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Rosary Patch Program Marian Series Introduction Like the Pope John Paul II Rosaryprogram, this Patch is excellent Program for anyone to get started in earning religious emblems, or in cases where Introductiona Scout has to wait until he is eligible to earn his next emblem. All youth and adults—Scouts or non-Scouts, Catholic or non-Catholic, male or female—are welcome to participate in this activity. All of these activities may be used by groups, families, schools, or any Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Venturer, Girl Scout, American Heritage Girl, or Campfire USA. Most questions are well suited for discussion around a kitchen table with family, or a small group. The questions are in three age groups and well suited for any youth or adult. Each patch may be earned in one session or shorter sessions over a longer period, and may be earned in any sequence, with no time requirement between patches. Participants may enjoy this program with friends or family, while learning about the Mariam feasts and their faith. Immaculate Our Lady of Our Lady Lourdes Our Lady of the Our Lady of Conception Guadalupe Miraculous Medal Sorrows More activities will be added after 6/1/2015 Each January, the Scout Day with the Bishop’s Printed Program will list the persons who complete any of these activities and order patches by the first Saturday in December. Marian Series Immaculate Conception Activity Requirements Requirements for Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Activity All – Read about Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. 1st thru 5th Grades - Complete three requirements & two activities. 6th thru 12th Grades - Complete four requirements & three activities. Requirements: 1. Who was Mary’s mother? 2. What event is commemorated by the feast of the Immaculate Conception? 3. On what day is the feast day of the Immaculate Conception? Is it a Holy Day of Obligation? 4. Which Pope proclaimed the dogma regarding Mary as the Immaculate Conception? In what year? 5. In what words did Mary announce herself when she appeared to St. Bernadette at Lourdes in 1858? Activities: 1. Draw a picture of Mary, the Immaculate Conception. Incorporate one or more Marian symbols in your picture. Share this picture with your family and friends. 2. Pray the Magnificat and the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. 3. Visit or take a virtual tour of the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, America's patronal church. 4. Create paper lilies or roses to be displayed in your home for feasts of Mary. With your parents' help, find flower-making directions on the Internet. 5. Plant a portable “Mary Garden”. Plant it in a large flower pot. Plant all one color, or one of each color: white, blue, violet and gold flowers to represent the Luminous, Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries. Give the Mary Garden as a gift to someone to enjoy. Requirements for Adults: 1. Assist the youth with this Marian activity. 2. Share your thoughts with the youth about Mary our Mother under the title of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. 3. Review the responses to the requirements of each youth participant to assure accuracy and understanding. 4. Fill out and mail the Activity Order Form with your check and list of participant data. For more information about this Marian feast, check The answers to the requirements may be out the websites below: found on: www.Catholic.org; www.catholicism.about.com; www.cdeducation.org/oym/scouts.htm www.ewtn.com Marian Series Our Lady of Guadalupe Activity Requirements Requirements for Our Lady of Guadalupe Activity All – Read about Our Lady of Guadalupe. 1st thru 5th Grades - Complete three requirements & two activities. 6th thru 12th Grades - Complete four requirements & three activities. Requirements: 1. In 1531 miracles began to happen. Who appeared to humble Juan Diego? 2. When is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe? 3. Fill in the blank: Our Lady of Guadalupe is Patroness of the __________________. 4. What three miraculous signs convinced the Mexican people that the Catholic faith was true? 5. What was God’s purpose in choosing Mary to appear to Juan? Activities: 1. Draw a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe and share this picture with your family and friends. 2. Attend a Spanish-speaking Mass and interview some of those who attend regularly about what Our Lady of Guadalupe means to them. 3. Within a short time, six million native Mexicans were baptized as Catholics because of what they witnessed and heard about Our Lady of Guadalupe. Attend a Baptism. What does Baptism do? Why is it important to be baptized? (See Catechism of the Catholic Church #1213) 4. Create a poster showing the three miracles that happened to Juan Diego. Display this poster in your home or community for all to see. Requirements for Adults: 1. Assist the youth with this Marian activity. 