Lena {JOYfilledfamily}

All Saints Party

October 30, 2010 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: All Saints Day, Crafts 7 Comments

We are anxiously awaiting All Saints Day, a time to give thanks and praise for all of the Church Triumphant.

We plan to attend our parish’s Annual All Saints Eve Party. It’s wonderful to celebrate the feast days at church.

Hopefully, I’ll have their saint costumes ready by this evening and I won’t have to pull off an all-nighter.

I did find time early this morning to create hand-painted goody bowls for a friend who will also be hosting a fabulous All Saints Eve party. I can’t wait to ~~have some candy~~ share this feast day with our parish community and friends.

Painted Pumpkins

October 30, 2010 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: All Saints Day, Fall, Pumpkin Patch 5 Comments

We decided to forgo pumpkin carving this year. The girls want to make pumpkin pie with their pumpkins and I’m a bit under the weather at the moment. We plan digging into the pumpkins at a later time, when all are well. For now, I pulled out the paint.

Sparkles decided to paint the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Sweetie chose St. Clare, of course.

Rose played it safe with her favorite JMJ design.

Papi took to a camouflage cross.

Check out Catholic Cuisine for more pumpkin creations.

Dessert & Prayers

October 30, 2010 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Recipe, St. Crispin

St. Crispin & St. Crispian

Oct. 25

Sparkles eagerly requested that dad make an apple crisp in honor of St. Crispin’s feast day. She loves all apple desserts.

We used Charlotte’s recipe since Rose’s favorite apple crisp recipe calls for oats, which we did not have.

St. Crispin is a patron saint of leather workers and is often depicted with shoemaker’s tools. Thus, we found it only fitting to offer prayers for our dear old friend, Pietro a shoemaker. He is in his 90s and is still making shoes in his little factory. He made Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s sandals. God bless his humble soul.

Time Flies

October 20, 2010 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Dragonfly

Dragonfly is already 5 months old. We’ve enjoyed every second but would like the time to slow down.

He loves being outdoors.

He’s two bottom teeth are prominent and his two top teeth are swollen, ready to break through, soon.

Sweetie is our go-to girl for helping with Dragonfly. Her specialty is putting him to bed. She bounces him to sleep on the exercise ball or on the couch. She is a pro!

Parties From the Past

October 19, 2010 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: All Saints Day 3 Comments

We have been attending our parish’s All Saints Day Parties for the past 5 years.

Here is a glimpse of the fun.

2009

the pumpkins were the creations of other saints from church

here are more pictures of…kids dressed up as saints….delicious carmel apples….pumpkin fun

2008

We participated in the Procession & Litany of Saints.

We hosted the St. Germaine’s Candy in a Haystack booth. We hid candy in the hay and each kid/saint was given an allotted amount of time to search for the candy.

Her appearance was such that her stepmother refused to allow Germaine to live in the house with her father’s new family and so she was quartered in a stable and slept on hay.

Saint Germaine died at the age of 22 alone at night in the barn where she slept.

2005

Rose ~ St. Lucy

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