Links of Light Bulbs (2): Resources to teach the NEW MASS

The text of the MASS is changing for ALL english-speaking CATHOLICS around the world on November 26, 2011! This is a starter collection of ideas and resources to help teach the NEW text of the ROMAN MISSAL! (1) First of all, The Order of the new Roman Missal Mass: http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/order-of-mass.pdf (2)  Celebrating the Mass Lesson Plans from The Catholic Toolbox http://catholicblogger1.blogspot.com/p/celebrating-mass-lessons.html (3) Activities for Preparing for the New Roman Missal by Maura Thompson Hagarty. www.smp.org/Images/BookImages/RMeSource-Activities-proofedBES-NEW.docx  (4) Fill in the Blank Printables from the Diocese of Joliet http://revisedromanmissal.org/Portals/9/Resources_Images/WNM_FiB.pdf (5)  Printable Resources on the new Roman Missal from Good Shepherd Parish http://www.goodshepherdparish.org/RomanMissal/RM_default.htm (6) Comprehensive program teaching the new Mass: A Catechist’s Guide to the New Translation from the Diocese of Lansing http://www.dioceseoflansing.org/catechesis_k12/Roman_Missal_Children_Adolescents.pdf (7) Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition Cathletics Craft Kit by Arma Dei …because we haven’t found another resource quite like it!! It’s fun, it’s packed with illustrations of Vessels, Vestments, Parts of the Mass, Church Furnishings and Sacraments AND it familiarizes kids with the NEW text of the Roman Missal.  Even better:  it comes with permission to photocopy for a WHOLE class or FOR ALL THE KIDS WHO LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE and can be used repeatedly over 10 Masses!

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!
Cathletics Craft Kit

Monica McConkey (Author) Check out the **NEW**VIDEO** Color Me Catholic Tutorial 

It is now available by PDF to store on your computer and print for your own use!
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Price: $14 U.S.

 

Product Details
1 color cover, 20 black and white templates (double-sided printing), 3 black and white templates for the instructions and folder and permission to photocopy for a single household or single class term use.

Instructions and templates to create 10 mini-booklets, each offering 8 mini coloring pages of treasured Vessels, Vestments & Symbols, Church Furnishings, Parts of the Mass and Sacraments & Sacramentals plus 8 pages of phrases from the New Roman Missal Mass in sequential order.
A template is also included to create a folder to hold the booklets.

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Friendly, homemade Halloween costumes

No, they’re not Saints for an All Saints Party.  Our Catholic School can’t seem to let go of the Halloween “Spook-a-thon”, but I can at least insist that we have Friendly Halloween Costumes, without the gore or the scare factors.

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Links of Light Bulbs ~(1)

This is my first Links of Light Bulbs post!  I will be posting collections of ideas that I have found online and hope to tweak for my family and for my blog.  If you would like to join in with your own posts of collections of ideas, please borrow my button and join me with Links of Light Bulbs!

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new blog button

This is my new button!  I’m starting a new brand of post on my blog.  Each “Links of Light Bulbs” will offer a collection of neat ideas I have found online, with a quick picture, a link to the original source and any extra commentary or ideas I plan to add when I try it! Anyone else want to join in?Please borrow my button…and any links back to my site are always appreciated! read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

Blog in a Blink

Here are some of my favorite projects on my blog…for the family! Anyone have a favorite? Anyone else want to share a “blog in a blink”? I’ll make a button! Castle Felt Fort    Guess Who! The Family and the Saints! Felt Puppet Theatre  Castle and Catapults  Swingset Splashpad  Superhero Party Kelly Comics   Magic Party   TY Doll Makeover Catholic Memory Game with Frozen Juice Lids  DIY Rainbow Scrabble Tiles      Kids’ Quotebook Holy Family Felt Friends  Superhero Registration pdfs Harry Potter Gryffindor Scarves  Perpetual Calendar for the Family read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

a new look at Guardian Angels! Book Badge Review: "Send Me Your Guardian Angel"

Happy Feast of the Guardian Angels!

“Send Me Your Guardian Angel” is not just an inspiring testament to St Padre Pio’s holiness.  It does remind us of his stigmata, ecstasy and conversations with Jesus and Mary.  It also reminds us of how revered he was during his lifetime.  I’m still picturing the little italian ladies chasing Padre Pio with scissors, eager to snatch pieces of his clothes for relics!

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October for Catholics

October is the month of the Rosary!  Teach kids…as young as toddlers to say the Rosary with this simple paper craft, the Spiritual Bouquet of Prayer Petal Flowers!  The flowers may look a little crazy at the end of it, but Grandma will appreciate the unique spiritual bouquet! St Therese is an important Saint for the month of October! Check out our Good Deed Bead Bracelets inspired by St Therese! Check out our TY dolls to Saints Makeovers! Can you spot the October Saints in the picture? Let the Saints guide you through the Liturgical Calendar! Check out these other links of creative ideas to celebrate the Catholic Faith! This is my brand new button! I’m starting a new brand of post on my blog. Each “Links of Light Bulbs” will offer a collection of neat ideas I have found online, with a quick picture, a link to their original source and any extra commentary or ideas I plan to add when I try it through my blog. Anyone else want to join in? Please borrow my button…and any links back to my site are always appreciated!

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celebrating the Saints!

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Top Ten Ways to Recycle an empty Peanut Butter Jar

1. Travel Ice Box: nice and cold, no leaks and melts into refreshing drinking water!  Fill with ice cubes…just don’t fill the whole jar with water and freeze because the plastic jar will crack with the lightest of taps on a counter. Trust me.

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Color Me Catholic! Learn the New Mass!

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!

Cathletics Craft Kit

Monica McConkey (Author) Price: $16 U.S.Printed Version to be shipped (Shipping will be $6 to the U.S.)
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Color Me Catholic Tutorial 

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Price: $14 U.S.

 

Product Details
1 color cover, 20 black and white templates (double-sided printing), 3 black and white templates for the instructions and folder, permission to photocopy for single household or single class term use, all contained in a clear plastic 11″x 9″ envelope.


Instructions and templates to create 10 mini-booklets, each offering 8 mini coloring pages of treasured Vessels, Vestments & Symbols, Church Furnishings, Parts of the Mass and Sacraments & Sacramentals plus 8 pages of phrases from the New Roman Missal Mass in sequential order. 
A template is also included to create a folder to hold the booklets.

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Journey with Jesus Cathletics Craft Kits

  Three already-researched and formatted templates for Sacrament based scrapbook and journalling crafts, inspired by our unique Faith Journal Hand in hand with Jesus.

The square templates can be cut to fit into an  8″x8″ constructed or store-bought scrapbook or folded according to the enclosed instructions  for an ACCORDIAN BOOK. Coloring and scrapbooking techniques are recommended to embellish the layouts, along with the clipart provided.

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