Happy Birthday Mary!

On September 8th, we celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, also known as Mary's birthday!  To celebrate today we lit the candle that we made for the Queenship of Mary in August and prayed a decade of the Rosary together. 

We also made a fun birthday cake to sing "Happy Birthday" to Mary, because what is a birthday without cake!

Seton's Art 1 book's craft for today was making Birthday Cards for Mary and spoke about how we could give a gift to Mary by saying something good that we would do (pray the rosary, being nice, doing something special for someone, etc).  Our 3 year old thought that Mary probably really wants a train for her birthday (or maybe that is just what HE wants!)

In our Explore the Continents book we are learning this week about how different cultures celebrate Mary and we read Our Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie dePaula.  This is such a wonderful book to learn more about the amazing story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego! 

To continue exploring how different cultures learn about and pray to Mary we also brought out our new special Shining Light Mary dolls!  We have Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Our Lady of Fatima.  They also now have this adorable book about The Virgin Mary Around the World!! 

The Virgin Mary Around the World

We had a great time celebrating the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin!