,
potatoes and 1 ½ cups of beef broth. Stir in
tomato paste, cover with the lid and cook for
an additional 40–45 minutes.
4. Remove the lid and stir until some of the
liquid evaporates. Add more salt and pepper
according to taste.
5. Serve with rice or flat bread.
Ingredients
• 2 lbs cubed beef
• 3-4 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4-5 sliced onions
• 2-3 diced carrots
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp curry powder
• ¼ tsp ground cardamom
• 1 (14.5 oz) can diced
tomatoes
• 2-3 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 ½ lbs diced potatoes.
• 1 ½ cups beef broth
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• salt and pepper
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11th February
Duck Confit
- Our Lady of Lourdes -
Ingredients
• 4 duck legs
• handful of thyme sprigs
• sunflower oil, for drizzling
• 500g carrots, sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, finely
chopped
• 2 x 400g cans of white
beans, drained
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Depending where you are in the world,
this could be an incredibly lavish or rather
economical meal, as duck legs, expensive
and somewhat hard to find here in London,
England, are rather less so in other places.
Never the less this tender and aromatic meal
is always a crowd pleaser. St Bernadette is
likely to have eaten this French cuisine classic
with her family, quite possibly with plenty of
duck when the times were good in her early
childhood, and definitely with more beans
than anything else during the hard times
when they lived in a one room converted jail!
Method
1. Salt the duck legs a day or two before
cooking, scatter with some of the thyme
sprigs, then cover and chill until needed.
2. Heat the oven to 160°C/140°C fan.
3. Heat a little oil in a shallow casserole or
roasting tin. If the duck legs have been salted
in advance, pat them dry with kitchen paper.
Sizzle the legs in the tin or casserole, skinside
down until golden brown and the fat has
rendered out. Turn and cook for 10–15 mins to
brown them all over.
4. Remove the duck legs to a plate and pour
away half the fat from the casserole or tin.
5. Return it to the heat and fry the carrots,
garlic and thyme along with some seasoning
for 5 mins until the carrots are starting to
soften.
6. Sit the duck legs on top, skin-side up, then
pour about 100ml water over the veg. Bring
to a simmer, cover and transfer to the oven to
cook for 1 hr 30 mins.
7. Remove the casserole from the oven and
uncover it.
8. Turn the oven up to 200°C/180°C fan.
9. Lift the duck out onto a plate and stir the
beans through the carrots and thyme. Sit the
duck back on top, then return to the oven,
uncovered, to cook for another 20–30 mins
until the duck skin is crisp and the beans are
simmering.
Remove from the oven and leave to rest for 10
mins, then serve straight from the dish.

Lentil Soup
14th February
- Ash Wednesday -
As we begin the wonderfully challenging
season of Lent it can be difficult to plan what
to feed our families. This soup, with its protein
rich lentils, is excellent whatever season of
motherhood you’re in. It can be blended
smooth for texture-shy toddlers, doubled or
trebled in quantity if your table is surrounded
by young people who resemble bottomless
pits at dinner time, and it is also good to
freeze if you’re at that rather particular stage
of motherhood where you don’t know if it will
be just you and your husband, or you, your
children and their friends, as hungry for the
family meal time as the meal itself.
Method
1. Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium
heat. Add onions, carrots and celery; cook and
stir until the onion is tender. Add in garlic, bay
leaf, oregano and basil; cook for a few more
minutes.
2. Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes.
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer
until lentils are tender (at least 1 hour).
3. When ready to serve, stir in spinach and
cook until it wilts. Stir in vinegar and season
with salt and pepper.
Ingredients
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 carrots, diced
• 2 stalks of celery, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 2 cups dry lentils
• 8 cups water
• 1 (14.5 oz) can crushed
tomatoes
• ½ cup spinach, rinsed and
thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• salt to taste
• ground black pepper to
taste
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8th March
Pan - fried Sea Bream fillets and Potatoes
- Fish Friday -
Inrgedients
• 1 sea bream
• 1 lb (500 g) potatoes
• extra virgin olive oil to
taste
• fine salt to taste
• black pepper to taste
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 sprig rosemary
• 1 sprig thyme
Makes 12
Our fish Friday recipes might just be the most
popular part of the planner recipe section.
