What a great project idea!

Ten years ago, when we still have five children, we visited Stowe, Vermont, where the real Sound of Music family settled. We were deeply impressed by the profound Catholicism of Maria Von Trapp.

I learned from Love2Learn Blog today about this new blog project: sections of Maria Von Trapp's book "Around the Year with the Trapp Family" are being posted there, according to the liturgical year. It is a simple, beautiful blog, and worth a visit! From the blog:

In 1955, Maria Augusta Trapp—the real Maria portrayed in The Sound of Music—wrote a book celebrating the customs and seasons of the Catholic Church’s liturgical year. Such customs, she wrote, are “an expression of a deeply Catholic feeling, and they have grown out of times and from people who found it natural to carry over their beliefs into the forms of everyday life.”

Her aim in writing was to help “make Catholic home life more warm and expressive of our religion, and above all [to] bring children and parents closer together.”

Unfortunately, Around the Year with the Trapp Family is no longer in print, and copies are expensive and hard to find. The entire text is available in document form at EWTN’s library.

In this blog, we will bring you selections from Maria’s book in accordance with the current liturgical feasts and seasons. We will also excerpt from her other books when appropriate to the liturgical season. We encourage you to share your own faith-filled customs in the comments sections of each post.

Ad majorem Dei gloriam!