Here is our family’s liturgical board printable for the month of AUGUST complete with a FREE printable of those SAME Catholic hymns contained therein + singing tips for your family to learn and sing!
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Have you seen my previous blog post?
In it I gave you the inside details on how our family’s liturgical board came about, through a very serendipitous (and providential) sequence of events.
Our family’s liturgical board has definitely morphed from a lot of things, and will probably continue morphing as I figure out better ways of displaying and decorating this little bulletin board.
Liturgical Board Printable, anyone?
After looking around for other Catholic liturgical board printables to purchase, I decided that I would go ahead and make my own which would include all the things I wanted – a Bible verse, an important prayer to learn, an ejaculatory prayer, a virtue of the month, our Baltimore catechism reading plan, and our monthly choir hymns.
Too much? Good, I didn’t think so 🙂
It’s actually been super simple for my children 6 and under to memorize, even my 2.5 year old remembers the prayers!
My liturgical printable is now live on Etsy for purchase! And it’s extremely affordable for all the work I’ve put in gathering all this information 🙂
Prayers for your Catholic Liturgical Board
Two things I had wanted our liturgical board to place on emphasis on was 1) prayer and 2) catechesis.
As a convert to traditional Catholicism myself, I had wanted to learn side by side with my children the beautiful prayers contained in the heritage of our Catholic faith.
I also realized I needed to include our children’s Baltimore catechism reading plan as well as my own.
After figuring out which prayers fit the month’s traditional dedications, I found beautiful prayers which I know your family will love!
And if your family knows them already, I challenge you to learn them in Latin!
And if you know them in Latin, well, then pray MORE of those prayers this month! 🙂
Beauty, or practicality?
My current conundrum has been whether or not to individually cut out the items on the printable.
I realized the only reason I cut up the printable was so that I could fit in my liturgical calendar (not included in my printable, I got it from traditio.com whose views I DO NOT endorse but still happily use their calendars!).
I realized quite late that my liturgical calendar could easily be placed in another area of our house!
And after wasting a good 2 hours cutting and fastening pushpins to each item for the SECOND month in a row, I’m throwing in the towel for next month and just pasting the entire printable on my bulletin board…
The information is still displayed very beautifully if the printable is not cut up, and those are two hours of my life I sadly will not get back 🙁 iykyk!
Now that you’ve learned from my time-wasting mistakes, here are some questions I received from last month which I hoped to answer!
Why only some feast days and not others?
My brain gets easily overwhelmed if I see a bunch of dates on a board, so I wanted to display the MOST IMPORTANT feast days of the month according to their official liturgical rank given in the Roman calendar (check your missal). These feast days are taken from the pre-1955 Missale Romanum.
What is the “Mass” for the month?
So there is a collection of official “chants” which the Catholic Church uses for the Latin Mass (TLM, Tridentine Mass, take your pick of names but they all mean the same thing) which go along with the “propers” and the “ordinary” of the Mass. If you don’t know what that is:
The propers consist of: Introit, Gradual, Alleluia (or Tract during Lent), Offertory, and Communion antiphons.
The ordinary consists of: Kyrie, Gloria (omitted during Lent and Advent), Sanctus and Agnus Dei.
Over the centuries the collection of official chants the Catholic Church would use for the ordinary of the Mass came to be known as the Kyriale. It was separated into each set or “Mass”, containing 18 different sets of music or “Masses” for the same text of the ordinary – Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei.
So to sum up – the Church has 18 different Kyries in Gregorian chant! And the same for the Sanctus, Agnus Dei…but not for the Gloria as some “Masses” from the Kyriale are for Lent/Advent which omit the Gloria.
The “Mass” which I chose for August is Mass XI, also known as “Orbis factor”.
Why Latin, English, and Spanish hymns for your liturgical board?
That one is easy – our family is bilingual, Spanish and English. My mother was born in Mexico and my grandmother lived with us growing up so I place a very high importance on transmitting that language to my children!
I found that so many places in the US have a dire need for beautiful traditional Catholic Spanish hymns so I was able to source this beautiful traditional hymnal “Cantos Sagrados Populares”, gifted to me by a priest of the SSPX…from Mexico!! That was incredibly generous.
I wanted to pay it forward and share that gift with others as I know I’m not the only one with this dilemma, many of my Catholic friends have asked for this!
So there you have it, I hope your family benefits from using this liturgical board printable, again you can find it here!
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