feast of St Ignatius of Loyola

It was the feast of St Ignatius Loyola. Lived in 

Fun in water !!

We went again to 'The Carrs', for a countryside walk . Children had a beautiful time with Karinatan family, enjoyed the water and we did some cricket and kids enjoyed riding their bikes.

Munnu is having a water marathon!!!

Feast of Sts Joachim and Anne

Since it was Annu's feast day too, we went for holy mass.  Before that Annu and Munn read about Jesus grandparents. We said some prayers to St Anne, as she is the patron saint of homemakers.








As it is a tradition for girls named Anne wears red and green, annu herself wore a red ribbon on her hair when she went for mass along with theresu.















Did attempt to do some coloring.






Read from catholic cuisine about watermelon slush , thought to be ideal for this feast day and on this summertime. We didn't make slush, though we ate some watermelon , reminded of st Anne.

SeaLIFE Manchester

On Monday we went to visit Sealife Manchester, beautiful underwater world for kids to explore .

                                    Save Turtles around the world

                                       
                                     There  are sharks, seahorses,  turtles, Rayfish, jellyfish etc.

                                 Very very pretty coral reefs, colourful, enjoyed it.

 

Our Lady Of Mt Carmel Feast Day

It was a beautiful marian feast of  Our L ady Of Mount Carmel yesterday the July 16th. We could began the day with H.Mass. We read about significance of mount carmel. Hermites founded the carmelite order on Mount Carmel and they were dedicated to Mother Mary, themselves titled as Our Lady Of Mt Carmel. Later Our lady Mt Carmel appeared  to St Simon Stock, the leader of the order and gave him  scapular.




Found some beautiful pictures drawn by members of St John the baptist church through catholic icing. Thanks Lacy.

                               
                                      Munnu's coloring sheet

                                   Annu's picture

                             
                                Children drew some pictures of brown scapular.

 They made it well. Munnu thought of started wearing scapular which I had only one left with me. Chocolate cookies were made in the afternoon.


  Since wearing scapular by munnu, an amazing miracle happened to him too. He was riding in his bike in  town centre in the evening, ended up in falling from his bike, hit on a wooden plank. Thank God, nothing much happened, bulged his forehead quite a bit. I believe it was a motherly protection, which is of course by wearing the scapular.

                              "Whosoever dies clothed in this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire"Our lady's scapular promise.


                        Our Lady Of Mount Carmel pray for us.

A Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

O most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help me, and show thou art my Mother.

O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech thee from the bottom of my heart, to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand thy power. Oh, show me herein thou art my Mother.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

(3 times)

Sweet Mother, I place this cause in thy hands. (3 times)

                                        
                                            

Pot- Pourri. Make it !

It is sad to see that most garden flowers last only for a short time. So we thought of make them last a little longer by making a pot-pourri.

So we  picked some fresh flowers. These are the flowers in our garden.

Kids picked some fresh flowers from the garden, and I was bit reluctant to let them pick flowers, however we started it. Choose a warm dry day to collect petals.

kids collected it in an open tray.. Placed it in a an airing space in our house to dry.

Annu and Theresu watered plants once they collected the petals, as it was a real hot day.

After two three days !! Smell is getting better as soon as you pass close to it !.So nice refreshing smell. Added rose petals and some lavender too.

After about a week, it became dry. Smells really great. I am planning to add few drops of rose oil to make it smell even better. So pot pourri will be ready to display it on some window side to love the fresh smell of summer garden.

Summer concert 2013

It was a nice time to see all the home educating children performing a summer concert in st joseph home for the residents there. Many played piano, violin and sang songs.


Munnu played ' twinkle twinkle' and Annu did 'Mary had a little  lamb' in piano. So delighted to see all of them with different skills. It went for about an hour and all enjoyed .BYE  homeschooling families for now till we meet up in september after school holidays.