VIII. Liturgical calendar/ year, which is derived from the life of Christ, sets the tone of the Catholic home
This is a common element in Catholic homes. The awareness of the liturgical year, complete with feast days, solemnities, colors, and prayers. Holy Spirit Novena, the granddaddy of them all, starts from Ascension to Pentecost and is a direct command of the Risen Lord.
- Ideas for incorporating a Catholic ethos Carrol Houselander, Mary Reed Newland, and other books in the library
Traditions change, ebb and flow, good to know actual practices people having been doing for 100, 2000 years. Profoundly comfort. Doing of them is good. Brings truth and beauty, anchoring, reason to come home. Modify without destroying it.
>> Marian element Do whatever He tells you. She pondered these things in her heart. Stood at the foot of the Cross. Received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost the birth of the Church. Her Assumption, Coronation, and multitude of apparitions through the years highlights her essential role in the Catholic home.
>> Maundy Thursday, we have a modified Seder meal. It has catechized both my children and visitors through the years. Listening to the readings (tie into the liturgy) never are heard the same way again. Mary Reed Newland
>> Library this is very helpful.
The expressions vary and are specific to the locale.
- Common elements, different expressions given individual homes or culture the person/ family lives in
Analogy to a prism, white light enters a prism, and different colors of light are expressed. Though we know light is more than these colors seen, it is at least these wavelengths
Similarly, when we say God is love, i.e. John, love too has many facets. But if we think of the mind of Paul, as a prism, to see the components of God and the actions of Christ we can say God has at least these expressions and is the source of them.
The Spectrum of Love has 9 ingredients 1 Cor 13[1]
Patience, kindness, generosity, humility, courtesy, unselfishness, good temper, guilelessness, sincerity these make up the Supreme Good, the love of God, and the portrait of Christ. Ethos of the home.
Each virtue is worthy of its own consideration, taken together it does seem daunting but our Lord bids us to follow Him. Our Lady says do whatever he tells you. The Love of the Father, example of Jesus, indwelling of the Holy Spirit permits us to be so daring.
Sincerity is a blessing, effort to do good. Who observes us like we do an infant, angels and saints. Doing our good heavenly personages cheering us on to greater goodness. Culmination of hope of us being with them. Train the child to be in communion with them.
Traditions are beautiful in 20 years. Touch their hearts, great privilege see them establish their own homes. Passage of goodness from generation to generation.
[XI. Addendum
Mat 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven (as Jesus did summarized in part by 1 Cor 13).
“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who (home) on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.
Goal of a Catholic Home is to foster the family members to get to heaven (personal sanctification) and to bring as many people as possible with them (charity to neighbor). The behaviors, décor, to a greater or lesser extent flow from Christ.]
[1]Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World (Collins: London 1891) 32-33 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16739/16739-h/16739-h.htm accessed December 4, 2024
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