August/September

Holidays, Holy Days and Special Remembrances

Feast Days and Memorials

• The Transfiguration of the Lord- August 6 (Loyola Press)
• The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord- August 6 ( USCCB)
• Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord- August 6 (Our Sunday Visitor)
• Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary- August 15 (Loyola Press)
• Assumption of Mary Prayers - Feast Day August 15 (prayerist.com)
• Prayer for the Assumption of Mary (Catholic Online)
• St. Monica Prayer - Feast Day August 27 (Aleteia)
• Blessed Teresa of Calcutta - Feast Day September 5 (Loyola Press)
• Birth of Mary - Feast Day September 8 (Loyola Press)
• Our Lady of Sorrows - Feast Day September 8 (Sadlier Religion)
• St. Peter Claver Prayer Service 2020 (USCCB)
• St. Peter Claver - Saint of the Day for September 9 (Franciscan Media)
• Triumph of the Cross - Feast Day September 14 (Loyola Press)
• The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Santa Clara University)
• ​La Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (Santa Clara University)
• St. Vincent de Paul - Feast Day September 27 (Loyola Press)

Back to School

• Return to School During Covid 19 (Healthy Children)
• Back to School Tips for Parents (Scholastic) - Scholastic and Parent's Magazine offer a wide range of helpful tips for families preparing for a new school year including dealing with the first day jitters, what to do about lunch, creating a homework space at home and what kinds of questions to ask children in order to discuss the events of the school day.
• Back to School Activities (Loyola Press)
• Back to School - What Parents Need to Know (Catholic Mom)
• Starting School (Vibrant Faith) A faith activity for young children, preschool, kindergarten, first grade starting school.
• NEW! Blessing Backpacks:  Prayers and Resources (Building Faith)
• Blessing of the Backpacks:  Six Tips for Success (Building Faith)
• Blessing of the Devices (Building Faith)
• Prayers for Teachers, Students, Schools and Classrooms (prayerist.com)
• Prayer for New School Year Prayer Cards (Sadlier - We Believe and Share)
• Prayer for Students (USCCB)

 
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation - September 1

• Laudato Si' - Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis on Care for our Common Home (Vatican)
• Message of the Holy Father for the Celebration  of the "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation" (Vatican)
• Prayers to Care for Creation (USCCB)
• Prayer to Care for Our Common Home  (USCCB)
• Pray with Pope Francis(Global Catholic Climate Movement)  their new name is The Laudato Si Movement
• World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation  podcast  (Ignatian Spirituality- Loyola Press)
• World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (Loyola Press)
• Climate Change: It Changes Everything   video  (Catholic Relief Services- CRS)
• Season of Creation (Season of Creation Steering Committee)
• A Catholic Season of Creation Sundays of September (Columban Missionary Society of Australia)

 
Anniversary of 9-11 
A Prayer for the Anniversary of 9-11-01 (prayerist.com)

Grandparent's Day - First Sunday after Labor Day
Blessing of Grandparents (USCCB)
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Catechetical Sunday

• About Catechetical Sunday (USCCB)
• Catechetical Sunday resources - "Say the word and my soul shall be healed." - September 19, 2021 (USCCB)
• Pope Francis’ Antiquum Ministerium, "Instituting the Ministry of Catechist",  May 10, 2021  (Vatican)

World Day for Migrants and Refugees - Sept 26, 2021 (USCCB)
The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees is “Towards an even wider "we.”  An appeal to build a universal “we” —may this be achieved first and foremost within the Church, called upon to create communion within diversity.

• A backgrounder on IDPs is available from Justice for Immigrants (Catholic Current)
• Video - Pope Francis - (VIDEO -to know in order to understand)
• Resources for World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2021 (Migrants & Refugees Section, Integral Human Development, Vatican City)