Whether you’re in a country that abstains from
meat every Friday and need to add some new
ideas to your repertoire, or are somewhere
that only abstains in lent and need to come
up with six Fridays of meals, I hope we can
help you to live this liturgical time around the
domestic altar of your dinner table.
Method
1. Cut the potatoes into roughly 0.2-inch slices,
without peeling. Place them in a bowl and
season with salt black pepper and oil.
2. Add the garlic clove, the thyme and
rosemary sprigs. Place the potatoes in a large
pan and cook on a medium flame for around
30 minutes. Try not to turn them over too
frequently to avoid breaking them up. Clean
the sea bream in the meantime. Gut and
descale the fish.
3. Place the sea bream on a cutting board and
cut the first fillet using a knife. Turn the fish
over and cut the other fillet out.
4. Once the potatoes are soft and have
browned, place them in a container and leave
them on one side.
5. Place a drizzle of oil in the same pan you
used to cook the potatoes and place the sea
bream fillets in the middle. Cook for around
10 minutes on a low flame and gently turn
the fillets over halfway through. Add salt and
pepper to taste.
6. Add the potatoes when the fillets are done.
Heat them up and serve your pan-fried sea
bream and potatoes!
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Vegetable Pie
15th March
- Meat-Free Friday -
This vegetable pie is as good looking as it is
delicious. If you let it cool slightly it’s portable
too, great for parish or school events that seem
to roll on regardless of the Lenten season. Or
how about making double and dropping
one round to someone in need, a new mum,
someone home from hospital, or someone
new to your parish community.
Method
1. Start with the bechamel: heat the milk with
a pinch of nutmeg in a saucepan and bring to
the boil.
2. In the meantime, prepare the butter and
flour in another saucepan: melt the butter
and add the sieved flour and salt. Stir until the
mixture thickens to a smooth paste.
3. Now add the milk to the mix, stirring all the
while until the bechamel thickens correctly.
When thickened and smooth leave it to cool
at room temperature.
4. In the meantime, beat the eggs and add the
grated parmesan cheese. Add this mixture to
the bechamel and amalgamate thoroughly.
5. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
6. Now prepare the base for the vegetable
pie: roll the puff pastry out using a rolling pin
according to the shape of the baking tray
you’ll use; place it inside a 9 inch baking tray
that is 2 inches tall and, if necessary, cut away
any excess pastry around the edge.
7. Now prepare the vegetables: wash the
courgette and peel the carrots, then use a
mandolin to thinly slice them lengthwise,
creating ribbon strips.
8. Pour the bechamel and egg mixture onto
the pie base and start decorating the pie with
the vegetable ribbons: carefully arrange them
vertically to create a concentric decoration
covering the entire surface.
9. Now dab some oil onto the pie and add a
little salt. Bake in the oven for around 50–60
minutes at 180°C and your vegetable pie is
ready!
Ingredients
• 1 roll puff pastry
• 350g courgettes
• 350g carrots
• fine salt to taste
• 40g extra virgin olive oil
• 300ml whole milk
• 25g plain flour
• 25g butter
• nutmeg to taste
• 40g parmigiano Reggiano
DOP cheese for grating
• 2 medium eggs
• salt to taste
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28th March
Unleavened Bread
- Maundy Thursday -
Ingredients
• 300g bread flour
• 200ml hot water
This bread recipe could as easily be in the
activity or even prayer section of the planner.
As mums we can use the simplest things to
teach our children, and oftentimes these
little things are mentioned as cornerstones in
their lives a decade later, when we’d planned
them not 5 minutes before! On this day
where we remember most the institution of
the Eucharist, you could prepare and eat this
bread with your children while reading and
talking about the Gospel of the Last Supper,
helping to bring alive one of the most vital
parts of our faith, especially for those yet to
make their first Holy Communion.
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220°C.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Mix the flour and the water together until
the dough is soft and smooth. Knead for 5
minutes.
4. Place the flattened dough in the oven tray
and bake in the preheated oven until bread is
cooked, 20–30 minutes.
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Puff Pastry Doves
19th May
- Pentecost -
These doves are just great! Ideal for pentecost
picnics or parish parties they look good,
taste even better and, of course, provide an
opportunity to talk with the children about the
descent of the Holy Spirit. If you have children
or god children making their confirmation this
year, this is also an excellent decorative and
delicious dessert for their party or reception.
