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October 28 is the Feast Day of St Simon and St Jude, both Apostles of Jesus.
This time around, I’m going to focus on St Jude. Once I gather more information about St Simon, I will post a separate Feast Day Fun edition and probably focus on activities about the Apostles.
Check out my latest article at Seton Homeschool: Living the Liturgical Year: Make Ordinary Time; ‘Extraordinary’
1. Bringing Catechism to Life
2. Inspiring Prayer in Kids
3. Get Enthused by the Saints!
It’s that time of year again! LENT!
I seem to be looking for ways to get back on track in my prayer life …throughout the whole year, but Lent is always a great time to refocus!
Need some ideas to jump into the new year 2014?
1. Did you pick a Patron Saint for the New Year? I used the Saint Generator at Conversion Diary and received St Raymon Nonnatus…and I received St John Gualbert in the 2014 Patron Saint for the Year Devotion at A Catholic Life.
In the Treasure Chest, we included an idea for a God Box: a special decorated and at times elastic-locked box to hold our special prayer petitions, in an attempt to hand them over to the Lord. The God Box can be made for a whole family or a whole classroom or for each child. Prayers are shared as desired, but we can all pray for the unspoken intentions in The God Box.
As Catholics, we have no shortage of classic, beautiful prayers and devotions and I think it’s important to build our repertoire of prayers as family or in a classroom. That’s why we created the All Season Prayer Bank.
Share your favorite prayer from your blog.
If it’s your own prayer, please include your name as the author.
If it’s borrowed, please include the proper author or “author unknown”.
If you have a great prayer to share,
but you don’t have a blog…
please paste it in a comment and I’ll try to add it to the link up.
If you have a picture in mind for the thumbnail…
please send me a link or email me the pic.
If you link up, please include a link to Equipping Catholic Families on your blog or at least in your prayer share post.
Feel free to grab the FAVORITE PRAYER SHARE button, but please make sure that it links back to Equipping Catholic Families.
I had a ‘lightbulb’ during prayer-time the other day.
Feels like the Holy Spirit!
Check out what I learned over at my other blog I Blog Jesus!
Isn’t Pinterest fun? My only challenge about pinterest…is how to really use it to create things to help my family! It’s so easy to pin pretty pictures, but sometimes they just gather on my pinboards and I don’t actually try the craft or recipe. I have been delighted to discover awesome artists who I would not have found without pinterest, but I don’t always remember to visit my ‘artwork’ pinboard to admire all of the work. Together with prayers I have managed to find and pin, I have created a new Prayer Book Pinboard, but this time…I have an action plan! This collection will be used to build something!
Before Lent started this year, I was already trying something new. I picked up a spiral-bound daytimer calendar at the dollar store. I like it because there are only about 2 days per page, with lines to write on and even little check-circles to check. The calendar is not specific to any year…it has the months and the dates, but not the day of the week. I’m using it to keep track of how I meet my goals each day:
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