As a part of my mothers rule of life I have scheduled in a cooking day on Saturday. Each Saturday I cook muffins, mini quiches, lunch for Sunday and tea for Saturday and Sunday night. I have scheduled this in so that we can make Sunday more of a Lords day.
The reality though is it has become a Therese day rather than a Lords day. Most of the housework is organised so that there isn't any major jobs to be done. The only jobs I do are those that are scheduled in every day.
So I want your ideas. We generally go to Mass on Saturday night. I have to tidy the main living areas and our bedroom, fold washing and prepare meals (this usually means heating them up since I have made them the day before).
Do you think we should be doing family activities? Should we just be hanging out like we do now? Should we do some extra prayers as a family?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Therese
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Therese i hope you don't mind a suggestion..but although we have saturday evening Mass & it is valid i feel the preference is for Sunday Mass. We are fortunate in having evening Vespers too. your schedule sounds fine to me...
I don't mind at all Jackie. STeve and I haven't really discussed this much. We have two masses in our parish. One on Saturday night and another one Sunday morning. We generally talk each Saturday morning which mass we will go to and unless there is something else on we both prefer the Saturday night one. Maybe going on Sunday would help us honour the Lord more. I will have to talk with Steve about this.
It's just the Pope (i think it was John Paul) asked that the First Holy Communions be celebrated on a Sunday & since then we've continued the practice..
I concur with the Sunday Mass suggestion. If you're looking for Sunday family activities -- some things we've enjoyed are writing in our family journal (soon to become scrapbooking/journaling), and playing family games, e.g., Monopoly.
scrapbooking is a great idea Stef. Thanks for the suggestion.
Therese, you could have family prayer time....maybe the Divine Mercy chaplet or rosary if that's not something you do regularly. What about coloring pages or an activity relating to the gospel for that particular Sunday?
We really don't pray the rosary much as a family or the devine mercy chaplet. I really like doing it though. It certainly could be a thing to do as a family each Sunday.
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