Celebrating First Sacraments! It’s the Season!

Do you know anyone making their First Sacraments: First Reconciliation or First Holy Communion?

Here at Equipping Catholic Families, we have developed a series of Sacrament Craft Kits that have been very popular for Sacrament preparation, crafts and keepsakes!

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April Saints Days and 50 Days of Easter!

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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Last Minute Holy Week at Home

Spy Wednesday!

30 Coins Hidden

Tenebrae means “shadow” or “darkness.” The Liturgy of the Hours is chanted and with the completion of each reading, a candle is extinguished until the church is pitch black.

Spy Wednesday is traditionally the day we read how Mary anointed Jesus’ Feet with expensive oil and dried His Feet with her hair. Judas criticizes Mary’s efforts, mentioning that the price of the expensive oil would be better suited to help the poor. Judas looks for an opportunity to turn Jesus over to the chief priests and will receive 30 coins for his betrayal; approximately one tenth the expense of the anointing oil.

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no frills Lent Roulette

If you’re having trouble deciding how you’d like to grow spiritually, this Lent, try our

no frills Lent Roulette!

Pick a number from 1-14, from each list, each morning

and challenge your family to commit to at least one of them for that day.

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Print and Pray Craft Kits for Lent

Have you thought of what you’d like to do for Lent this year?

Giving up something, adding a prayerful devotion, donating money or time for the needs of the poor?

Here are a couple of links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!

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Ash Wednesday is next week already!

Just in time…the Catholic Mom Bundle for Lent 2026 is available now!

Now, with this being my 21st Catholic Mom Bundle I’m participating in, I always look forward to sharing some sneak peeks into the Bundle and while I’m always kind of excited about the collection of resources, this Lent’s Bundle has some amazing offerings from some NEW contributors! One of the printables is over 200 pages and it outlines the different charisms we can encourage in our kids…and how to do just that!

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Gospel Graces: a Scripture-centered Lent Devotional

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!

Gospel Graces
$27 $20 PDF Download

 

This is a Scripture and Illustration- DENSE Craft Kit that you can enjoy year after year!

This Catholic Craft Kit includes 56 Prompt to Pray cards, one for each day of Lent (including Cycles, A, B and C).

Each prayer card features an illustration and Scriptural quote from the particular Gospel for each day of Lent, along with a prompt to pray and a specific Gospel Grace or Virtue we can learn from the teaching and life of Jesus.

This Catholic Craft Kit also includes a double-sided, letter-sized,

fully illustrated calendar

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Live Liturgically this February!

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 last 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!

The Monthly Devotion for February is
the Holy Family

This month, the official Devotion focuses on the Holy Family. What an awesome example of family life, St Joseph, Mother Mary, and Jesus offer us!

Holy Family Crafts

Holy Family Felt Friends Tutorial

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NEW! Ordo Liturgical Seasons Calendar!

Just released!

The Ordo Liturgical Seasons Calendar for this FIRST span of Ordinary Time is now available for FREE to subscribers.

 

This Craft Kit offers a Liturgical Calendar page for the first span of the Season of Ordinary Time. The 5 1/2 weeks from January 12 to February 17 (Pancake Tuesday) are illustrated with Saints Feast Days. The Season Calendar also includes a recommended Prompt to Pray, relevant to the Monthly Devotion of the Holy Name of Jesus, and a Brainstorming exercise to create your own custom Prompts to Pray that fit your life (or your whole family life) to be recorded for easy reference.

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January Saints and Celebrations!

Equipping Catholic Families for

January 2026 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.

 

Key Feast Days in January:

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.

Monthly Devotion for January: Holy Name of Jesus

Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Christmas, then Ordinary Time!

12 Days of Christmas

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