CATHOLIC
1. Liturgical Seasons
2. Prayer
3. Special Devotions
4. Sacraments
5. Christmas
6. Easter
7. Parochial School
1. Liturgical Seasons
Advent
and Christmas season
Lent
and Easter season to Pentecost
Ordinary
time - the rest of the year
Cycle
(sanctorial) of feast days of saints
Solemnities:
Trinity, Body and Blood of Christ,
Sacred
Heart, Christ the King, Assumption,
Immaculate Conception, All Saints Day
and All Souls Day
On
All Souls Day we pray for souls in purgatory
2. Prayer
Mass
every Sunday
Liturgy
of the Hours (Christian Prayer)
Family
prayer
Grace
before and after meals
Prayer
at bedtime
Saying
the rosary
Novenas
Meditation
3. Special Devotions
Praying
to Mary - rosary
May crowning in some parishes
Everyone's
favorite saints
First
Friday devotion - attend mass
Sacred
Heart picture in house
St. Jude for hopeless cases
4. Sacraments
Important family celebrations
are especially
significant for children
Baptism and Confirmation
Reconciliation (penance) forgives sins
First Holy Communion (Eucharist)
Ordination of deacon, priest, bishop
Marriages
Sacrament of the sick
Funerals
5. Christmas
Advent season
Penitential services
(confession)
Advent wreath
Christmas tree
Christmas presents
Mass Christmas day
Epiphany
6. Easter
Ash Wednesday and
ashes
Lent with fasting and abstaining
Penitential
services (Confession)
Stations of the Cross
Palm distributed on
palm sunday
Holy Thursday and washing
of the feet
Good Friday and
adoration of the cross
Easter Vigil and new
converts enter church
Easter duty - confession and communion
Fire, Easter baskets,
egg hunt
Ascension Thursday
Pentecost
7. Parochial School
Sending children to
parochial school
CCD for those in
public school
Youth groups
Getting to know many
parishioners
CPPoole, August 30 1999, October 17 2005