Hello and happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! Today, I thought I'd share some of our feast day celebrations.
Brief History:
In December of 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, an Aztec Indian. The apparition occurred on Tepeyac Hill, where the words of Our Lady were spoken to Juan Diego. She desired a church to built in honor of her. However, when Juan Diego spoke to the bishop, he was skeptical of the apparition and wanted a true sign. After several tries, Our Lady instructed Juan Diego to go to the top of the hill and cut flowers. It was December, but there he found Castilian roses and cut them. Then, Our Lady arranged them with her own hands. This was the sign needed for the bishop to believe Juan Diego because Our Lady's image appeared on Juan Diego's tilma.
Baking:
To start the day off, we made Juan Diego cookies! I found this idea at thecatholicplayground. Instead of using their recipe for the actual cookies, we used a gluten free sugar cookie recipe (found here). We also discovered that these cookies work with only 1 1/2 cups of flour since someone I didn't read the recipe correctly, and forgot to put another cup of flour in. They tasted great, though! We also used coconut sugar in place of white sugar. Lastly, we just decorated the cookies with some homemade red frosting, since we didn't have any icing on hand. We all enjoyed eating the cookies and it was a great project. I encourage you to go take a look at thecatholicplayground's version too. Now for some pictures:
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Little helpers, Nancy (8) and Superman (10), making the dough
The dough got very sticky and it wasn't as easy as the recipe made it look
Ta-da! They still turned out, even with the sticky dough
The middle holes got a bit small for Juan Diego (the egg) to fit inside the sombrero (cookie)
Inside each Juan Diego (egg), there was a tilma with Our Lady's image and roses (M&M's) |
Coloring:
Coloring coloring pages is one of the easiest ways to celebrate a feast day. We use thecatholicplayground's collection most of the time, as they have a very large collection and variety. Two of my brothers, Superman and Alphonse, enjoyed coloring both of the Our Lady of Guadalupe coloring pages made by thecatholicplayground.
There is an Our Lady of Guadalupe stained glass project here, Our Lady of Guadalupe stationery paper here, and an Our Lady of Guadalupe activity sheet here.  |
| Superman's finished coloring page (found here) |
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| Alphonse started but didn't quite finish (found here) |
Movie:
While we waited for the cookies to cool off, we watched our favorite movie about Saint Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe: "Juan Diego Messenger of Guadalupe" from CCC. Even though I've seen this one plenty of times, I still enjoy watching it.
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| Our copy of Juan Diego Messenger of Guadalupe |
"Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry youn, disturb you." -Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego
How did you celebrate today's feast day? Do you have any special or yearly traditions for this feast?
Ooh, Juan Diego cookies! That's really fun! My family always makes paper roses and adds them to our Jesse tree for Our Lady of Guadalupe. :)
ReplyDeleteMaking paper roses sounds fun too! We have a felt Jesse tree and add felt symbols to them each day, after reading the Bible story.
DeleteAll of these activities sound so fun! I especially love the idea of the cookies. I need to try those next year. I didn't do anything this year, because I'm terrible at planning, but last year I attended a ceremony at our church which was really fun because it was all in Spanish!
ReplyDeleteI like to try to plan things far in advance and then forget about it, so I know how it is to not be good at planning. I decided to make these the night before, as we had most of the supplies on hand.
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