On the occasion of the New Year 1935 Saint Maria Faustina made this entry in her spiritual Diary: "Jesus likes to intervene in the smallest details of our life. And He often fulfills secret wishes of mine that I sometimes hide from Him, although I know that from Him nothing can be hidden. There is a custom among us of drawing by lot on New Year’s Day, special patrons for ourselves for the whole year…”
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We are trying to get an early start on 2013. Dad initiated the saint selection for the family’s patron saint for 2013. Then each of us took a moment for prayer before we allowed a saint to select us as our personal patron saint for the year.*
We used the Saint’s Name Generator.
Here are our patron saints for 2013:
- Family – St. Guy of Anderlecht – Feast: September 12
- Dad – St. Paul the Apostle – Feast: June 29; January 25 (celebration of conversion)
- Mom – St. Bernard Scammacca – Feast: February 16 (fitting since I am due with Baby G on Feb. 17)
- Rose – St. George – Feast: April 23
- Sparkles – St. Charles Borromeo – November 5 (old) – November 4 (new)
- Sweetie – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Feast: January 4
*Only those who receive or will receive Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, selected a patron saint for the year. The boys will focus on growing in devotion to their namesakes.
Family Patron Saints from 2010 I 2011 I 2012.
What a great idea!!!
What a wonderful idea! I think we may follow suit. Thank you!
We will be picking our saints (or allowing them to pick us!) on Jan. 1st; and I’m already praying about it! I really like your idea about having the younger ones growing in devotion to their namesakes.
Beautiful!! What a wonderful tradition to pass on to your GFG’s.
Peace and Raw Health,
Elizabeth
We always do this. I usually do each one of us and last year I said ‘let’s just do one for the family’…and we picked – the Holy Family! Perfect!
Holy Family – pray for us
we’ll see who we get for 2013!
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