Today, we join Pope Francis as he consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary!
We’ve got a Prayer Card with our own original artwork and this prayer:
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
full of love for God and mankind,
and of compassion for sinners,
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary ~ NEW Original Prayer Card
March 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The Cloak of St Joseph Visual Devotional is here!
March 4, 2022 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been a fan of St. Joseph’s for quite some time…our son named after him just turned 21! My love and respect for St. Joseph only got stronger with the Consecration to St. Joseph a lot of us did last year and the Dedication of the Year to St. Joseph by Pope Francis.
NEW Craft Kit! It’s been in the works for over a decade!
February 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Gospel Graces: Prompts to Pray through LENT
Actually, way back in 2008, I began a project of illustrating the Sunday Gospel Readings! I got through most of Cycle A and then got distracted with other Craft Kits, Quizzing Cards and Books. Through my Prompt Me to Pray through the Seasons booklets I released last year, I became reacquainted with these illustrations and decided to pull together:
Equipping Catholic Families for February Saints!
February 3, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for February Saints Days!
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 has changed and adjusted (at least for our tween, 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!
NEW! LENT Challenge Calendar Craft Kit: Give+Pray+Love
February 1, 2022 by 3 Comments
We’ve just released a NEW Craft Kit for upcoming Lent! Lent starts on March 2nd this year! You can easily download and print this Lent Challenge Calendar (either letter-size or assembled to 11×17″ tabloid size) for daily Lent Challenge options for the WHOLE FAMILY!
NEW Rosary Craft Kit: Revolving Rosary!
January 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The Revolving Rosary is assembled to make ONE Mysteries of the Rosary Spinwheel (to keep track of the Mysteries of the Rosary, decade by decade) and ONE Prayers of the Rosary Spinwheel (to keep track of the Our Father, ten Hail Marys and one Glory Be prayers recited with each decade)
Equipping Catholic Families for January Saints 2022!
January 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for January 2021 Saints!
Welcome to our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar.
- Prompt Me to Pray through the 12 Days of Christmas PDF is PACKED with prayers and prayer prompts to tap into all the wonderful gifts God has given us within our Faith! It has simple summaries and excellent prompts to pray: to pray with gratitude, to foster the virtues and gifts already infused into us at Baptism, and to help us appreciate all God’s Grace and Tools He freely offers to us, as we pursue holiness.
Key Feast Days in January:
- Solemnity of Mary (January 1) Mary Crafts, In the Arms of Mary
- World Day of Peace (January 1)
- St. Basil the Great (January 2)
- St. Gregory Nazianzen (January 2)
- Epiphany of the Lord (January 2) Felt Kings Tutorial
- Most Holy Name of Jesus (January 3)
- St. Genevieve (January 3)
- St. Elizabeth Seton (January 4)
- St. John Neumann (January 5)
- St. Andre Bessette (January 6)
- St. Raymond of Penysfort (January 7)
- Baptism of the Lord (January 9)
- St. Hilary (January 13)
- St. Anthony of Egypt (January 17)
- St. Sebastian (January 20)
- St. Agnes (January 21)
- Day of Prayer for the Unborn (January 22)
- St. Francis de Sales (January 24)
- Conversion of St. Paul (January 25)
- St. Timothy and St. Titus (January 26)
- St. Angela Merici (January 27)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (January 28)
- St. John Bosco (January 31)
He’s still a little BABY! Sock Baby Jesus can still hang around in his crib as we bask in the Baptism of the Lord (January 10) and await the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd.
Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Christmas
November 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Prompt Me to Pray through ADVENT is a 16 page 8.5″x5.5″ booklet that introduces a practical plan for more consistent prayer from the heart, particularly during the Liturgical Season of Advent. Particular experiences and circumstances within these four weeks before Advent can be associated with opportunities to pray. This booklet offers prayers as well as prayer journal prompts to make the most of Advent and the early celebration of Christmas, to dig deeper into prayer as we prepare our hearts for the Arrival of Jesus.
The Time I met Jesus on a Park Bench
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
So much of what we do each day is experienced through our senses. In conversation with others, we hear them, we see them, we experience our surroundings (even if we’re on Zoom!) and it is tangible. When we pray in mental prayer, from the silence of our hearts, we can lose sight of Whom we are praying to, perhaps sabotaging our efforts to be vulnerable, desensitizing ourselves, and impersonalizing our relationship with Jesus, because we can’t easily perceive or imagine His Presence.
A Stained Glass Rosary: Book Review
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
I’m so happy to receive A Stained Glass Rosary available at Thy Olive Tree for review!
Kate has the BRILLIANT idea of semi-transparent textured die-cut stickers to place on each printed rosary tracker on each decade page. Her stickers are available in her shop: Rosary Bead Stickers
