Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast ...

by Meredith Gould

?about the book:

?For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to modern Roman Catholics.

Using the liturgical calendar, The Catholic Home provides familiar and new ways to celebrate each season and its special days. Gould reviews major holy days, select saints? days, familiar prayers, and suggests meaningful ways to prepare as a family for such sacraments as Baptism, Confirmation, First Eucharist, and Matrimony.

This book includes a concise history of each ritual and clarifies the meaning behind it by highlighting celebrations of Catholic holidays from different parts of the globe. Your family will learn to make Advent wreaths, Jesse trees, St. Lucy?s crowns, King?s cakes, All Souls altars, traditional foods, and participate in family devotions.

Throughout The Catholic Home, Gould?s down-to-earth practicality and sense of humor give the activities she describes modern relevance no matter how ancient their origins. Excerpts from the official Catechism of the Catholic Church are included to illuminate Church doctrine on matters of faith and ritual. This indispensable guide will appeal to Catholics young and old and inspire beloved family traditions to be handed down from one generation to the next.

?my thoughts:

This is a book? that every catholic home should have on their bookshelf. Actually this is one you will want to use lots so down with in arms reach is a better idea. This book is one you can read cover to cover when you first get it, high light stuff you want to do or just thumb through it when the certain day comes up.
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What I love about this book is the Celebrating at Home activities don't require you to run to the store and buy tons of items it uses items you already have in your home or items that are not that expensive and you will use them over and over. The Celebrating at Home also offers several activities so if one doesn't fit your family then read the others. Take for instance St Michael and the Archangels Gabriel and Raphael (Michaelmas 9/29) you could do 1 or all 3 of the activities: from eating duck or goose (which is not for us) or giving a bouquet of carrots (my girls think this sounds like fun) to having St. Michael's bannock for breakfast (which we have to try this recipe!)

The Catholic Home would be a wonderful gift to give new parents along with a family bible or children's bible. This is a wonderful and valuable resource that every catholic home will get so much out of. I can see that ours will be very dog-eared and worn out by the time my girls are all grown up! I will have to get a copy for each of them and place in their Hope Chest of books that I've started. I plan to hand down all kinds of treasured and loved books for them to share with their own family when that time comes. The Catholic Home would be perfect for this!

I wrote this review of The Catholic Home for the free Catholic book review program, created by Aquinas and More Catholic Goods

Aquinas and More is the largest on-line Catholic bookstore.

I receive free product samples as compensation for writing reviews for Tiber River.

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