Family Formation

Have you been following Flat Father Jim’s summer adventures?  At our May Family Formation meeting, we had supplies for all the kids to color and laminate their own Flat Father along with this challenge:

Bring your faith along on all your summer activities!

Vacation, swimming lessons, road trips, weekends at the cabin, day trips, summer weddings, family visits, camping, soccer games, rainy days at home, Mass at other parishes, summer school, picnics  … the list is endless!

Whatever you do this summer, take Flat Father Jim along as a reminder to bring your faith with you!

Take photos and post them to Instagram, twitter, or Facebook with the #WeGetToGoToMass or email to sue@churchofsaintpaul.com and we’ll post for you.

Well, the photos have been coming in and we’d like to share a few with you!

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If you’d like to follow the fun, look for the hashtag #WeGetToGoToMass on Instagram and Facebook, and if you’d like to join in you can download your own Flat Father Jim to print.

Do a little planning and have a faith-filled summer for your whole family!  This article from EpicPew fits in well with the summer fun we have going on over here.

It’s so good to be Catholic!  We always have reason to celebrate the love of Christ, and a great way to express that love is through the feasts that are part of the Church calendar.

We are almost always in favor of dessert and can personally attest to the value of food-related celebrations.  (Your kids will remember these lessons forever!)  Check out this post from Catholic Cuisine and make plans for some future tasty lessons!

Trinity Sundaes, anyone?

COSP parents, if you read to the end of my May announcements email you may have seen this:

A number of you did reply and we have a winner!  Julie Dietz, you can expect your box of Fun Stuff to arrive soon.

Thanks to everyone who has read any of the announcements at any point in the past year.  Putting them in print allows us to use our time together in a better way and it also gives me a forum for connecting you with other great resources in the parish and the diocese (and beyond) that may be of interest to your family.  Email gives you access to them throughout the month rather than requiring you to take notes while I would be giving details, and it’s just easier to follow links anyway.

So, win/win/win and thanks again!

We’re posting this early so you have a little time to plan.

Christmas and Easter are the two times of the year where it’s still mostly acceptable to be “religious,” so go for it!  If your extended family is getting together, consider it a perfect opportunity for your darling children to share what they’re learning about Jesus with Grandma or Uncle Tim, or whoever’s there with you.  The Easter Activity Packet gives you lots of ways to make sure Jesus is invited to your family dinner.  Make a banner for your hostess, create a lamb-shaped batch of dinner rolls, bring Easter eggs decorated with something besides bunnies or share your Alleluia’s as you arrive!

Christ is risen!  Let’s make sure everyone knows it.