Build Your Family Tree
Trace your ancestry and build a family tree. Make it as simple or complex as you wish. Find a template online or draw a tree with branches showing how your family is connected. Write in the roots section where you grew up or other cities where your family has roots. Start with your immediate family and expand it to your extended family. Consult with grandparents, aunts, and uncles to get as much information as possible. Be creative and have fun!
Family as Image of the Trinity
God, our Father, through the holy sacrament of marriage, you have blessed us and bestowed on us the gift of families in different shapes and sizes. You created the family to be the image of the love and unity revealed to us in the Blessed Trinity. We commit ourselves to model that love and unity in our daily lives and in all our relationships.
Guide us on our journey as we read and reflect on your holy word. By your word, we are transformed, so that, by our witness, we may become leaven for the transformation of the world.
May the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us through our Baptism, shine through our interactions within our family and through our encounters with others.
May all families within our parish become hearers and followers of the word, so that our parish family might mirror the love and unity of you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever, Amen.
We honor the Trinity when we make the sign of the cross. When do we make the sign of the cross at Mass?
Get a Holy water font for your home. You can
find them online or at a local Catholic supply store. Put it by your front door
or the door you use the most at home. Ask your parish about getting some holy
water to fill it. Use it to make the sign of the cross before you leave your
home each day.
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