With Easter Sunday on March 31st, here’s a summary of crafts and traditions for the Saints Days and Feast Days of April and the 50 days of Easter! That’s right! The season of Easter will extend until the Solemnity of Pentecost on May 19th!
March Saints Days in LENT
February 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for March Saints!
Welcome to our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days and the Liturgical Season of LENT!
The Monthly Devotion for March is St Joseph!
Book Recommendations
These books are SO GOOD!
Consecration to St. Joseph by Fr. Donald Calloway
Last Minute LENT Print-and-Pray Craft Kits
February 14, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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 links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!
Lent Crafts
February 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Looking for crafts to do at home, with what you have on hand?
We sifted through our archives and these are the simplest crafts we found for Lent!
Good Deed Bead Bracelets with pony beads and pipe cleaners make an easy bracelet with a built-in prayer or sacrifice counter! 10 beads make a decade, space an additional 5 for the five decades and wear the bracelet all Lent with renewed dedication to the Rosary!
Live Liturgically this FEBRUARY
January 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for February Saints Days!
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 tween, 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!
December Saints Days and ADVENT!
December 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
December Saints Days and ADVENT!
Equipping Catholic Families for December Saints!
It’s December and Advent starts 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: Advent!
Jesse Tree / O Antiphon Calendar 2023
November 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
…because the first Sunday of Advent falls between November 27th-December 3rd, the official Advent Calendar can look different every year (for 7 years!)
This year, Advent begins on December 3rd, so it’s the shortest Advent possible. The last Sunday of Advent is also Christmas Eve!
June Saints Days, Solemnities and Feasts!
May 26, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Monthly Devotion of June: Sacred Heart of Jesus
Key Feast Days in June:
- St Justin (June 1)
- St Peter, St Marcellinus (June 2)
- St Charles Lwanga & Companions (June 3)
- Solemnity of The Trinity (June 4) Cathletics Key Cards: The Trinity
Cathletics Key Card Craft Kit: Trinity Pack!
June Saints Days!
- St Boniface (June 5)
- St Norbert (June 6)
- St Ephrem (June 9)
- St Margaret of Scotland (June 10)
- CORPUS CHRISTI Solemnity (June 11)
- St Barnabas (June 11)
- St Anthony of Padua (June 13)
- St Basil the Great (June 14)
Sacred Heart of Jesus and
Immaculate Heart of Mary: June 16-17
- Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 16) Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart (Review)
- Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 17) Immaculate Heart of Mary Rosary Abacus
- Woven Heart Craft (with video tutorial)
- Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart Journal Stamps
- Fathers Day (June 18)
- St Romuald (June 19)
- St Aloysius (June 21)
- St Thomas More, St John Fisher, St Paulinus of Nola (June 22)
- Birth of St John the Baptist (June 24)
- St Cyril of Alexandria (June 27)
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help (June 27) Mary Crafts
- St Irenaeus (June 28)
- St Peter and St Paul (June 29)
- First Martyrs of the Church of Rome (June 30)
It’s Ordinary Time !
Check out Equipping Catholic Families for Ordinary Time at Home!
Prayer Resources
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.
Renovations
May 26, 2023 by Leave a Comment
We recently renovated our online Arma Dei Catholic Shop with new formatting, and helpful buttons offering shortcuts to carefully-curated products according to Season of the Liturgical Calendar, Sacraments, Saints, Catechism, Prayer, and Prayer Journal Stamps!
Celebrate Mary, our Mother, this Month of MAY!
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
It’s MAY!
Join us to celebrate May Saints and the Monthly Devotion dedicated to Our Blessed Mother Mary and the continued joyful season of Easter! Do you see something you like?
We’ve got a new Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Prayer Card available in the Shoppe!
