With the reality of closed Churches and cancelled public Masses, we’re all scrambling to figure out how to celebrate the liturgies of Holy Week meaningfully at home.
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Crafts with Easy-to-Print Catholic Printables
March 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Prayer Crafts
Hands-On Crafts Lenten Pack of Prayers:
Rosary, Divine Mercy and Stations of the Cross!
Print, Color, Assemble and Pray!
- Sign of the Cross Mirror Signs
- Illustrated Prayer Cards (Classic Prayers)
- Stations of the Cross Coloring Page
- Rosary Coloring Page
- Divine Mercy Coloring Page
- Reconciliation Refresher
- Monthly Saints Days
- Prayer Journal Prompts
- St Benedict Medal
- It’s My Feast Day Plate
Customize a dollar store notebook into a treasured Prayer Journal, just the way you want it!
NEW: Cathletics Craft Bundle PDF
March 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
We’ve launched a new craft kit! 3 easy activities to print, color and assemble at home for some Catechism quizzing and a new way to keep track of all those prayer petitions!
Have you ever found an easy resource to learn about our most cherished Mysteries of Faith, all in one place?
Have you wondered how to keep all the Rules to Live By straight, between the Commandments, the Virtues, the Precepts, the Sacraments and the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy?
We’ve finally transformed some of our classic Cathletics Key Cards into Craft Kits you can print and assemble at home! We’re giving you a sneak peek at the first one in this special bundle…as we get ready to launch an exciting series of Cathletics Key Cards with many new titles and lots of important Catechism!
Bundle for Quarantined Times
March 22, 2020 by 1 Comment
Faced with this unprecedented time of business, school and Church closings, canceled public Masses and mandatory staycations in our homes, a group of us have pulled together a new collection of resources to ease the anxiety, boost your daily Lenten journey, inspire home learning, and strengthen family.
Mentors of Mercy: NEW Craft Kit in the Shoppe!
February 8, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The Mentors of Mercy Craft Kit includes templates featuring illustrated examples of Mercy, exemplified by Jesus and the Saints.
17 pages of templates can be colored and assembled to create 3 Booklets, Carousel or Accordion Centerpieces based on the Corporal Works of Mercy, Spiritual Works of Mercy and Mysteries of Mercy from Jesus’ Public Ministry.
Feast Day Fun: February
January 26, 2020 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!
Feast Day Fun: January!
December 28, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for January 2020 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.
- Feast of the Holy Family (December 29)
- 12 Days of Christmas: Reading, Crafts, Cookies and Ornaments!
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)
- 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)
- Epiphany of the Lord (January 5) Felt Kings Tutorial
- St. Raymond of Penysfort (January 7)
- Baptism of the Lord (January 12)
- 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 12) and await the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd.
Equipping Catholic Families for May Saints and Celebrations!
April 30, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Join us to celebrate May Saints, the Monthly Devotion dedicated to Our Blessed Mother Mary and the continued joyful season of Easter! Do you see something you like? Click on the pictures and/or links for easy crafts and already-formatted Catholic Craft Kits that come with permission to copy for home use, year after year!
Equipping Catholic Families for 50 Days of Easter!
April 25, 2019 by 2 Comments
Alleluia! He has Risen!
This is our summary post of sustainable celebration for all 50 days of Easter including non-chocolate surprises and treats for plastic eggs and awesome Catholic crafts and family traditions!
We’re just recovering from a FLU-filled Holy Week…sorry for the delay in this post!
Equipping Catholic Families with a NEW Hands-On Prayer-packed Craft Kit for LENT!
February 22, 2019 by 2 Comments
So, even though I have 50 Cathletics Craft Kits in my Arma Dei Shoppe, it’s hard to believe that I don’t actually have one craft kit dedicated to LENT! Well, that is, until NOW!
Hands-On Lenten Pack of Prayers
This craft kit focuses mainly on the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet and offers more inventive ways to get kids hands-on praying! Prayers are counted as beads are colored or laced up with a shoelace! Our Super Saints illustrations are kid-friendly and enticing and help to focus our prayers just a little bit more! Plus, they’re just fun to look at!
