Due to the popularity of The Cloak of St Joseph Prayer Devotional Booklet, we have created a digital PDF version for use on your phone or mobile device!
A meticulously designed 13-page PDF formatted to your PHONE!
August SAINTS Days and celebrations!
July 28, 2025 by Leave a Comment
We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for August Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Summer is a great time for a little extra crafting…so we also present Equipping Catholic Families…for Summer with the Saints!
7 Prompts to Pray through [Mom’s] Palliative Care
June 19, 2025 by 11 Comments
After quite the busy year with two daughters getting married, I have found myself in a new season of life: together with my Dad and brother and my husband, I am caring for my beloved Mom, as she nears the end of her life in palliative care.
ALL NEW! Fast, Give, PRAY the WAY of the CROSS Craft Kit
March 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This has been a labor of love! No really!
I have just released the NEW Fast, Give, PRAY the WAY of the CROSS Craft Kit for a brand NEW Lenten Devotion based on The Way of the Cross.
Fast, Give, PRAY the WAY of the CROSS PDF
The Fast, Give, PRAY the WAY of the CROSS PDF includes 14 full-page illustrated Way of the Cross Stations with Fasting, Almsgiving and Prayer Challenges, to cycle through the hours of Ash Wednesday or Good Friday, OR to cycle through each day of Lent.
Lenten Challenge Calendar for year after year!
February 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Instant PRINT and PRAY Lent Calendar available for DOWNLOAD!
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
Gospel Graces for every day of LENT
February 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Gospel Graces
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!
NEW! Sacred Supper: A Christian Guide to the Jewish Seder Supper
February 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Sacred Supper: A Christian Guide to the Jewish Seder Supper is a 24-page illustrated booklet presenting the significance of this Jewish Tradition while drawing connections and insights from a Christian perspective.
Craft Kits for SACRAMENTS, Saints, Seasons, Catechism and Prayer!
February 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Checkout our Cathletics Craft Kits, packed with Sacraments, Saints, Liturgical Seasons, Catechism and Prayer! Click on a Craft Kit to read more about it in its Featured Post!
SACRAMENTS & MASS Craft Kits
A fresh way to prepare for the Sacraments! Scrapbook your way with our Kelly Saints and custom Catholic clipart, Catechism and Reflective prompts!
Family Plan for Consistent Prayer: 2025
January 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Something that has become more and more apparent as my kids one-by-one enter adulthood, is that while my vocation as Mom never ends, it does change! I remember those days of mothering with littles running around the house. They needed me for the physical things; food, drink, shelter, safety, comfort, and clothing, and they were learning so much in terms of basic skills and interests, subjects at school, and picking up prayers, Bible stories and beliefs of our Catholic Faith.
St. Benedict, Teach Us to Pray
August 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
St. Benedict (480-547) rejected wealth and worldliness and became a hermit. He then founded 12 monasteries and wrote The Rule of St. Benedict requiring prayer, spiritual reading, manual labor, obedience and the development of hospitality, medical, educational and agricultural skills.
Saints Prayer Master Class:
St. Benedict taught about Prayer in The Rule. He recommended specific times throughout the day and night for study and prayer, often as a community: reading, teaching, memorizing and singing passages of Scripture. Other times of private, personal prayer were certainly also recommended for a deep and intimate prayer life and relationship with God.
St. Benedict recommended a balanced lifestyle of work and prayer, and living simply. He insisted that we should pray as we begin to work and as we work, with humility and reverence.
From various writings of St. Benedict on prayer, I think the most unique and specific approach to prayer was his recommended practice of prayer and work simultaneously. St. Benedict steered away from compartmentalizing these two fundamental aspects and practices so that one did not interrupt the other, and by consistently praying during work, study, rest, and while serving others, one could truly pray unceasingly.
Summary Sticky-Note
To make it easier to understand and keep it straight from the teaching on Prayer of other Saints and Theologians I have been studying, I put together a little Summary Sticky-Note and compiled my notes on St. Benedict’s Writings on Prayer including ‘prayer-requisites’ and Prompts to Pray, based primarily on The Rule of St. Benedict and his other writings summarized in this book: Augustine on Prayer by Fr. Thomas Hand
St. Benedict also spoke about the necessity of humility, reverence, silence, Scripture, perseverance, and continuity in this prayer from the heart.
- HUMILITY
- REVERENCE
- HEARTFELT
- SCRIPTURE
- PERSEVERANCE
- CONTINUOUS
Prompt Me to Pray!
And St. Benedict even had a specific Prompt to Pray as he lived at the Monastery of Monte Cassino!
More info in the St. Benedict PDF Note Bundle.
I will be adding over 30 PDF Note Bundles gradually to this NEW
Saints’ MasterClass on Prayer Series over at Arma Dei!
Saints Prayer Master Class:
St. Augustine PDF Note Bundle
Following a brief introduction of St. Benedict and his teaching on Prayer, I present Prayer-Requisites: important virtues, dispositions, and practices for personal prayer, based on the Key Writings of St. Benedict.
Each PDF Note Bundle includes a Summary Sticky-Note, along with insights into prayer and how St. Benedict might prompt us to pray.
St. Benedict might prompt us to pray:
Prompt me to pray without ceasing, St. Benedict.
