Feast Day Fun: St Francis of Assisi

Feast Day Crafts and Activities

Excerpts from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families , various posts at Equipping Catholic Families and our Saint Scripts Craft Kits (Series ONE and TWO).

Saint Francis abandoned his wealth and began begging for food in addition to praying and fasting.  He founded the Franciscan order, living in poverty and helping the sick and the poor.

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Feast Day Fun: Guardian Angels

October 2nd is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. Although most of us are familiar with the Guardian Angel Prayer, we may not call upon our own Guardian Angels (and those of our kids’) often enough!

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Feast Day Fun Saint Thérèse

Feast Day Crafts and Activities

Excerpts from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families , various posts at Equipping Catholic Families and our Saint Scripts Craft Kits (Series ONE and TWO).

St Thérèse inspires us all with her child-like Faith and confident “little way” …offering sacrifices out of love for Jesus and trusting completely in Him!

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Rome Day Nine


I have actually seen the Pantheon before….but drawing it makes me feel like I’m in Architecture School again!

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Feast Day Fun: the Archangels

Feast Day Crafts and Activities

Excerpts from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families , various posts at Equipping Catholic Families and our Saint Scripts Craft Kits (Series ONE and TWO).

The three Archangels are St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael.

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Rome Day Seven: our new Pope Francis Prayer Card!

Today, we will go to Mass at St Peter’s Basilica and stay to pray the Angelus with Pope Francis at noon! We are also planning on attending the Papal Audience on Wednesday (the Feast of St Therese!).  One way or another…I will have our own Equipping Catholic Families Pope Francis Prayer Cards with me, to receive a general blessing from Pope Francis!

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Rome Day Six

Off to Assisi!

We prayed at the tomb of St Francis today…and then we prayed at the tomb of St Clare and saw relics from both awesome Saints! What a great day!

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Rome Day Five

Rome Day Three: Pope Francis

Today…we learned that things change on a pilgrimage….and that can be pretty great too! Last night, I learned that a few members of our group had special tickets for the General Audience and they invited me to come with them!

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Rome Day Two: Feast of St Padre Pio

 Buon giorno!

I’m in Rome!

I can’t believe it! I’m here! We had a great trip through Philadelphia to Rome. We settled in at the Pallotine Sisters’ GuestHouse and gathered all together  for Mass celebrated by Fr Scott McCaig. We did a quick little orientation…walking the 7 minutes to St Peter’s…and grabbing lunch on the way! Mike and Sue pointed out some key places we’ll likely return to and both Mike and Fr Scott told us some great pope stories on location!

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