St. Lucy’s Berry Thumbprint Eyes Cookies – Advent Recipe Set Preview

When our family began living according to the liturgical year over 15 years ago, after a foundation of prayer, we turned to incorporating traditionally associated foods into our holy day commemorations. And through the years the rich, spice-filled recipes of Advent have become some our family’s favorites.

With a family big or small, in the Lord’s providence, there will always be another meal coming. This is why our family’s philosophy, whenever possible, has been to use these opportunities to make fare that feeds our family’s faith as well as fills their bellies.

Through the years our family has gathered a raccolta of recipes: tried and true dishes, as well as the shortcuts we have used during busier seasons of life – like after a new baby is born. Some recipes are historical foods long associated with specific feasts and saints, or the cuisine of the places from which certain saints hail, while others are the silly food puns our children and I have come up with over the years. We’ve found that the later can often be the most memorable. You can print and add these recipe sheets to your recipe binder to use again and again. And we pray they will all be a nourishment to your family both in body and soul.

Your family may also be blessed by our:

• St. Nicholas Coins
• St. Nicholas Pickle
• Family Nativity Play: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
• December Ordo of Liturgical Living Activities & Meal Plan 
• December Prayers Prints
• Meal Time Prayers Prints

You can also find this printable and all the other resources, help, and encouragement you need for living liturgically every month by joining our Feast + Fast + Feria Collective here.

“For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.” – Ecclesiastes 3:13 

Ad majórem Dei glóriam,