A template for our minor feasts

With February right around the corner, I'm looking today at the template for our monthly studies and the "minor feast" that kicks it all off (this name is a play on the "major feasts" of the liturgical calendar; our own major feasts are the ones that kick off the new season). Here is a collection of ideas for the celebration. Next, I'll share what our studies look like for the month of February. 

Minor Feast Template

Date: Around the first of every month

Agenda: tea party with lessons and workshops in the liberal and common arts related to our monthly themes and the four cycles of life in the month and season

*Light the seasonal candle and say the monthly grace and prayers for milestones of family and friends that month, sing litany of special saints of the month

* Serve the special themed drink and treat of the month or season, or something related to our monthly studies

*Play the monthly memory work or themed music in the background, reveal the monthly collage-still life and any other art study of the month

*Reading of an overview of what we are studying that month in the four cycles of life-- liturgical calendar, special saints, history and biographies, nature lesson and study. Talk about any special themes, crafts, events, etc. of the month

*Recitation of monthly multilingual memory work: prayer, hymn, poem, quote/proverb, word, storytelling, dance lyrics

*Update family journals-Book of Days, Stories We Shared, Family History…

*Sharing of memories, traditions, stories, etc. associated with the month

*Do a craft or homesteading lesson

*Go for a monthly nature study stroll with journals

*Do a folk dance indoors or outdoors



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