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Start by making the cream: heat the milk
in a saucepan with half a vanilla bean and its
seeds; beat the egg yolk and sugar together in
a bowl with a whisk, then add the flour.
3. Remove the vanilla bean and gradually add
the warm milk to the mixture and stir with a
whisk.
4. Place the mixture back on the stove and stir
continuously until it thickens.
5. Place the pastry cream in a bowl and leave
to cool.
6. Now take the puff pastry, sprinkle the work
top with flour and gently roll the pastry out
with a rolling pin.
7. Print or draw a dove-shaped template, cut
it out from stiff material, like cardboard, place
it on the puff pastry and cut the doves out
by running a knife around the edge of the
template.
8. Once you have cut out the doves, place
them on an oven tray lined with parchment
paper and use a brush to dab with an egg
beaten with a spoon of cream. Sprinkle the
powdered sugar over the doves and bake in
an oven preheated to 180°C for 20 minutes.
9. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
10. Once cooled, carefully cut your doves in
half and fill them with the cream. Close it with
the top half of puff pastry and dust with the
powdered sugar.
Ingredients
• 460g puff pastry
for the pastry cream:
• 500ml whole milk
• 50g flour
• 150g sugar
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 vanilla bean
for garnishing:
• 1 egg
• powdered sugar to taste
• 1 tbsp cream
Makes 8
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12th June
Chicken Katsu
- Our Lady of Akita -
Ingredients
• 4 x 150g chicken thigh
fillets, marinated in garlic
and ginger
• 30g plain flour
• 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
• 1 egg beaten
• 1tbsp vegetable oil
• 400g onions
• 250g potatoes, diced
• 100g carrots, diced
• salt and pepper
• 230g Japanese curry mix
blocks
• 800ml water
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 cups cooked sushi rice
The apparitions of Our Lady in Akita, Japan,
in 1973 are associated with a carved wooden
statue of Our Lady that has wept repeatedly.
The apparitions were unusual in that the
weeping statue of the Virgin Mary was
broadcast on Japanese national television.
Why not make this tasty Japanese dish and
use the opportunity to introduce your family
to this lesser known modern apparition of Our
Lady, find Akita, Japan, on the map and even
check out the original clips from the Japanese
TV broadcast of the weeping statue.
Method
1. Marinate the chicken ideally overnight but
not less than 1 hour with garlic and ginger.
2. Preheat the oven to 180°C
3. Place flour, egg and breadcrumbs in
separate shallow plates then coat one fillet
at a time first in flour then eggs and finally in
breadcrumbs. Season the chicken with salt
and pepper.
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan and place the
fillets into the oil and fry them until both sides
are browned.
5. Transfer the chicken into a baking tray and
cook in the oven for 10 minutes at 180°C.
6. Add oil to a saucepan over medium heat,
add onions and sauté for few minutes, add
carrots and potatoes and stir until the surface
of the vegetables starts getting cooked.
7. Add water and turn the heat up to bring it
to boil.
8. Add the curry block and blend it with
the vegetables and stir until is completely
dissolved.
9. Place a cup of hot sushi rice on a side of the
plate, the chicken next to the rice and pour the
vegetable curry on top. Serve immediately.
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Sant‘ Anna’s Tears
26th July
- St Anne -
Saint Anne represents the model
grandmother. She provides the religious
foundation for someone who is of central
importance to the Italian family.
Her importance is attested to in Italian Catholic
tradition by the vast number of festivals and
recipes which are dedicated to her.
According to a legend Saint Anne prayed to
the Lord for 40 days, with many tears and
from these tears a very special dessert comes
to life which in Salento they prepare in honour
of the saint, and which is called “Saint Anne’s
Tears”.
Method
1. Mix the flour with the sugar and the lard.
Add the glasses of brandy and continue
kneading; add the egg yolks, still working the
dough well, then pour in the orange juice and
mix well.
2. From the dough roll out long sticks and cut
them into small pieces roughly 1 cm.
3. Fry them in very hot oil, drain them well and
mix them with the chopped almonds.
4. Pour them into a pan, where you have
melted the honey over a low heat, for a few
minutes.
5. Put everything onto a serving plate, shaping
it into the desired shape (cake, doughnut,
etc.) and garnish it with the aniseed sugared
almonds.
