Celebrating the Liturgical Year...As a College Student
Hello everyone! Today, I would like to write a bit about how I celebrate the liturgical year as a college student who lives away from home. If you know me, you know that I absolutely LOVE the Saints. And so it makes sense that I should also absolutely LOVE to celebrate not only their feast days, but all the feasts of the Church! Growing up, my Mom always made a point of celebrating certain feasts, like the Blessed Mother's birthday (we would always make the Blessed Mother cards and have a procession to a statue we had of her in our backyard, singing and laying our cards at her feet as well as have dessert that night), and our Baptismal days (for these she would make us muffins and we would get to blow out a candle after everyone sang "Happy Baptismal day to you"). However, it was not until I was a freshman or sophomore in high school that I really started to make a point of trying to celebrate the liturgical year after hearing my parish priest give a homily. (It had to be...