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Don’t forget to check out Blog in a Blink 2014: Part TWO for July-December highlighted posts!
January!
We discovered making Saints out of Egg Cartons with
We also launched our special Reconciliation Peek Sheets Printable! Perfect for your First Reconciliation Prep or a Reconciliation Refresher!
Last year in my attempt to get more organized, I compiled my own Catholic Blog Planner complete with
Finally, I had one binder to include written records of key passwords, contact information, dates and all those pesky details I expect to remember at the time only to forget them well before I need the info again.
I almost forgot to put out My Little Felt Friends Nativity! I love these durable little felt dolls and I specifically asked for the classic St Joseph (with the lilies) and Mother Mary holding the Infant Jesus so that I can bring them out for various Feast Days throughout the year…and especially these next 12 Days of Christmas!
So, I didn’t write a Christmas letter but made a 2014 Collage instead! Just in case you haven’t seen it in the mail yet, I thought I’d share it here! 2014 was a big year in our family…with many big decade anniversaries and a crazy jump in travel in the fall! We also had a couple big firsts with Bridget’s First Communion, Emily’s First Year in University and Adam’s First Day of School in Junior Kindergarten!
This is the time of year, I inevitably start to panic a little. Our previous plans to avoid an extravagant Christmas are called into question as we marvel at the buying frenzy…and worry that we have enough for everyone…
Antonietta Meo was born on December 15, 1930.
Do you know Antonietta Meo, not yet recognized a Saint, but Servant of God?
She died at the tender age of 6 and a half. Her simple, but powerful Faith, her love for Jesus and her profound understanding of suffering captured my heart as I visited her tomb at Santa Croce in Rome.
December 13th is the Feast Day of St Lucy. St Lucy was a young Christian who vowed at an early age to be a Bride of Christ. She was reported to the government for the crime of being a Christian, by a suitor she had turned away. One legend reports that she plucked out her own eyes because their beauty attracted unwanted attention from suitors. Her eyes were miraculously healed.
We were inspired by the book Bambinelli Sunday. See Bridget’s review below!
We decided to take advantage of the SNOW DAY … and make our own Bambinelli.
I was intrigued by 2 different homemade recipes for dough I found online: one for salt/flour dough and one for corn starch/baking soda dough. The corn starch dough made a cool kind of dough and it’s nice and smooth and bright white, but we must have done something wrong, because it will not keep its’ shape. The trusty salt dough was easier to work with and even though it can get a little crumbly, we like how our Bambinelli turned out.
December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She appeared to St Juan Diego, whose Feast Day we celebrated on Tuesday!
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)
Clare’s Costly Cookie by Julie Kelly, illustrated by Mary MacArthur.
Review by Bridget McConkey, age 8.
Clare’s Costly Cookie is a very nice book. I like how it’s about a girl growing closer and closer to God, but it’s not only about her praying to God and getting closer to God, but Clare even has these Saint cards that she tells you about. For example, St. Agnes. She was young and very beautiful so many people wanted to marry her but she always refused. When she refused to marry a prince, the king tried to ask her but she refused again and said that her heart was for God. Then he got angry and ordered for her to be killed.
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