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Basics:

The Prayers all Catholics Must Know, in English and Latin (5 pages)
How to Pray the Rosary, with Prayers in English (1 page)
How to Pray the Rosary, with Prayers in Latin (1 page)
Enthronement of the Sacred Heart Ceremony (8 pages)
Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (Montfort) (1 page)
The story of Blessed Imelda Lambertini for First Communicants (4 pages)

The 6 Approved Litanies:
Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1 page):  English  Latin
Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus (2 pages):  English  Latin
Litany of the Precious Blood of Jesus (1 page):  English  Latin
Litany of the Saints (3 pages):  English  Latin
Litany of Loreto (2 pages):  English  Latin
Litany of St. Joseph (1 page):  English  Latin

Advent/Christmastide:

Advent Wreath Scripture and Blessings (5 pages)
O Antiphons and Magnificat in English and Latin (2 pages)
The Nativity story according to St. Luke, Douay-Rheims version (1 page)
Hymns on the Nativity Excerpts of St. Ephraem's Nativity Hymns (d. A.D. 373) (4 pages)
Blessing of the Home on the Feast of the Epiphany (1 page)
St. Ephraem's Hymn XV on the Epiphany (5 pages) can be read as a 5-character play (5 pages)
Excerpts from Pope Leo the Great's Sermons on the Epiphany (8 pages)
Lyrics to 45 Hymns, Carols, and Secular Songs for Advent and Christmastide (25 pges)

Christmas Stories to tell your Children: See Customs of Christmas
When the Animals Talk, by Rusty Calhoun (1 page)
Why the Evergreen Trees Never Lose their Leaves, by Florence Holbrook (2 pages)
The Christmas Truce (2 pages)
A Christmas Carol (1 page) by G. K. Chesterton
The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen (2 pages)
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry (5 pages)

Lent:

Ash Wedneday: Meditation on Death from "The Imitation of Christ," by Thomas á Kempis (2 pages)
The Stations of the Cross with meditations by St. Alphonsus Liguori and Stabat Mater stanzas (16 pages)
The 7 Penitential Psalms in English (Douay-Rheims) and Latin (Vulgate) with Antiphons (10 pages)
Litany of the Passion, by John Henry Cardinal Newman (for private use) (2 pages)

Easter:

Easter Sermon by St. John Chrysostom (2 pages)
Easter Poem by St. Venantius Fortunatus (2 pages)

All Hallow's Eve:

Stories to tell your Children on Hallowe'en: See Customs of All Hallows' Eve
Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley (2 pages)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (3 pages)
The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats (2 pages)
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow (3 pages)
The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs (11 pages)
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (5 pages)
The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (4 pages)
The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe (7 pages)
The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe (5 pages)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving (22 pages)

All Hallows Day:

On All Saints, by St. Gregory Thamaturgus (2 pages)

Family stuff:

The Guess Me Game (1 page answer sheet for 1 person)
One person is "It" per round. "It" writes down his answers to the questions below; the other players write down the answers as they think "It" would answer them. Whoever guesses "It's" answers correctly most often (just add up the correct answers) is the winner of that game. In a clockwise direction, the next person then becomes "It" and the other players have to guess how he'd respond to the questions below. If "It" has more than 1 answer to a particular question, and all are equally true, write them all down up to 5 answers. If any of the questions aren't relevant for your family, just skip them. You need nothing but pens or pencils, and copies of these answer sheets (# answer sheets needed = No. of players X No. of players). If you download both this and the "Questions for Discussion" below, start with this because some of the game questions would be answered in the "Questions for Discussion" discussions.

Questions for Discussion (12 pages)
Pages of questions, in the manner of the books "If" and "The Book of Questions," designed to provoke conversation and help people to learn about one another. With this version, though, you don't have to worry about some of the risqué and immoral questions that turn up in the aforementioned books...

Stories to tell your Children:
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (4 pages)

 
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