June Saints Days, Solemnities and Feasts!

May 26, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Monthly Devotion of June: Sacred Heart of Jesus

Key Feast Days in June:

St Justin (June 1)
St Peter, St Marcellinus (June 2)
St Charles Lwanga & Companions (June 3)
Solemnity of The Trinity (June 4) Cathletics Key Cards: The Trinity

Cathletics Key Card Craft Kit: Trinity Pack!

June Saints Days!

St Boniface (June 5)
St Norbert (June 6)
St Ephrem (June 9)
St Margaret of Scotland (June 10)
CORPUS CHRISTI Solemnity (June 11)

St Barnabas (June 11)
St Anthony of Padua (June 13)
St Basil the Great (June 14)

Sacred Heart of Jesus and
Immaculate Heart of Mary: June 16-17

Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 16) Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart (Review)
Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 17) Immaculate Heart of Mary Rosary Abacus
Woven Heart Craft (with video tutorial)
Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart Journal Stamps

Fathers Day (June 18)
St Romuald (June 19)
St Aloysius (June 21)
St Thomas More, St John Fisher, St Paulinus of Nola (June 22)
Birth of St John the Baptist (June 24)
St Cyril of Alexandria (June 27)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (June 27) Mary Crafts
St Irenaeus (June 28)
St Peter and St Paul (June 29)
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome (June 30)

It’s Ordinary Time !

Check out Equipping Catholic Families for Ordinary Time at Home!

Prayer Resources

Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey presents practical tips for prayer that can be easily customized to fit our busy lives, habits, daily tasks, and even our struggles. Recognizing our littleness as an inexhaustible source of Prompts to Pray helps us to reach out humbly in prayer when we need Him most and reminds us that God can use all things for good.

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Renovations

May 26, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

We recently renovated our online Arma Dei Catholic Shop with new formatting, and helpful buttons offering shortcuts to carefully-curated products according to Season of the Liturgical Calendar, Sacraments, Saints, Catechism, Prayer, and Prayer Journal Stamps!

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Celebrate Mary, our Mother, this Month of MAY!

May 1, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

It’s MAY!

Join us to celebrate May Saints and the Monthly Devotion dedicated to Our Blessed Mother Mary and the continued joyful season of Easter! Do you see something you like?

We’ve got a new Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Prayer Card available in the Shoppe!

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May the SAINTS be with You! Saints Days and Devotions for MAY

May 1, 2023 by Monica McConkey 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!

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A Customized Prayer Journal

April 18, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

…as unique as your Confirmandi

I have been making these custom Prayer Journals for my favorite Confirmation candidates this year!

Now with my NEW Vinyl Stickers, I can customize the colorful faux leather journals with their Confirmation Saint (or favorite patron Saint),
specially-chosen illustrated classic Catholic prayers from our Prayer Journal Craft Kits, and a simple How to Prayer Journal intro.

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Holy Week Printables

April 3, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

It’s HOLY WEEK!

Here are some LAST MINUTE Craft and Family Tradition Activities with printables you can purchase, print and PRAY with right away!

Gospel Graces

This craft kit makes a good review ANY time of year of Jesus’ Public Ministry. It includes full Lenten Calendars (for all three Liturgical Cycles) AND postcard Prayer Prompts of all the key events with Gospel Reading references, illustrations and Prayer Prompts!
Use year after year during LENT…and ALL through the Year for Prompts to Pray through Jesus’ Public Ministry!

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April Saints and Devotion of The Eucharist!

April 3, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Equipping Catholic Families for April 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.

The Monthly Devotion for April is The Eucharist!

We love the Mass! Here are a couple more resources to help us focus at Mass and prepare for the Sacrament of the Eucharist:

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Equipping Catholic Families with Lent Craft Kits

February 9, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

The Lent Challenge Calendar

The LENT CHALLENGE Calendar Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you GIVE, PRAY and LOVE through the days of Lent (year after year!), with: TWO different sized Calendar templates with lots of options and reminders and easily customized to YOUR FAMILY:
Give+Pray+Love LENT CHALLENGE Calendar PDF Download: $10

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Pray More Women’s Retreat

February 6, 2023 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

I just curated our first-ever St. Mark’s Women’s Ministry Weekend Retreat this past weekend and it was packed with prayerfully-chosen videos of Fr. Mike Schmitz and Fr. Casey talking about why we pray and how we pray MORE.

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February Saints Days!

February 6, 2023 by Monica McConkey 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 have 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!