To support our students’ family and home as the domestic church, every child in our program gets a May Prayer Table Kit the last class in April, before the first of May. The catechists in the programs help me assemble the kits…which consist of small paper bags (lunch bags) that contain a small strip of blue cloth, a holy card of Mary with The Memorare on the back, and a small artificial rose pedal (from flowers I buy at a dollar store). At the end of that last class in April, every catechist takes time to offer brief comments about May being a month that the Church devotes especially to Mary as the Mother of our Savior. Catechists share with their students some of the stories about Mary from the Bible (reading them or paraphrasing them), and then they hand out the May Prayer Table Kits, encouraging youngsters to take the kit home and create a small prayer area devoted to Mary during the month of May. —A. T., Minneapolis, MN
To support our students’ family and home as the domestic church, every child in our program gets a May Prayer Table Kit the last class in April, before the first of May. The catechists in the programs help me assemble the kits…which consist of small paper bags (lunch bags) that contain a small strip of blue cloth, a holy card of Mary with The Memorare on the back, and a small artificial rose pedal (from flowers I buy at a dollar store). At the end of that last class in April, every catechist takes time to offer brief comments about May being a month that the Church devotes especially to Mary as the Mother of our Savior. Catechists share with their students some of the stories about Mary from the Bible (reading them or paraphrasing them), and then they hand out the May Prayer Table Kits, encouraging youngsters to take the kit home and create a small prayer area devoted to Mary during the month of May. —A. T., Minneapolis, MN
