Equipping Catholic Families for January 2024 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.

• 12 Days of Christmas: Reading, Crafts, Cookies and Ornaments!

• Prompt Me to Pray through the 12 Days of Christmas PDF is PACKED with prayers and prayer prompts to tap into all the wonderful gifts God has given us within our Faith! It has simple summaries and excellent prompts to pray: to pray with gratitude, to foster the virtues and gifts already infused into us at Baptism, and to help us appreciate all God’s Grace and Tools He freely offers to us, as we pursue holiness.

Key Feast Days in January:

• Solemnity of Mary (January 1) Mary Crafts, In the Arms of Mary
• World Day of Peace (January 1)
• St. Basil the Great (January 2)
• St. Gregory Nazianzen (January 2)
• Most Holy Name of Jesus (January 3)
• St. Genevieve (January 3)
• St. Elizabeth Seton (January 4)
• St. John Neumann (January 5)
• St. Andre Bessette (January 6)
• Epiphany of the Lord (January 7) Felt Kings Tutorial
• St. Raymond of Penysfort (January 7)
• Baptism of the Lord (January 9)
• St. Hilary (January 13)
• St. Anthony of Egypt (January 17)
• St. Sebastian (January 20)
• St. Agnes (January 21)
• Day of Prayer for the Unborn (January 22)
• St. Francis de Sales (January 24)
• Conversion of St. Paul (January 25)
• St. Timothy and St. Titus (January 26)
• St. Angela Merici (January 27)
• St. Thomas Aquinas (January 28)
• St. John Bosco (January 31)

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 8) and await the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd.