A new month is just beginning, and it’s time to revisit the feast table. This time I’m showing you what’s going on with our September feast table. If you are new here and want to know more about what the feast table is, how we got started with one, and how we use ours, check out these posts.
- Here is why I started the feast table in our home
- Here is how we do family devotions around the feast table
- Here are all the feast table posts thus far
- Here is the planner I use to keep track of all those special feast days
September Dedication: Our Lady of Sorrows
September Feast Days:
- 3rd St. Gregory the Great
- 5th Blessed Mother Teresa (will be canonized this year!)
- 8th Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary
- 9th St. Peter Claver
- 12th The Most Holy Name of Mary
- 13th St. John Chrysostom
- 14th The Exaltation of the Cross
- 21st St. Matthew
- 23rd St. Padre Pio
- 26th St. Cosmos and Damien
- 27th St. Vincent de Paul
- 28th St. Wenceslaus
- 29th Feast of the Archangels
- 30th St. Jerome
September Feast Table Book basket:
- Monthly Dedication: Books about Mary (check out Marian Must Reads for Ideas!)
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (5th)
- Mother Teresa: The Saint of Calcutta (5th)
- Who Was Mother Teresa? (5th) (looks to be written by a non-Catholic)
- Mother Teresa by Demi (5th)
- St. Peter Claver: Patron Saint of Slaves (9th)
- The Queen and the Cross: The Story of St. Helen (14th)
- St. Helena and the True Cross (14th)
- Padre Pio by Winkler (23rd)
- St. Pio of Pietrelcina: Rich in Love (23rd)
- Vincent de Paul: Saint of Charity (27th)
- St. Jerome and the Lion by Godden (30th) ^*
- St. Jerome and the Lion by Hodges (30th) ^*
(^ denotes books we have read, * denote family favorites!)
Our September Feast Table Plans:
You can see what our September feast table looks like up above. The Mary statue was given to us by friends who had just purchased a box of Catholic statuary at an estate auction. They kindly offered for us to pick a few statues to take home. Apollo liked this Mary, so she became ours. She is perfect for the September feast table as we remember the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
The image of the Assumption is actually a Mass card that I received recently in the mail. I found this frame in the attic that and it fit perfectly. Our rosaries are in the dish on the left and the crucifix is on the right of the table (you can see it in the picture at the end of this post). I’m all about using what you have on hand!
Our family doesn’t have any permanent liturgical traditions (yet!) for September, and nothing really jumps out at me as something I want to incorporate. Do you have any suggestions? I find there is an ebb and flow to the business of the liturgical seasons. Some months we have all sorts of feast days, special meals, and activities, and other months are much more sparse.
Learn about Our Lady of Sorrows
I’ve been working on learning something new liturgically every month – we can never exhaust the riches of the Catholic faith, can we? I’ve learned about St. Rose of Lima (August) and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (July). This month I’ll be focusing on the dedication for the month and digging into the meaning of Our Lady of Sorrows. I’d love it if you had any information to pass along to me!
Indian Food for Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa is being canonized this year, and we’ll try to cook up some sort of Indian dish in her honor. My mother used to make a pretty tasty Indian Chicken Curry. Do you have any other kid friendly suggestions?
Reading lots of Good Books
While we don’t have a lot of liturgically appropriate books on hand for September, we’ll be making a trek to the local library to see what we can unearth. Good literature is really my favorite way to live the liturgical year in a simple way (check out our family’s list of Must Reads for Young Catholics).
September Feast Table Links:
Here are a few helpful links as you plan your month!
- Shower of Roses Bookbasket (a very extensive list including anthologies and out of print or rare books)
- Food to celebrate the September Feast Days from Catholic Cuisine
- Here is why I started the feast table in our home
- Here is how we do family devotions around the feast table
- Here are all the feast table posts thus far
- Here is the planner I use to keep track of all those special feast days
What do you have planned this month?
Hi!
I just wanted to take a second and tell you how blessed I have been by your blog. I am a homeschooling mom of 8. I was a cradle Catholic but walked away from the church completely 7 years ago. (even after going through adult Confirmation classes and my husbands RCIA classes years ago) It’s a long story but my husband was stop lost this past April and is now deployed in an undisclosed location. These past months have been really difficult as we have had no support where we live and both of my parents are deceased. God hasn’t left me though and through His divine love, and that of His mother they touched my heart and we are now on our way back to the church. I now have 5 kids to Baptize, 3 who need their First Communion and one that is wanting to start Confirmation classes next year once we move back down south. O.O lol The Lord works in mysterious ways!
One day last month I stumbled upon your Blog and imm got my pen and paper and wrote down every Feast day for August that you shared and then wrote them all on our family calendar in hopes that it would give us all something to look forward to… and it did. Thank you so much! I just wrote down this months feast days and will be putting them on the calendar tomorrow. My husband is scheduled to come home at the end of October so we are in major need of the time left to fly by. He left me with 7 kids to care for, our youngest two are 6 months old and 17 months old. We didn’t even find out that he had been stop lost until a few weeks before they shipped him. We then moved from a rental on land to a subdivision where I could better care for the home and children. It has been so hard. You sharing your Feast Tables has been really nice. So thank you!
Kristy
Kristy- Your comment brings so much joy to my heart. I plug away on this blog, partly to motivate myself to live the kind of life I want to, but also because I want to touch others. I never know if I’m reaching others, and your comment was so well-timed and beautifully encouraging. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I cannot imagine the times you are going through right now. Husband has had busy seasons with business travel, but never has he been “shipped out.” I know those times where he is gone can be so hard – I cannot imagine the hole in your life right now. Entering or reentering the Church is such an exciting time and I hope it will bring you much joy. 7 children – I’m terribly jealous! How blessed you have been! God must have great faith in you! May the Holy Spirit encourage and equip you to raise these future saints. God bless! I will be keeping you and your whole family in my prayers.
Elizabeth, Thank you for your sweet reply. I am just now replying myself because I didn’t get a notification so I came and checked. 🙂 I too have a blog, although I’m not very active at the moment. I also haven’t begun sharing my reversion story. I’m in teh middle of living it and it’s raw and so personal at the moment.
I’ve had a blog off and on for years and so many times I would think about stopping it, yet for some reason (God 😉 ) I never did. Because of that I have had people contact me and let me know how God used my Blog in their life. One was a woman who had had an abortion years ago. I was a teenage mother, pregnant at 16 (that’s my 8th child not from my husband) and spoke of this on one of my posts years ago. I also said that I had considered abortion and that I knew there were some women out there that made a different choice than me and that although it hurt my heart I understood where they were and I hurt for them. I told anyone reading that our God was a merciful God and was waiting to forgive them should they be repentant and ask. I didn’t think anyone would read this but I felt led to write it anyway. Low and behold a woman contacted me and began talking to me, pouring her heart out about an abortion she had had many years earlier. Come to find out the child she aborted would have been my age, almost to the month. O.O She didn’t know this when she contacted me. She said me telling her that God forgave her was like her own child doing so. She had felt so much guilt for so long. She was not a Christian. She was a Buddhist but had been questioning God. When I spoke to her I told her of our God and how incredible He is. I was in my mid-thirties at the time. She had held on to all that pain for over 30 years. She said she hadn’t told hardly anyone about it. Anyway, I was about to stop my blog because I thought it was pointless. It wasn’t. This is why I wanted to take the time to thank you and to let you know that God is using you too. <3
*hugs*
Kristy
What a touching story, Kristy! I’ll be checking out your blog and following your story as you choose to share it…
Kimberly Hahn has a wonderful talk on Our Lady of Sorrows through Lighthouse Catholic Media – it’s one of my favorites!
https://www.lighthousecatholicmedia.org/store/title/drawing-strength-from-our-lady-of-sorrows#
I love Lighthouse Catholic Media. Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on it!
Thank you for your blog Elizabeth. We have 3 childre with number 4 on the way and we are always on the look out for ways to make the Catholic faith come alive for our children. God bless you for all your efforts and thank you for sharing your resources and ideas.
Jacinta
Thank you, Jacinta (by the way – what a special name!). Congratulations on #4! What a gift!