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A fun way to teach kids the new Mass! Countdown is on!

November 6, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

My Countdown

Looking for a fun way
to teach kids the new Mass?

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!

Cathletics Craft Kit TM

Monica McConkey (Author)

Look inside Color Me Catholic

Check out the **NEW**VIDEO**
Color Me Catholic Tutorial

Filed Under: Catholic Crafts

Easy, Affordable and AWESOME Widgets & Services for Newbie Bloggers: Lists of Links (5)

November 5, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

(1) inlinkz Link Tool
$19.99/year for thumbnail linkies: text linkies are FREE….but thumbnail linkies are way more interesting!

(2) Grab my button Generator FREE and easy to use! I tried generating my own, following other tutorials, but this is so easy! I do love designing buttons and I like to share them.
(3) e-Junkie pdf manager $5/month to sell pdfs online. I was trying payloadz, but it costs quite a bit more

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Catholic Conferences: List of Links (4)

November 2, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Please note: this is a work in progress!

I am gradually adding as many conferences as possible within the different linkies. Please be patient…we’re on the 4th sick kid in the family…in a week. Feel free to speed up the process and add some conference links! Don’t worry if you can’t add the thumbnail images…I will try to add them later.

Voting for your favorite conferences
will begin in a few days!
(I hope to have all the conferences added by then!)

(1) for Catholics

(2) for Religious Educators

Filed Under: Catholic conferences

Cool Stuff about Catholic Conferences

November 2, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

(1) Cool Catholic Stuff! Over the years we have collected many treasures at Catholic Conferences. It’s so wonderful to see what cool Catholic stuff is out there! (2) Familiar Faces (and voices!) It was so nice to see Lisa Hendey again (and hear her familiar voice from Catholic Moments!) and to flip through her new book A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms (3) New Friends! We met lots of DREs and teachers and principals and signed up many new friends to our mailing list…and even a couple for our school fundraising program! We hope they drop by soon to EquippingCatholicFamilies.com! Please subscribe to EquippingCatholicFamilies, say hello in the comments…or “like” us on facebook! We will announce our next product winners shortly! (4) Great Talks! OK…we heard they were very good… but unfortunately we could not attend them because we were busy at the Arma Dei booth.

(5) Cool Places to see!

Filed Under: Catholic conferences

Links of LightBulbs (3)

October 26, 2011 by Monica McConkey 4 Comments

All Saints Party Links!

Please refer me to your own favorite All Saints post in the comments or join the Cele-LINKY with the SAINTS (1)

(1) Cele-LINKY with the SAINTS from Equipping Catholic Families
(2) All Saints Day Games and Party from Faith and Family Connections
(3) All Saints Day Resources: Games and Printables from That Resource Site
(4) All Saints Printables from Catholic Icing
(5) All Saints Costumes for Boys from Catholic Icing
(6) All Saints Costumes for Girls from Catholic Icing
(7) All Saints Costumes from Catholic Missionary Family
(8) All Saints Day Party Games from Catholic Icing
(9) All Saints Costumes and Games from Faith & Family (there’s even a plug for my book here…but the email address reflects the article is from 2008!)
(10) All Saints Day Party from Paper Dali
(11) All Saints Party Games from Memories of a Catholic Wife and Mother
(12) Saint Parade from Raising Little Saints
(13) All Saints Party Decorations by Under Her Starry Mantle
(14) All Saints Party Food from Catholic Icing
(15) All Saints Costumes from Family at the Foot of the Cross
(16) All Saints Bingo Game from Shower of Roses (30 different bingo card printable!)

Filed Under: Saints

as scary as it gets in our house: our own friendly Ghostbuster!

October 26, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

It was fun making the backpack…with extra lids, orphaned baby dishes, random bottle spouts, flapped lids, baby bottle collars and $1 store dish towel holders on a spray-painted cardboard box. The hose is a couple of white-duct-tape wrapped paper rolls. The latch for the hose is a the leftover duct tape roll. The utility belt was a prized custom-made gift a few years ago and the flashlights and goggles were neat ‘finds’ around the house. The little viles are those little water containers for the ends of cut flowers. I knew I’d figure out another use for them someday. The classic ghostbuster logo on the T-shirt and the backpack were found online and copied and colored with my trusty sharpie markers. read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

Filed Under: link-up, Catholic Bloggers Network

Homemade Armor

October 24, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

Joseph is a knight for halloween…again.

We were able to re-use some of the pieces of armor…and modify others. Joseph no longer wanted a visor, but he wanted the back of his head protected better!

Filed Under: Armor of God

new Christian Blog Badge

October 20, 2011 by Monica McConkey 5 Comments

I am honored to receive my first nomination for a blog award. Thank you to Noreen of Rosary Mom for the Stylish Blogger Award. I plan to reciprocate by nominating a couple of blogs and responding with a special post, but I was thinking…

Filed Under: link-up, Catholic Bloggers Network

Links of Light Bulbs (2): Resources to teach the NEW MASS

October 19, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

The text of the MASS is changing for ALL english-speaking CATHOLICS around the world on November 26, 2011! This is a starter collection of ideas and resources to help teach the NEW text of the ROMAN MISSAL! (1) First of all, The Order of the new Roman Missal Mass: http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/order-of-mass.pdf (2) Celebrating the Mass Lesson Plans from The Catholic Toolbox http://catholicblogger1.blogspot.com/p/celebrating-mass-lessons.html (3) Activities for Preparing for the New Roman Missal by Maura Thompson Hagarty. www.smp.org/Images/BookImages/RMeSource-Activities-proofedBES-NEW.docx (4) Fill in the Blank Printables from the Diocese of Joliet http://revisedromanmissal.org/Portals/9/Resources_Images/WNM_FiB.pdf (5) Printable Resources on the new Roman Missal from Good Shepherd Parish http://www.goodshepherdparish.org/RomanMissal/RM_default.htm (6) Comprehensive program teaching the new Mass: A Catechist’s Guide to the New Translation from the Diocese of Lansing http://www.dioceseoflansing.org/catechesis_k12/Roman_Missal_Children_Adolescents.pdf (7) Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition Cathletics Craft Kit by Arma Dei …because we haven’t found another resource quite like it!! It’s fun, it’s packed with illustrations of Vessels, Vestments, Parts of the Mass, Church Furnishings and Sacraments AND it familiarizes kids with the NEW text of the Roman Missal. Even better: it comes with permission to photocopy for a WHOLE class or FOR ALL THE KIDS WHO LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE and can be used repeatedly over 10 Masses!

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!
Cathletics Craft Kit

Monica McConkey (Author) Check out the **NEW**VIDEO** Color Me Catholic Tutorial

It is now available by PDF to store on your computer and print for your own use!
Save on shipping with the PDF version
Price: $14 U.S.

Product Details
1 color cover, 20 black and white templates (double-sided printing), 3 black and white templates for the instructions and folder and permission to photocopy for a single household or single class term use.

Instructions and templates to create 10 mini-booklets, each offering 8 mini coloring pages of treasured Vessels, Vestments & Symbols, Church Furnishings, Parts of the Mass and Sacraments & Sacramentals plus 8 pages of phrases from the New Roman Missal Mass in sequential order.
A template is also included to create a folder to hold the booklets.

Filed Under: Catholic Crafts

Friendly, homemade Halloween costumes

October 18, 2011 by Monica McConkey 5 Comments

No, they’re not Saints for an All Saints Party. Our Catholic School can’t seem to let go of the Halloween “Spook-a-thon”, but I can at least insist that we have Friendly Halloween Costumes, without the gore or the scare factors.

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