Feast Day Fun: 2019 December

Equipping Catholic Families for December Saints!

  • Both the month of December and the season of Advent begin this Sunday!
  • Here 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.

Key Feast Days in December:

  • St Francis Xavier (December 3)
  • St John Damascene (December 4)
  • St Nicholas (December 6)
  • St Ambrose (December 7)
  • Immaculate Conception (December 8)
  • St Juan Diego (December 9)
  • Our Lady of Loretto (December 10)
  • Our Lady, Queen of Angels (December 11)
  • St Damasus I (December 11)
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12)
  • St Lucy (December 13)
  • St John of the Cross (December 14)
  • O Antiphons (December 17-23)
  • Bambinelli Sunday (December 15)
  • Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Dec 18)
  • St Abraham, St Isaac, St Jacob (December 20)
  • St Thomas, St Peter Canisius (December 21)
  • St John of Kanty (December 23)
  • The Birth of Jesus (December 25)
  • St Stephen (December 26)
  • St John Apostle (December 27)
  • Holy Innocents (December 28)
  • St Thomas Becket (December 29)
  • Feast of the Holy Family (December 29)


Check out the St Nick Bundle at the Arma Dei Shoppe for great stocking stuffers!

Get FIVE decks for just $52 including shipping within US and Canada, when you use this code: StNickBundle2019  for a limited time!

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Equipping Catholic Families for Advent with crafts, activities and traditions!

The Feast of Christ the King is this Sunday! We’ve got a Craft Kit for that!

Easy as Abacus Divine Mercy plus Christ the King Novena is an easy-to-assemble Craft to keep track of prayers for the Novena of Christ the King as well as the Divine Mercy Chaplet!

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November Saints Days

Equipping Catholic Families for November 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.

Hey, are you ready for the NEW Liturgical Calendar starting December 1st?

We’ve got the NEW 2019-2020 Wall Calendar for Every Day Catholics and it includes November and December of 2019 plus all of 2020, illustrated with our unique Super Saints for Feast Days and Monthly Devotions plus a couple bonus templates for Catholic lists and logs!

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NEW! What Would The Saints Say STAMPS

We love the Saints! And what better time than ALL SAINTS DAY to launch our new line of What Would The Saints Say Journal Stamps!

How about using them in your prayer journal, planner, wall calendar, snail mail or lunch notes? The Saints are holy heroes to us and they can model the way for us to pray!

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Feast Day Fun in a Snappy Glance!

This year’s 16-month calendar is even more packed than ever before with our original Catholic Super Saints artwork illustrating various Feast Days and Monthly Devotions. We’ve included at least one treasured classic prayer on each month’s spread to prompt your prayer and love for these beautiful Catholic devotions! Our unique wall calendar format, allows you to use the laminated* backing year after year and just switch out the monthly pages, attached with 2 brass fasteners.

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October Feast Day Fun!


Welcome to our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions for October Saints, the Monthly Devotion of the Rosary and organized and prayerful Ordinary Time!

I think October is my favorite month for Saints with my favorites St. Therese and St. John Paul II.  See the time we stood up the Pope 

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September Feast Days {Equipping Catholic Families}

We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for September Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Seven Sorrows of Mary…along with various Catholic Crafts and Saint Calendar kits to ease our way Back to School!

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Equipping Catholic Families with August Saints Days and Catholic Crafts

We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for August Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Summer is a great time for a little extra crafting…so we also present Equipping Catholic Families…for Summer with the Saints!

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Equipping Catholic Families for July Saints Days and Celebrations!

We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for July Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Precious Blood of Jesus.

Monthly Devotion of July: Precious Blood of Jesus

Having a Play Mass Kit has significantly helped behavior at Mass! Check out the craft kit of easy parts list and instructions to make your own or my Dad’s Vintage Miniature Play Mass Set he used as a kid in Austria!

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Equipping Catholic Families for Ordinary Time

Immediately following the Solemnity of Pentecost last Sunday, we are officially launched into Ordinary Time! This longer of the two periods of Ordinary Time in the Liturgical Calendar takes us through the whole summer and fall and ends on the Feast of Christ the King; the last Sunday before Advent and the new Liturgical Calendar begins.

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