Preparing for OCTOBER Saints and Feast Days

October is filled with many days for celebrating feasts and Saints.  Of course, we'll cebrate St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, and HERE is that post.


Some other October Saints and feast days we'll be celebrating:


Guardian Angel -- October 2

The prayer and coloring pages are here  and here. 

Angel of God

my Guardian dear

To whom God's love commits me here

Ever this day be at my side

To light and guard,

To rule and guide.  Amen

Also check out HERE for an Angel dot to dot page.

St. Francis of Assisi -- October 4

Coloring page of St. Francis from Faith Keepers which I bought through Soft Saints, here. Coloring page of Saint Francis from Coloring Saints, here. Coloring pages of deer here, wolf here, and bird here.

Two more beautifully detailed coloring pages HERE. 
The prayer I chose is the one St. Francis prayed before the San Damiano cross:

Most High, Glorious God.

Cast your light into the darkness of my heart.

Give me right faith, firm hope, perfect charity and profound humility,

with wisdom and perception, O Lord, so that I may do

what is truly your holy will.

Amen

Our Lady of the Rosary -- October 7

The coloring page hand drawn by Vee at Paper Dali is here. The second coloring page of Mary is here.  The coloring page of the Rosary is here. I chose the Hail Mary prayer for this folder.

Hail Mary, full of grace

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women

and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God

Pray for us sinners

Now and at the hour of our death.

Amen

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque  -- October 16

She is known as the Saint of the Sacred Heart.
Read about this saint here and here.

Two coloring pages are from the Faith Keepers CD, here.  One coloring page of St. Margaret Mary is from Waltzing Matilda HERE.  Another one from City Wife Country Life HERE

I chose two prayers.  This first one I adapted from a longer prayer, to be age-appropriate for my daughter.

Jesus said to Margaret Mary:

"Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing … .”
Dear Jesus, I don’t want to be a lukewarm heart.
I want your love to burn bright in my heart.
                         
                              ----- 

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified,
loved, and preserved throughout the world,
now and forever. Amen.
Sacred Heasrt of Jesus, pray for us.
Holy Mary, mother of Jesus, pray for us.
Saint Jude, help for the hopeless pray for us.
St. Jude, worker of miracles pray for us.


St. Margaret Mary was a Visitation nun and the first person to begin the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart.  The fifth-born child of a French family, Margaret discovered a gift for mystical prayer, which led her to enter the Visitation monastery.
From the time she was 20, Margaret experienced visions of Christ. In a series of revelations, Christ mourned the world’s indifference and charged her to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart.
Margaret responded with alacrity. She instituted the Feast of the Sacred Heart as well as a devotion known as the Nine Fridays. Devotion to the Sacred Heart flourished under her example, infusing Visitation convents far and wide.

Her emphasis on the Sacred Heart made her a natural for Visitation, along with her simple, grounded philosophy. “Accept with a good heart what Our Lord shows you to be applicable to yourself and do not bother about the rest,” she said.

Pope John Paul II has commended her extraordinary attentiveness. “Let us give thanks for the mystical experience of St. Margaret Mary,” he once said. “She had been given a remarkable calling, but in a hidden life, to know the power and beauty of the love of Christ.”

St. Jude -- October 28

Oh I do love Saint Jude.  He has helped me through many "desperate cases," and "things despaired of."   I will enjoy reading up on St. Jude's biography before we celebrate his feast day, to refresh my memory on his holy life.

Coloring page from FaithKeepers CD HERE, and another one (not pictured) from City Wife Country Life HERE.  Although I love St. Jude's novena, I chose this prayer, as more age-appropriate for my 3-year old:

St. Jude, help for the hopeless, pray for us.

Saint Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us.

Do you want to join in and create a liturgical folder to celebrate a Saint or other feast day? Use the ones I've used, or check out Xhonane's folders at Familia Catolica, here. Or create your own. I'd love to see them.



UPDATED TO ADD:  Click on HERE to see a listing, in order, of all the Saints and Feast Day folders for the liturgical year, or check out the top right of my sidebar and click on the picture of the Archangels folder.