All Saints Day & Living the Church calendar in Oct., part 2

We will be celebrating the Feast of All Saints a day late, on the Feast of All Souls, with our Catholic homeschool group and a party.  We are excited because it has been a couple years since we dressed up & really celebrated All Saints in style.  All the kids intend to dress up as their patrons: St. Jude, Bl. Pope JPII, St. Mark, and the Blessed Mother Mary.  (We decided for Mary, that is that she would follow the theme. :) )  This will be after they dress up for Halloween as a convict, an Indian, a lion, & a pumpkin princess, respectively.  I'll try to post pics of both sets of costumes.

In the meantime, here's a sweet prayer our DRE used in the RCIC class for All Saints:

The saints were really amazing, God;
their love for you was great.
They prayed and preached and spread your word,
even when faced with hate.
Helping, sharing, spreading grace,
they'd give their last dime.
Now they're blessed with the joy of heaven
until the end of time.

But the saints were still just people, too;
they sometimes did things wrong.
They doubted, worried, and sinned at times,
and didn't always get along.
So maybe there's still hope for me,
to be a named saint, too.
Lord give me strength to try again,
so I can live with you.

Amen.

from Catholic Prayer Book for Children, edited by Julianne M. Will