Pictured to the left is the real Maria von Trapp
. . . . . . as in
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music!
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 the blog, http://vontrapp.wordpress.com/ you will find selections from Maria’s book in accordance with the current liturgical feasts and seasons. They also excerpt from her other books when appropriate to the liturgical season.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam!
3 comments:
Great resource! Thanks so much for sharing. :)
Glad you liked Around the Year with the Trapp Family!
I am glad I found your blog - I am really enjoying it. I am a Tightwad Gazette Gal from waaaay back :-)
We love this book and have used it to help form many of our liturgical year traditions ~ especially surrounding Holy Week and Easter. We have followed their example in blessing the four corners of our property with blessed palms and holy water, too. This is truly a wonderful, wonderful resource. They are an inspiring family.
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