Ingredients
• 1kg flour
• 200g sugar
• 200g lard
• 5 shot glasses of brandy
• 5 egg yolks
• 1 orange (juice)
• 300g honey
• 150g toasted almonds
• 50g aniseed sugared
almonds.
Serves 8-10
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10th August
Saint Lawrence skewers
- Saint Lawrence -
Ingredients
• 1kg chicken thighs,
boneless and skinless and
cut lengthways
• 150g natural yoghurt
• 2 tsp paprika
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 0.5 tsp dried chilli flakes
• 2 tsp garlic granules
(or 3 cloves of fresh garlic)
• 1 lemon, zest and juice
• salt and freshly ground
pepper
If you want to tell your children the story
of St Lawrence today, forget the shooting
stars, just make them a ham sandwich. This
martyr of the Early Church is renowned for
being burned to death on a grill, but his
works of mercy helping widows and orphans
are just as famous. For many centuries the
convent of Poor Clares next to the church of
San Lorenzo in Rome, Italy, which bears his
name has distributed bread and ham to the
poor on his feast day. This ancient tradition,
in Latin “Panis et perna” is so enduring that it
has been added to the name of the church,
the street and the whole neighbourhood, now
called St Lawrence in Panisperna. So consider
this recipe a two for one, as in honour of his
flame–grilled martyrdom we have chicken
skewers ready to barbeque and hearty ham
sandwiches to recall his good works. With
both his faith and good works he is a Saint
who is really in love with God. Let him inspire
us and our children in self sacrifice and the
service of others.
Method
1. Mix the marinade ingredients together well
in a large bowl.
2. Add the chicken thighs and marinate for at
least 30 minutes or, even better, overnight.
3. Thread onto skewers and cook for about
20 minutes until golden on the outside and
cooked through.
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Bocadillos
12th October
- Our Lady of the Pillar -
The feast of Our Lady of the Pillar is celebrated
on 12 October, and she is the Patroness of the
Hispanic peoples. A grand nine-day festival
known as Fiestas del Pilar is celebrated in
Saragossa (Zaragoza) every year in her honour.
Bocadillo, or bocata de lomo, is a Spanish
sandwich that consists of bread filled with
pork tenderloin.
Method
1. Season pork steak or chop with salt, pepper,
garlic powder, onion powder and paprika
to taste on both sides. Drizzle with olive oil.
Marinate 20 minutes at room temperature.
2. Rub both sides of baguette halves with cut
side of garlic clove.
3. Grate tomato, cut side down, directly onto
cut sides of bread. Spread evenly with a knife.
Season to taste with salt. Set aside.
4. Heat cast-iron skillet over high heat. Cook
pork steak or chop until well-browned and just
cooked through, about 2–3 minutes per side.
Remove to plate and let rest 5–10 minutes.
5. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place
on bottom half of bread and drizzle with a
little olive oil. Cover with top half and serve
immediately.
Ingredients
• 1 slice pork shoulder steak
or loin chop
• coarse salt
• freshly ground black
pepper
• garlic powder
• onion powder
• smoked paprika
• extra virgin olive oil
• 1 sliced baguette, 4”-5”
long, cut lengthwise in half
• 1 clove garlic, peeled, lightly
smashed and cut
• 1 vine-ripened tomato,
halved
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12th December
Arroz Rojo
- Our Lady of Guadalupe -
Ingredients
• 1 cup long grain white rice
• ¼ cup olive oil
• ¼ diced onion
• 1 medium diced garlic clove
• 2 cups hot water
• ½ cup hot chicken broth
• 1 cup tomato sauce
• 1 tsp salt
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Arroz Rojo, or Mexican Red Rice, is a staple
in Mexican cuisine, and perhaps the most
commonly served side dish. Juan Diego, to
whom Mary appeared, was a peasant and this
kind of cooking, taking simple, economical
ingredients and adding time and love to
bring something delicious to the table, is
something peasant mothers have been
doing for centuries. Let us take Our Lady, in
her simplicity, as our model for serving our
families and those around us.
Method
1. In a medium saucepan heat ¼ cup of oil on
medium heat. Once hot, add one cup of long
grain white rice.
2. Sauté the rice until it turns a golden-brown
colour (but be careful it does not burn). This
should take about 5 minutes.
