Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
My friend Nancy at Do Small Things with Love has created 36 Catholic Saint Cross Stitch patterns and has invited a troop of crafty kids to make them…including my 9 year old Bridget!
In advance of our road trip to #worldmeetingoffamilies, I printed off the St Thérèse Cross Stitch pattern from Nancy’s site and made my own travel kit for Bridget to get started on, in the van.
Not sure if you heard! The Secret Service closed down the #WorldMeetingofFamilies Expo a DAY EARLY for the safety of Pope Francis! We’re happy to take a hit for the Holy Father, but we are hearing from sad #WMOF attendees who were planning to return to our booth on Friday to purchase our Catholic books, craft kits and quizzing cards!
A year ago, I was in ROME on the Feast Day of St Padre Pio!
In addition to all the extraordinary things I saw and experienced on my pilgrimage, I did something I’ve never done before while travelling! I extended my trip for 3 extra days…and changed my return plane ticket on the fly! Those three extra days enabled me to join Mike and Sue and Katherine of St Gemma’s Catholic Pilgrimages (www.takeapilgrimage.com) and take an extra pilgrimage to San Rotundo to see St Padre Pio!
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of our NEW Super Saints decks…and GUESS WHAT?!?
They arrived a WEEK EARLY…well in advance of the World Meeting of Families which we leave for this weekend!
Over at Equipping Catholic Families, we have created a number of Catholic Printables to make your family patron saint days memorable! All of our craft kits come with permission to copy and we’ve found that laminating the printed templates make them last year after year.
Excerpts from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families , various posts at Equipping Catholic Families and our Saint Scripts Craft Kits (Series ONE and TWO).
Happy Birthday Mother Mary!
There are a lot of ways to celebrate Mother Mary’s birth; the most obvious is probably a birthday cake! In A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families we recommend an All-White Dinner reminding us that Mary was born without sin! I collected a bunch of pins on Pinterest, searching Birth of Mary, birthday cakes and white food… At Equipping Catholic Families, we have created a number of dolls and figures for Mother Mary. Check out: Egg Carton Mary and Mary TY Doll and our Wooden Painted Saint: Mother Mary! Check out our Wooden Painted Saint Tutorial An Alphabet of Mary is a sweet book with little poems, explanations and illustrations of the titles and qualities of Mother Mary. Check out current Specials at Catholic Artworks!
We’ve been renovating and expanding! We have decided to set up a satellite store for Arma Dei…right here at Equipping Catholic Families for our paper products!
Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families by Monica McConkey
$12US + shipping* Sorry! currently out of stock!
40 (5½” x4½”) Color Postcards with brief Saint biographies and Saint stats and beautifully illustrated with the Kelly SaintsTM
Preprinted postcards are formatted from our Saints Series One and Saints Series Two Cathletics Craft Kits.
Blessed Teresa is known for her virtue of compassion and for being the “icon of the Good Samaritan”, caring for the sick and the poor in India. She models for us the Scriptural Works of Mercy…meeting both the Corporal and Spiritual needs of each person she encountered.
Here’s what Catholic Families are saying about the Super Saints Craft Kit with all 54 Super Saints cards formatted to print and play with right away!
Jen at Faith and Fabric recommends printing 2 decks of Super Saints cards to play Memory and Go Fish! She also recommends playing Old Maid and Order Sorting with the deck of 54 cards.
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