Archives for November 2013

Special Advent Addendum for your Family Prayer Bank!

We have just released our special Advent Addendum for use with our popular All Season Prayer Bank!

You can tuck these 24 Advent prayer cards and prayer card templates in your All Season Prayer Bank, buy the All Season Prayer Bank

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Fun Friday before Advent Sale!

Get 30% OFF your purchase of THREE Cathletics Craft Kits TODAY!

Check out our inventory of

Cathletics Craft Kit Printables at the Arma Dei Shoppe!

Use the discount code Advent2013

after you ADD to CART: THREE Cathletics Craft Kit Printables

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Small Success + 7 Quick Takes

I hope I’m not stepping on any toes…but I have decided to combine Small Success Thursdays with 7 Quick Takes Friday.  I find that I’m really excited to be a part of both communities of bloggers, but I expect that my subscribers probably don’t need two back-to-back posts with overlap. I find that the crowd at CatholicMom is so welcoming and encouraging…and they really go out of their way to visit all the linked up posts (and they comment too!) It feels like a family over there!

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8 things / 10 months / Pilgrimage to ROME!

These are my 8 things to do

….10 months away from my Pilgrimage to ROME:

Sept 22-Oct 3, 2014!

1. Find a great Catholic Tour company…like St Gemma’s Catholic Pilgrimages  It’s Catholic!…and Mike and Sue are awesome hosts!

2. Consider and invite WHO you would like to travel with. I have recommended an awesome chaplain…and this week it was confirmed that Fr Scott McCaig will be the chaplain for our pilgrimage Sept 22, 2013- Oct 3, 2013Fr Scott McCaig is the General Superior of the Companions of the Cross…and he’s a close family friend whose vocation we confirmed through his stay with us a week after our first baby was born.

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a VOTE for Praying Out Loud

How about a vote for Praying Out Loud?

 I’d appreciate YOUR VOTE over at the Catholic Spirituality Blogs Network.

Thanks!

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Cross Catholic Outreach Art Show!

This Christmas season, Catholic Inspired, Cross Catholic Outreach and other Catholic Bloggers including Equipping Catholic Families are teaming up to empower kids to help the poor while using their artistic talent. Kids of all ages will be able to participate in an online art show from now until December 31st, 2013. Parents, family members and friends will make donations on behalf of their artwork to Cross Catholic Outreach. All proceeds will feed impoverished children and families in El Progreso, Honduras at the Prince of Peace Nutrition Center.

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The Family Handprint Jesse Tree

I will admit it. We have been raising Catholic kids for 17 years and up until this year, I have never really had a Jesse Tree.

In fact, as I prepared my review and giveaway of these awesome  Jesse Tree Treasures, I had a number of “what are those?” questions.  The kids have made their share of single ornaments at school over the years, but we have never jumped in on this tradition at home.

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Keep Christ in Christmas blog link-up!

Want to launch your Advent, focused on JESUS?

Want to share your ideas for keeping CHRIST in CHRISTMAS?

A couple of bloggers from the Catholic Bloggers Network are hosting

the 2nd Annual Keep Christ in Christmas Blog Link-Up!

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7 Quick Takes 3.0

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After 17 years of raising Catholic kids, I finally made our first Jesse Tree!

After receiving this beautiful set of Jesse Tree ornaments from Jesse Tree Treasures, I needed a worthy, hand-crafted tree to launch our new (to us) Advent tradition.

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2013 Frankie Award: I’ve been nominated!

I’ve been nominated for a 2013 Frankie Award for a post on my other blog:

Check out For Praying Out Loud and then vote for me read all the entries over at Catholic Spirituality Blogs!

…and if you’d like you could vote for ME! Thanks!

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