The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

After mass this morning we settled in to do some crafts and reading.

For our reading, we used Advent, Christmas and Epiphany in the Domestic Church and "The Girl With a Mission: St. Catherine Laboure" (CHC Reading Comprehension Vol. 1) .

Our crafts came from some fantastic online resources.

This crafty candle idea came from My Little Flower.

We are making an Our Lady of Guadalupe candle just like hers. :)

We found this great print out from Family in Feast and Feria. I learned today that the official name for the "Miraculous Medal" is the "Medal of the Immaculate Conception". There were so many conversions, cures, healings and blessings obtained by those wore or carried this medal that the name "Miraculous" stuck.

 Mark tried his medal on for size, but we decided to hang them in the kitchen window.

Our feast day table:

That awesome coloring page in the center is from Catholic Icing.

I have to admit that my boys, even being the good sports that they usually are, sort of balked when they saw the coloring page. We talked about the meaning of the picture- which they thought was pretty cool- and  agreed to each color a part of it if I colored the face. Done. :)

*Please understand that my boys unwillingness to want to color the picture is in no way reflective of how adorable the picture is. Or, rather, maybe it is. ;)

Their idea of a really cool picture to color was St. Sabastian from Paper Dali- a saint with weapons! That is okay. I love this one and they were willing to color it for me.

We also watched Bernadette: The Princess of Lourdes.