Enjoy Celebrating the Queenship of Mary

The Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary is August 22. 

This year, we won't be celebrating with a party with friends as we did last year, but I have been enjoying looking back at snapshots from that celebration and thought I would share some of them as inspiration for you to celebrate the Queenshp of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the children in your life.

If you like celebrating with easy eats any blue, red, and white foods can be symbolic of Mary.

Blue is a traditional color of royalty and also symbolic of heaven and the sky Red symbolizes Mary's love passion, devotion, and sacrifice. And, white symbolizes Mama Mary's purity. With these colors and the summer season in mins strawberries, blueberries, cherries, and/or raspberries with whipped cream, yogurt, nice cream, or ice cream, are a wonderful idea!

Cherry tomatoes - also in season - can be an easy addition to your feast table, too.

Watermelon crowns can also be easy and succulent for this summertime feast day celebration.

If you have littles, you might enjoy a fun little Marian Queenship song and game to the tune of Ring Around the Rosary from a cute little book called Joyful Noises.

If you prefer celebrating through play, you might play a version of Queenie, Queenie, Whose Got the Ball in a pool or in the yard. We adapted the rhyme to this:

Queenie, Queenie, who has the ball?
Someone big or someone small?
We know Jesus loves us all.

For more detailed ideas and links, see the post I shared last year when planning our party as well as an older post about an impromptu liturgical teatime.

Enjoy your feast day!

Mary, Queen of Heaven, pray for us.

O God, who made the Mother of your Son
to be our Mother and our Queen,
graciously grant that, sustained by her intercession,
we may attain in the heavenly Kingdom
the glory promised to your children.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
~The Collect