3. Next pour the rice and the oil into a sieve
and allow the oil to drain from the rice.
4. Add diced onion and diced garlic to the
saucepan where you cooked the rice. There
will be just enough oil left in the saucepan to
sauté the onion and garlic. Sauté until soft.
5. Add the rice back in, along with 1 cup of hot
water, ½ cup of hot chicken broth, ⅓ cup of
tomato sauce, and 1 teaspoon of salt. Using
a fork, carefully stir everything together just
until combined. This is the only time you want
to stir during the cooking process. Too much
stirring will break up the rice and make it
mushy. Bring the mixture to a simmer, turn
down the heat to medium-low and cover.
6. After about 10 minutes, use a fork to dig a
small hole in the middle of the rice until you
reach the bottom of the pot. If there isn’t any
more water left, add another ½ cup of hot
water and cover again. After about 5 minutes,
repeat again and check for water. If there isn’t
any more water left, add another ½ cup of hot
water and cover again. This last time the water
should dry much faster. Be sure to not leave
the rice unattended so it doesn’t burn on the
bottom. As soon as the water has dried up,
take the rice off of the heat. Carefully fluff with
a fork, being sure not to over-mix or break up
the rice pieces.

Partridge in a Pear Tree Dessert
25th December
- Christmas Day -
The Gift of Christ in ‘The Twelve Days of
Christmas’.
The song was written somewhere between
the 16th and 19th centuries when Roman
Catholics in England were not permitted to
practice their faith openly. So the Christmas
carol was written using secular imagery to
help catechise children in the faith. The “true
love” mentioned in each verse does not refer
to a young man or woman, but our Lord Jesus
Christ, and the “me” represents the baptised
Catholic.
The “partridge in a pear tree” is also Christ,
since that species of bird is willing to sacrifice
its life to protect its young by faking an injury
to draw predators away.
The two turtle doves stand for the Old and New
Testaments. The three French hens represent
faith, hope and love. The four calling birds
are the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John. The five golden rings symbolise
the first five books of the Old Testament. The
six geese a-laying recall for the six days of
creation. Seven swans a-swimming represent
the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The eight
maids a-milking signify the eight Beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing are the nine fruits of the
Holy Spirit. The 10 lords a-leaping represent
the Ten Commandments. The 11 pipers piping
stand for the eleven faithful Apostles. The 12
drummers drumming symbolise the 12 points
of belief in the Apostles’ Creed.
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Combine the brown
sugar, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt.
Set aside.
2. For the partridge, roll out pastry crust
and cut into bird shapes. Bake according to
package instructions and set aside.
3. Set the pears (sliced side up) in the pan.
Combine the lemon juice and vanilla and
brush over the pears to prevent browning.
Sprinkle with brown sugar mixture and
spread the cubed pieces of butter evenly on
top of the pears.
4. Bake for 30 minutes sliced side up. Turn the
pears sliced side down and spoon the caramel
over the top of the pears to prevent browning.
Bake for an additional 20–40 minutes . Top off
with remaining caramel sauce and crushed
pecans. Serve with vanilla ice cream and
partridge pastry.
Ingredients
• 4 medium/large pears
peeled, cored and halved
• juice from half a lemon
• ¼ cup dark brown sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp all spice
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• pinch of salt
• 3 tsps chilled butter cut
into cubes
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• pecan pieces
• sweet short crust pastry
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- Acknowledgements -
My heartfelt thanks go to the wonderful
Catholic Mothers Planner 2024 Team:
Editors
Chiara and Pierpaolo Finaldi
Our Designer
Stephanie Loughnane
@stephaniegraphicdesign on Instagram
Our Illustrators
Chiara, Elena and Lucia Finaldi
Prayer Compiler
Chiara Finaldi
Activities Coordinator
Laura Williams
@catholicmothersoxford
Recipe Collector
Rebecca Finaldi and Roberta Lala
Special Thanks:
To my children first of all and to all the Catholic Mothers who have shown us love,
encouragement and support through the process of creating the planner year after year!
And to Ro & Mar Ceramics, artists from Sicily for providing
and helping me with some illustrations.

My past, O Lord,
to your mercy;
my present,
to your love;
my future,
to your providence.
- St Pio of Pietrelcina