2. Share your thoughts with the youth about Mary our Mother under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 3. Review the responses to the requirements of each youth participant to assure accuracy and understanding. 4. Fill out and mail the Activity Order Form with your check and list of participant data. For more information about this Marian feast, check The answers to the requirements may be out the websites below: found on: www.Catholic.org; www.americancatholic.org; www.cdeducation.org/oym/scouts.htm www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints; and www.newadvent.org Marian Series Our Lady of Lourdes Activity Requirements Requirements for the Our Lady of Lourdes Activity All – Read about St. Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes. 1st thru 5th Grades - Complete three requirements & two activities. 6th thru 12th Grades - Complete four requirements & three activities. Requirements: 1. In 1858, Mary appeared to a young girl in the little French village of Lourdes. At the time, Bernadette and the Soubirous family were living at the Cachot. What had the Cachot been used for previously? What struggles did Bernadette have in her life? 2. How many times did Mary appear to Bernadette? Who did she tell her she was and why was that important? 3. What are the feast days of Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette? 4. Many people make “pilgrimages” to the Grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes? What is a “pilgrimage?” What is so special about that place and what miraculous things have happened there? 5. What is the “Dogma of the Immaculate Conception?” In what year and by which pope was it proclaimed? Activities: 1. Draw or color a picture of Our Lady of Lourdes and share this picture with your family and friends. 2. Locate Lourdes on a map of France. With parental permission, visit this website to take a “virtual tour” of the grotto where Mary appeared to St. Bernadette: www.360cities.net/image/grotto-our- ladylourdesfrance?utm_campaign=clickback&utm_medium=link_preview_gadget&utm_sourc e=facebook.com#762.89,-8.85,18.6 3. Find a prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes (or write your own) and say it for someone who is sick and needs healing. 4. Rent/borrow a movie about St. Bernadette to watch it with your family or friends. Requirements for Adults: 1. Assist the youth with this Marian activity. 2. Share your thoughts with the youth about Mary our Mother under the title of Our Lady Lourdes. 3. Review the responses to the requirements of each youth participant to assure accuracy and understanding. 4. Fill out and mail the Activity Order Form with your check and list of participant data. For more information about this Marian feast, check The answers to the requirements may be found out the websites below: on: www.Catholic.org; www.americanctholic.org www.cdeducation.org/oym/scouts.htm Marian Series Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Activity Requirements Requirements for the Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Activity All – Read about St. Catherine Laboure and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. 1st thru 5th Grades - Complete three requirements & two activities. 6th thru 12th Grades - Complete four requirements & three activities. Requirements: 1. In 1830, Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure of the Daughters of Charity. Where did she appear to her? What did she look like? What did she ask her to do? 2. After an investigation of the apparitions, the “Medal of the Immaculate Conception” was made and given to the people of Paris, who were sick with cholera. What happened? 3. What are the feast days of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and St. Catherine Laboure? 4. Who was Alphonse Ratisbonne and why is he important in the history of the Miraculous Medal? 5. Several other saints have a connection to St. Catherine and the Miraculous Medal: St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. Josemaria Escriva. Research at least one of them. Activities: 1. Find a picture of the Miraculous Medal (www.cammonline.org/images/uploads/pdfs/MM_Suggested_Activities.pdf) and learn the meaning of the symbols on the front and back. Share this with your family and friends. 2. Memorize the words on the front of the medal, “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” Discuss these words with your family and friends. What important Catholic teaching about Mary do these words support? 3. Wearing a Miraculous Medal is the second most popular Catholic Marian devotion. What is the most popular? Interview someone who wears a Miraculous Medal regularly and find out what it means to him or her. 4. Wearing a Miraculous Medal is the second most popular Catholic Marian devotion. What is the most popular? Interview someone who wears a Miraculous Medal regularly and find out what it means to him or her.
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