Today is the feast day of one of our family’s favorite saints: Saint Therese of Lisieux. 🙂 We named our second child after her — so today is also our daughter’s “Nameday”! (“What’s a Nameday?,” you may ask… More info here.). We only started celebrating our children’s “Namedays” last year, so I am still getting the hang of it. 😛
To celebrate, we plan to read about Saint Therese, have some cake and, hopefully, visit Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, just as Saint Therese loved to do. 🙂 We will also watch these videos:
A simple but meaningful (I hope!) celebration. 😉
In case you want to celebrate this special day too, here are some links to great resources:
Background of today’s feast (Memorial of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and Doctor of the Church) via Catholic Culture (includes suggested activities)
Printable Activity Sheets from Shower of Roses plus more ideas
Ideas from Holy Family Classical Academy
For us parents — a good read from CatholicMom.com: Can We Help Our Children to Become Saints?
To end, here’s one of my favorite quotes from the Little Flower of Jesus, taken from my latest article for CatholicMom.com:
May we spend this day and beyond with hearts surging, looking towards Heaven, and crying out in recognition of God’s amazing love for us! Saint Therese of Lisieux, pray for us! 🙂
