Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
Have you thought of what you’d like to do for Lent this year?
Giving up something, adding a prayerful devotion, donating money or time for the needs of the poor?
Here are a couple of links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!
Just in time…the Catholic Mom Bundle for Lent 2026 is available now!
Now, with this being my 21st Catholic Mom Bundle I’m participating in, I always look forward to sharing some sneak peeks into the Bundle and while I’m always kind of excited about the collection of resources, this Lent’s Bundle has some amazing offerings from some NEW contributors! One of the printables is over 200 pages and it outlines the different charisms we can encourage in our kids…and how to do just that!
These Rosary Resources are already researched and formatted with the prayers and Mysteries of the Rosary. The craft kits are fun activities to color, embellish and assemble into powerful prayer counters, keeping little hands busy and hearts focused and prayerful.
Spiritual Bouquet of Prayer Petal Flowers
This craft kit makes a good review ANY time of year of Jesus’ Public Ministry. It includes full Lenten Calendars (for all three Liturgical Cycles) AND postcard Prayer Prompts of all the key events with Gospel Reading references, illustrations and Prayer Prompts!
Use year after year during LENT…and ALL through the Year for Prompts to Pray through Jesus’ Public Ministry!
Gospel Graces
$27 $20 PDF Download
This Catholic Craft Kit includes 56 Prompt to Pray cards, one for each day of Lent (including Cycles, A, B and C).
Each prayer card features an illustration and Scriptural quote from the particular Gospel for each day of Lent, along with a prompt to pray and a specific Gospel Grace or Virtue we can learn from the teaching and life of Jesus.
This Catholic Craft Kit also includes a double-sided, letter-sized,
fully illustrated calendar
This Catholic Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you GIVE, PRAY and LOVE through the days of Lent (year after year!), with:
-one double-sided letter-sized (8.5″x11″) calendar of Lenten Practices
AND four letter-sized templates, printed and easily assembled to make
-one double-sided 11″x17″ tabloid-sized calendar of Lenten Practices.
All this to say, you can print this PACKED Lent Calendar on just 1 or 2 pages of paper
and it will keep your entire family on track for the whole Season of LENT!
This self-guided retreat is an invitation to rediscover prayer in the midst of ordinary life. Instead of waiting for the “perfect” quiet moment, or quieter season in your life, you’ll learn how to turn your real, everyday experiences into personal prompts to pray from the heart. Daily chores, routines, distractions, temptations, frustrations, and even your habits and weaknesses become gentle reminders to reach for the Lord. Nothing is wasted — every thought, feeling, and task can become a small, personal return to His presence…and a custom conversation-starter with Him. By the end of this retreat, you’ll be building a rhythm of prayer that grows naturally out of your real life,
In 2020, we released this deeply personal, but practical book about prayer: Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey
Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey presents practical tips for prayer that can be easily customized to fit our busy lives, habits, daily tasks, and even our struggles. Recognizing our littleness as an inexhaustible source of Prompts to Pray helps us to reach out humbly in prayer when we need Him most and reminds us that God can use all things for good.
The book features different approaches to heartfelt prayer, including journaling and praying out loud, with both spontaneous and classic prayers. It also includes journaling pages with specific writing prompts and prayers to customize your own personal plan for prayer, and a prayer vault of classic prayers and templates with full color pocket prayer prompts.
And now, we are offering a Self-Guided Retreat which includes the original book Prompt Me to Pray and the Retreat Companion workbook to crystallize your own customized Prayer plan, using personal and practical reminders that are unique to you!
The Retreat Companion is a 27-page booklet for your eyes only! Within these workbook pages, you can explore your most effective, consistent prompts, and practicing these prompts will most certainly lead to more consistent, heartfelt prayer as we strive to pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
I love this quote from St. Alphonsus Liguori from his book How to Converse with God
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears– of everything that concerns you.
Do you yearn for your relationship with Jesus to feel deeper and more real?
Are you ready for your own personal season of consistent and intimate prayer from the heart?
This is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days, and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar. As our kids get older, our activities and commitment to Catholic crafts have changed and adjusted (at least for our last TEEN and young adult kids)! While we haven’t exactly been adding a lot of Catholic crafts around here, we do enjoy pulling out the crafts and programs we’ve developed over the years, sometimes sharing them with younger families in our parish!
