Living Liturgically

Ways to Cultivate the Faith At Home

We all love holidays like Christmas and Fourth of July; we also enjoy national days such as National Donut Day and National Fly a Kite Day. We, as Catholics, are blessed to have a year brimming with holy days and feasts days that we have the opportunity to celebrate with special meals or activities. This is not an exhaustive list; see below for some suggestions on how to celebrate our Christian year! 

"The Christian home is the place where children receive the first proclamation of the faith. For this reason the family home is rightly called “the domestic church,” a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues and of Christian charity" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1666).

May 2: St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

• Read about the lives of these Apostles and about the origin of their feast day. 
  
• Ask St. Philip for his intercession, so that more people might “come and see” the goodness of the Lord. 
  
• Ask St. James the just for his intercession, so that God might also give us a zeal for justice and righteousness.

• Read the account of Christ’s ascension: (Acts 1:3-11). 
  
• Pray that Christ might return soon, bringing eternal peace and justice to the Earth.

• Read this short reflection on the life of St. Philip Neri.
  
• Ask for St. Philip’s intercession, that the laity might be strengthened in faith.

• Read (Acts 2:1-47). 
  
• Pray that the Holy Spirit would empower all faithful Catholics to boldly proclaim their faith in truth as St. Peter did. 

• Pray the Rosary. 
  
• Read the account of the visitation: (Luke 1:39-56). 

• Live stream a daily Mass from EWTN 
  
• Listen to Fr. Rusty's homilies and read his Monday articles
  
• Livestream Eucharistic Adoration from the EWTN Chapel
  
• Do lectio divina with the daily readings
  
• Do some spiritual reading. Access a list of books recommended by Fr. Rusty here 
  
• Read Magnificat's daily meditation

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