…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!
Jesse Tree / O Antiphon Calendar 2023
November 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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) Â 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!
May the SAINTS be with You! Saints Days and Devotions for MAY
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Join us to celebrate May Saints, the Monthly Devotion dedicated to Our Blessed Mother Mary and the continued joyful season of Easter! Do you see something you like? Click on the pictures and/or links for easy crafts and already-formatted Catholic Craft Kits that come with permission to copy for home use, year after year!
April Saints and Devotion of The Eucharist!
April 3, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for April 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.
The Monthly Devotion for April is The Eucharist!
We love the Mass! Here are a couple more resources to help us focus at Mass and prepare for the Sacrament of the Eucharist:
Equipping Catholic Families with Lent Craft Kits
February 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment
The Lent Challenge Calendar
The LENT CHALLENGE Calendar Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you GIVE, PRAY and LOVE through the days of Lent (year after year!), with: TWO different sized Calendar templates with lots of options and reminders and easily customized to YOUR FAMILY:
Give+Pray+Love LENT CHALLENGE Calendar PDF Download: $10
February Saints Days!
February 6, 2023 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!
Get Healthy, Pray More, Plan and Live Liturgically
December 31, 2022 by Leave a Comment
It’s that time of year again, our second chance to start the new year (the Liturgical Calendar began with Advent in 2022).
These are the big four resolutions that I’m going to tackle (again) and I’ve included some resource, article and affiliate links that I’ve found helpful.
Equipping Catholic Families for January Saints
December 31, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for January 2023 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.
NEW Saints Day Stamp
Easy addition to your family calendar! Just stamp the new Saint’s Day stamp and customize the saint with vocation accessories, facial features and color!