This month, the official Devotion focuses on the Holy Family. What an awesome example of family life, St Joseph, Mother Mary, and Jesus offer us!
Holy Family Felt Friends Tutorial
Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey presents practical tips for prayer that can be easily customized to fit our busy lives, habits, daily tasks, and even our struggles. Recognizing our littleness as an inexhaustible source of Prompts to Pray helps us to reach out humbly in prayer when we need Him most and reminds us that God can use all things for good.
Monica shares the Prompts to Pray that she has discovered as she pursues consistent, heartfelt prayer and a personal relationship with Jesus.
Since this book, we have created additional resources to prompt us to pray through the Liturgical Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.
We have created a number of Catholic Craft Kit Printables to prompt us to pray throughout all seasons of the Liturgical Calendar including the 32 or 33 weeks of Ordinary Time.
In the weeks a head we will be showing you a number of practical little gifts that will also prompt us all to pray
a little more every day!
23 Saints research templates formatted as full color recipe card/postcards with quick and quantifiable facts, plus black and white templates for research projects.
Saint Scripts Series FOUR contains the full color postcards plus blank templates with coloring picture for these Saints:
Ven Antonietta Meo, St Carlo Acutis, Bl Chiara Badano, St Damien of Molokai, St Dymphna, St Francesca, St Jacinta,
St Francis de Sales, Ven Fulton Sheen, St Gertrude, St Ignatius of Loyola, Bl Imelda Lambertini, St John of the Cross,
St José Sanchez del Rio, St Katherine Drexel, St Lazarus, St Martha, St Mary, St Perpetua, St Felicity, St Pier Giorgio Frassati,
St Philomena, St Rose of Lima. With permission to copy for a whole class!
Saint Scripts FOUR
The Holy Rummoli craft kit includes the 9 classic Card and Combo spaces, along with 8 additional custom Cathletics Card and Combo spaces, arranged to create the table-top Rummoli game.
Holy Rummoli can also be played with our own Cathletics Playing Cards!
You will love the thoughtful Card combos featuring our Catholic Faith and Catechism!
Holy Rummoli can be played with Cathletics (or a regular playing card deck) and a set of Poker Chips or Bingo tokens (not included).
Holy Rummoli!
Here’s something different! Here’s a Prayer App to help you say the 30 Day Cloak of St Joseph Novena using your phone!
A Pocket Prayer APP
The Cloak of St. Joseph
A meticulously designed 13-page PDF formatted to your PHONE!
This APP includes the entire 30-day Devotion of The Cloak of St Joseph, including all prayers and offerings, supplications, litany and invocations and includes our custom
Praying St Joseph illustration.
A Pocket Prayer APP for the Cloak of St Joseph
and consistent with our newly focused mission to prompt people to pray more consistently and from the heart (with the help of the Saints), here’s an introduction to a very special craft kit, close to my heart, that I created last year during Lent, too late to share for LAST Lent.
I was impressed with the huge selection of Catholic designs and fell in love with this one!
I was delighted to find a leather Bible cover for my Ascension Edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as it’s my third attempt to tackle Catechism in a Year! I think this beautiful leather book cover will inspire me to continue on, keeping my trusty sticky notes, notebook, highlighter pen and pencil altogether in one spot.
This particular Bible cover was not in stock, but it arrived VERY quickly! Amelia prepared me that it could take 25 days for production and shipping, but it arrived in just 11 days!
Perusing the CathoLight website, I LOVE their line of quality Leather purses, bags and book covers and when I went snooping through their jewellery line of necklaces, I bookmarked the Catholight Openwork French Auspice Maria Necklace.
I love the delicate design, and it’s definitely the one I’d choose!
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When Amelia from Catholight offered to gift me one of their Catholight leather bags, I chose the Divine Madonna and Child Bible Cover in the smaller “Medium” size. It’s actually a little snug. I think I would recommend at least the “Large” size for the Ascension Edition of the Catechism…and most Bibles of a similar size.
I am very happy with the design that is printed on both front and back covers, and the quality of the leather spine strap, stitching and inside heavy-duty fabric with sewn pockets for pens and notes. It also includes a leather strap and solid loops on the spine, to carry the zipped up book, as an over-the shoulder purse.
Check out all of their designs!
Which design would YOU choose, and would you choose a handbag, satchel, wallet, purse or Bible cover?
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