Equipping Catholic Families

Feast Day Fun: St Benedict!

July 11, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Welcome to Feast Day Fun: St Benedict!

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 and THREE). The St Benedict Medal is a powerful Holy Medal! Find out what all of the inscriptions mean as you check out the Giant St Benedict Foil Medal we made a couple years ago. Here’s our St Benedict Wooden Painted Saint. Check out our Wooden Painted Saint Tutorial to start your own set! We’ve got lots of ways to use them as well… in board games, classic playsets, Lego, Lincoln Logs, Saints Day decorations, chore counting and piano practicing.

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Feast Day Fun: St Maria Goretti

July 11, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Welcome to Feast Day Fun: St Maria Goretti!

At the age of 12, a young man tried to make Maria sin. When she absolutely refused, he stabbed her and she died a day later, but not before she forgave her murderer. Her murderer was arrested and 27 years later repented and reformed after seeing Maria in a dream. St Maria Goretti is the patron saint of girls and purity.

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New Release! Super Saints Cards featuring Kelly Saints!

July 6, 2015 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

Introducing a new SAINTS card game: Super Saints!

Easily learn about the saints…

while playing Super Saints STATS (flash cards) or Super Saints SHOWDOWN (see Top Trumps or NEW SAINTS GAME for more info)

54 Saint Cards + 1 Vocation Index (+ Quick Rules) in a glossy printed box

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Super Saints: NEW Saints Game!

July 3, 2015 by Monica McConkey 9 Comments

Top Trumps is a UNIVERSE of cool card games! It’s played kind of like the playing card game WAR, but incorporating and comparing numeric facts of your favorite movie characters, countries, book characters, wonders of the world…

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Feast Day Fun: St Thomas

July 2, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

July 3rd is the Feast Day of St Thomas, the Apostle! He is the patron of Architects!

St Thomas is the Apostle who would not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he felt the Wounds with his own hands.

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Teacher Gifts: All Occasion Saints Cards!

June 24, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Up here in Canada…we’re just hitting our LAST DAY of school for our elementary school kids! That’s right…both elementary and high schools finish near the end of June: not a moment too soon!

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Summer Project! Communion of Saints Family Calendar

June 22, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Looking for a fun family project this summer? How about collecting all your special family dates and recording them in this Saint-packed Perpetual Calendar! Once you fill in the key Birthdays, Sacrament dates and milestones for your immediate family (and even extended family!)…you can make color copies for Grandparents and Cousins, Aunts, Uncles and Godparents!

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Feast Day Fun: St Anthony

June 12, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

June 13 is the Feast Day of St. Anthony. St Anthony is known for his purity and innocence and for his intercession to find lost items. He is often pictured with Baby Jesus because the Infant Savior appeared to him.

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Feast Day Fun: Immaculate Heart of Mary

June 12, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is Friday and the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is Saturday!

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).

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Feast Day Fun: Sacred Heart of Jesus

June 10, 2015 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is today and the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is tomorrow!

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).

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