Rekindling Joy: More on Family Feast Days
Bringing celebration to family life without adding stress
Dear Friends,
A few months back, I wrote a substack essay on bringing more joy to family life by celebrating more “Family Feast Days:” name days, the first day of spring, etc. The key is to celebrate them in very minor, easy, no-stress ways! We are not talking about adding more work, but instead adding more joy and appreciation in the midst of diapers, homework, chores, and all the rest.
For those who are interested in some expanded ideas or are new to the Hollow, you may enjoy reading the newer version of this essay at Radiant Magazine today:
“Rekindle Joy Throughout the Year with Family Feast Days”
Have you tried implementing any of these ideas?
How do you like to celebrate?
How might we apply some of these ideas to the Easter season?
Enjoy!
love the idea of family feast days. We host family often (constantly lol) but we've really wanted to sort of turn some of those gatherings into something more, like low-key rituals. So this is really great.
I appreciate the balance you strike between the ideals of rich feasts, full of traditions, with celebrations that are easier to execute. We're Anglican (ACNA), not Catholic, but still delight in the cycle of the Church calendar. For our family feast days--including many of the saints we just love, but who often don't have specific traditions we link with them (St. Leoba, St. Margaret of Scotland, and many others), my default is cake. Any kind of cake, without any special decoration.