So this is one of those posts that I started back in February and planned to post before the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, but apparently didn't have time. But how convenient that I just found it and we are two days from celebrating St. Bernadette Soubirous! So killing two birds with one stone. Or something like that...
My family actually did celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11, so I will share some of the things we did, as well as some other ideas.
Read
I've really been working to build our library of Catholic saints, so I have several good books with information about St. Bernadette. We read Our Lady of Lourdes by Father Lovasik. It's expensive on Amazon, but I got it from a local Catholic gift shop for $1.99.We also have the Loyola Kids Book of Saints, which is an awesome compilation of well-known saints and their stories, including St. Bernadette. You could buy the e-book version if you had to have it in time.
A few other children's books about St. Bernadette and Lourdes, that might be worth checking out can be found here, here, and here.
Watch
We watch Bernadette, The Princess of Lourdes from CCC, which tells the story of Our Lady appearing to Bernadette. It is a very cute 30 minute movie. A friend from church lent us their copy, and my girls love it! You might be able to find a copy in your church's library, or you can buy one from the CCC for the next couple days 50% off!
Our family also watched The Song of Bernadette that we got on DVD from Netflix, which is a black and white telling of the story made in 1943. It is very well done, and my girls both watched it with us and enjoyed it. Plus Vincent Price plays the pompous, Atheist prosecutor who tries to break Bernadette's spirits. You can't really beat that. So good.
Color
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| Our Lady of Lourdes coloring page Catholic Playground |
Each of the kiddos (my girls and nephew) colored one of these lovely Our Lady of Lourdes coloring pages from from Catholic Playground.
Make
Grace (5) made an Our Lady of Lourdes holy water font for her room. It was pretty cute to see how excited she was to have her own holy water font. Love it! So we used this idea from Cottage Blessings as inspiration, and this is what Grace made.
I bought the wood plaque for $1 at the craft store, the brackets to nail into the back (which are found in the framing section), modge podge, a foam brush, and a bag of mosaic tiles (these were a little expensive, but I wanted something that would look nice, not junky). The picture of Our Lady of Lourdes I found online, printed, and we modge-podged it to the wood. I like the idea of using a clear plastic shot glass to hold the water, but I couldn't really find anything that would work at the craft store, so we went with half of a plastic Easter egg. Warning, many plastic eggs have holes in them, so be sure to find one without a hole!
Pray
This is a perfect feast day to pray a family rosary, just as St. Bernadette prayed the rosary with Mary. Our Lady of Lourdes is also known for healing, so pray some intentions for those you know who are sick or in need of healing. You could also pray the Our Lady of Lourdes novena.
Eat
Since Lourdes, where Bernadette lived and the apparitions took place, is in France, we listened to the traditional French Pandora music station as we ate a French dish called Chicken Chasseur. There are lots of options though, like eating food that is white or blue, since Our Lady of Lourdes was wearing a white robe with a blue sash. Maybe blueberry crepes with white whipped cream? You know, I'd eat that for the sake of a feast day.
Now I saved the best for last. Because this is fantastic. Wait for it....
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| Rice Crispy Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto Catholic Cuisine |
Yeah, you saw that right. A rice crispy treat grotto. With Mary. This was by the far the easiest, most delicious, most kid-enthusiastic thing we did. And no mine was not this fancy with colored leaves. When the rice crispy and marshmallow delicious mix was still warm, I molded it into a grotto. And then I placed the Mary from our play Nativity set into it. Boom.
Now that we did all that for the Feast in February, I've got to come up with some quick ideas for St. Bernadette's feast day this week.
If you have any ideas, let me know in the comments below!
-Jessica
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