SEPTEMBER 2025

As part of the Jubilee Year of Hope, Pope Leo will canonize Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on September 7. These two young men from northern Italy lived nearly a century apart, but they were united in their love for the Lord and devotion to the Eucharist. You can learn more about them below. You can also pray for them, and ask them for their prayers for your and your special intentions. 

Connie Clark, 

Editor

The Living Faith Kids Calendar is perfect for helping children learn about the Church seasons and explore their faith. Our monthly calendar lists feast days, a word of the month and simple questions to help children pay attention to the Sunday Gospel.

September 7 - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

What small sacrifice can you make today for Jesus, as you remember his great sacrifice for you? 

Consider the plans you made for resting today. Is there anything your family could realistically sacrifice in order to do that?

September 14 - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

I'm positive that if I'd been there, I would have been cranky and hard to get along with. 

Help your child make today's first reading (Numbers 21:4b-9) personal by talking about any long journeys your family has taken together. Who got cranky? Who complained? Most likely everyone did at some point. Ask: Who was Moses for us, reminding us that God is good? How did they do it? How might this help us next time we travel?

September 21 - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

If you notice yourself telling small lies, ask yourself: Do I want to be good, or do I want to seem good? Click here!

September 28 - Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Is there someone you might not have noticed before who is suffering? Click here!

Looking for a tool to deepen faith and inspire daily growth?

The Daily Walk + Talk is your go-to resource for meaningful faith conversations and activities at home, in classrooms, or parish settings. Designed to engage kids with reflections on the daily Mass readings, it offers simple questions, prompts, and activities to spark dialogue and enrich understanding. Download it today!

Our first millennial-aged saint, Carlo Acutis loved soccer and gaming. But more than anything, he loved the Eucharist, calling it "my highway to heaven." After being diagnosed with leukemia, the teenager used his computer skills to create a virtual museum website of Eucharistic miracles. Carlo believed that the Eucharist helped us become more like Jesus and that it was a taste of heaven on earth. He died at age 15.

Pier Giorgio Frassati loved mountain climbing and goofing around with friends. When his friends began going their separate ways to college, he wanted to stay in touch, so he created a little group he called the Tipi Loschi Society. That's Italian for swindlers or "shady characters." The name was kind of a joke because Pier Giorgio often invited his friends to daily Mass and was always willing to share whatever he had with anyone in need. Pier Giorgio came down with polio in his early twenties, but even in his last moments, he helped get medicine to a poor man he had been caring for. 

Praying for Our Newest Saints

Father, who has given us the ardent testimony of the young Saint Carlo Acutis, who made the Eucharist the core of his life and the strength of his daily commitments so that everybody may love you above all else, let him be counted among the Saints in your Church. Confirm my faith, nurture my hope, strengthen my charity, in the image of young Carlo who, growing in these virtues, now lives with you. Grant me the grace that I need. Amen.

Saint Pier Giorgio, teach me by your example of mercy to open my heart more widely to those in need, especially the poor and the sick. Guide me in extending that mercy both to friends and strangers, to those who love me and those who do not. Help me to reflect God’s own mercy, especially in words and deeds of forgiveness. Amen.

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