Lent 2018 starts NEXT WEEK!
Are YOU celebrating Valentine’s Day on Pancake Tuesday…because Ash Wednesday is February 14th?
Keep the SAINT in St. Valentine’s Day with our Love Like a Saint Love Quote Cards!
Equipping Catholic Families…for February Saints!
January 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for February 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 February is the Holy Family
Key Feast Days in February:
- World Day of Consecrated Life (February 1)
- St Brigid of Ireland (February 1)
- Presentation of the Lord (February 2) Sock Baby Jesus
- St Blaise (February 3)
- St Veronica (February 4)
- St Agatha (February 5
- St Paul Miki& Companions (February 6)
- St Josephine (February 7)
- St Jerome (February 8)
- St Scholastica (February 10)
- Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11)
- Ash Wednesday (February 14)
- St Valentine (February 14) Keep the SAINT in Saint Valentine!
Love Like a Saint Love Quote Cards Craft Kit
Equipping Catholic Families…for a Prayerful LENT!
January 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Lent is only four weeks away!
Just in case you want to plan ahead, we’ve compiled our Lenten activities and family traditions. Want to make this a particularly prayerful Lent?
We can help!
Paper Chains, Prayer Abacus, Revolving Rosary, Stations of the Cross and Works of Mercy Carousel…just some of the Catholic Craft Kits we have …packed with prayer and our original Kelly Saints illustrations! Hands-on crafts to build up your family prayer!
Recycling Votive Candles
January 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Do you have a few too many tired/well-used/burnt votive candles lying around the house? We did…and we decided to try recycling votive candles! We gave them new life with leftover wax and stubby candles…along with our favorite watercolored Kelly Saints from this craft kit. After having just released our new Lock Screen Prayer Prompts, I think I might need to recycle a couple more votives and adhere these images with Kelly Saints and Prayer Prompts: which is your favorite here?
A New Way to Pray …in 2018?
January 14, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Looking for a NEW Way to Pray in 2018?
Every time I feel frustrated, I’m on the verge of losing patience or getting all resentful, I can use that struggle as a prompt to pray, to surrender, to call out to God, admitting that I need Him now.
Equipping Catholic Families….for Christmas!
December 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families… for Christmas!
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.
Teach Me to Love My Littleness
December 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I’ve found a new inexhaustible source of prompts to remind me to pray. And they’re all in-house. I don’t even need to look as far as the next person for pet peeves or sacrifices. Those pesky feelings of anger, resentment, pride and envy well up while I’m busy trying to get things done.
The near-occasion-of-sin translates into a real-life mad mom moment that just may or may not end well.
The incessant voice of frustration or negativity…confirms that the struggle is real. And maybe, the prevalence, the recurring nature of the struggle…can be used for good.
NEW! A Little Way to Pray
December 11, 2017 by 7 Comments
There’s something new here today and it’s kind of a big deal. If you’ve followed Equipping Catholic Families for a while, you’ll know that we’re always trying to share easy and practical ways to celebrate the Catholic Faith through crafts and activities and family traditions.
NEW! Pocket Prayer Cards
October 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
For a limited time, we’ve included the special double-sided template of Kelly SaintsTM Pocket Prayer Cards in the Prayer-Loom Prayer Book craft kit (PDF)
renovated and re-released this week at Equipping Catholic Families.
Prayer-Loom Prayer Book
October 5, 2017 by Leave a Comment
We’ve expanded the Prayer-Loom Prayer Book Craft Kit!
The Prayer-Loom Prayer Book Craft Kit features 7 pages of prayers and illustrated prayercards, a Faith mentor template to record insights and prayers from loved ones, along with helpful tips and links to make this Heirloom Prayer-Loom Prayer Book a keepsake Sacrament gift and prayer journal.
