Make Your Own Ornaments
Create your own salt dough ornaments to hang on your Christmas tree or to give as gifts. You need only three ingredients: flour, salt, and water.
Mix together 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 cup table salt, and 1 cup of warm water to make a dough. Roll the dough between two pieces of parchment or wax paper and then use cookie cutters to cut whatever shape you choose. Put them on a parchment-lined baking sheet and create a small hole somewhere on the ornament for a ribbon or ornament hook so you can hang it on the tree. Bake at 250 F for about 2 hours or until the ornaments are dry. Once cool, you can paint them if you wish. Consider lightly spraying them with a coat of polyurethane spray for the ornament to last for years to come.
Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary
We hear Elizabeth say to Mary, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Join in this prayer today with a family Rosary.
Recite a rosary together as a family, meditating on the Joyful Mysteries. Offer each decade (set of 10 Hail Marys) for something for which you are grateful. To find the prayers of the rosary and the joyful mysteries, please visit http://www.usccb.org/prayer-an...
Today’s Gospel is filled with joy! Which part of Mass was most joyful to you today?
Get together with some other families and
go Christmas caroling, sharing the news of Jesus’ birth.
Mary traveled around 81 miles from Nazareth to the Judean countryside where Elizabeth lived. She stayed there for three months.
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