Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
My amazing Mom passed away on July 8, 2025. My Dad still lives in the same house I grew up in, and he’s adjusting to being a widower after 61 years married to my Mom.
He’s learning to cook, do laundry and all the things, and I’ve been going to his doctor’s appointments with him.
If you’re having trouble deciding how you’d like to grow spiritually, this Lent, try our
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.
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!
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!
These Rosary Resources are already researched and formatted with the prayers and Mysteries of the Rosary. The craft kits are fun activities to color, embellish and assemble into powerful prayer counters, keeping little hands busy and hearts focused and prayerful.
Spiritual Bouquet of Prayer Petal Flowers
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 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
This Catholic Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you GIVE, PRAY and LOVE through the days of Lent (year after year!), with:
-one double-sided letter-sized (8.5″x11″) calendar of Lenten Practices
AND four letter-sized templates, printed and easily assembled to make
-one double-sided 11″x17″ tabloid-sized calendar of Lenten Practices.
All this to say, you can print this PACKED Lent Calendar on just 1 or 2 pages of paper
and it will keep your entire family on track for the whole Season of LENT!
This self-guided retreat is an invitation to rediscover prayer in the midst of ordinary life. Instead of waiting for the “perfect” quiet moment, or quieter season in your life, you’ll learn how to turn your real, everyday experiences into personal prompts to pray from the heart. Daily chores, routines, distractions, temptations, frustrations, and even your habits and weaknesses become gentle reminders to reach for the Lord. Nothing is wasted — every thought, feeling, and task can become a small, personal return to His presence…and a custom conversation-starter with Him. By the end of this retreat, you’ll be building a rhythm of prayer that grows naturally out of your real life,
In 2020, we released this deeply personal, but practical book about prayer: Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey
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.
The book features different approaches to heartfelt prayer, including journaling and praying out loud, with both spontaneous and classic prayers. It also includes journaling pages with specific writing prompts and prayers to customize your own personal plan for prayer, and a prayer vault of classic prayers and templates with full color pocket prayer prompts.
And now, we are offering a Self-Guided Retreat which includes the original book Prompt Me to Pray and the Retreat Companion workbook to crystallize your own customized Prayer plan, using personal and practical reminders that are unique to you!
The Retreat Companion is a 27-page booklet for your eyes only! Within these workbook pages, you can explore your most effective, consistent prompts, and practicing these prompts will most certainly lead to more consistent, heartfelt prayer as we strive to pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
I love this quote from St. Alphonsus Liguori from his book How to Converse with God
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears– of everything that concerns you.
Do you yearn for your relationship with Jesus to feel deeper and more real?
Are you ready for your own personal season of consistent and intimate prayer from the heart?
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!
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 Felt Friends Tutorial
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.
Monica shares the Prompts to Pray that she has discovered as she pursues consistent, heartfelt prayer and a personal relationship with Jesus.
Since this book, we have created additional resources to prompt us to pray through the Liturgical Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.
We have created a number of Catholic Craft Kit Printables to prompt us to pray throughout all seasons of the Liturgical Calendar including the 32 or 33 weeks of Ordinary Time.
In the weeks a head we will be showing you a number of practical little gifts that will also prompt us all to pray
a little more every day!
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