Feast of St. Jerome

 

Each year we try to learn about a few Saints who are new to our family.  This year one of those Saints is St. Jerome, whose feast day we celebrate on September 30th and who is the Patron Saint of Librarians.  We love the story St. Jerome and the Lion by Margaret Hodges that beautifully tells a story of St. Jerome and his history of living in Bethlehem and translating the Bible into Latin.  We also have a little statue of St. Jerome that hangs at the entrance of our own home library.

 

As we have continued homeschooling and our little ones have learned how to read our love of books continues to grow.  We typically visit the city library once a week and also love to find all of the Free Little Libraries around town!  This summer we even collected all of our books (and lots of books that my and my husband's parents had collected over the years) to make our own home library.  Once our home library was made our oldest son Ryan fell in love with being our "librarian".  Every day he collects the books that he and his brothers have read, sorts them, re-shelves them and then sits down to read, read and read some more!

 

 

Over the past handful of months, one thing that we have been trying to do as a family is discover and explore all of the different public libraries in our city.  It is so much fun to see what different fun things that they all have to do, and also use our library skills to know how to find different kinds of books at new places!  We also have our children learn that when they are not sure how to find a book that they are looking for that they need to approach the librarian on their own to talk to him or her and ask the proper questions.  We have had so much fun and have explored seven different branches of our city library so far!

 

St. Jerome, patron saint of Librarians, pray for us!