Today, we join Pope Francis as he consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary!
We’ve got a Prayer Card with our own original artwork and this prayer:
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
full of love for God and mankind,
and of compassion for sinners,
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary ~ NEW Original Prayer Card
March 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
NEW Craft Kit! It’s been in the works for over a decade!
February 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Gospel Graces: Prompts to Pray through LENT
Actually, way back in 2008, I began a project of illustrating the Sunday Gospel Readings! I got through most of Cycle A and then got distracted with other Craft Kits, Quizzing Cards and Books. Through my Prompt Me to Pray through the Seasons booklets I released last year, I became reacquainted with these illustrations and decided to pull together:
Equipping Catholic Families for January Saints 2022!
January 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for January 2021 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.
- 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)
- Epiphany of the Lord (January 2) Felt Kings Tutorial
- 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)
- 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 10) and await the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd.
Equipping Catholic Families…for December Saints Days and Advent Activities!
November 29, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for December Saints!
It’s December in a few days and it’s ADVENT already!
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!
Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Christmas
November 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Prompt Me to Pray through ADVENT is a 16 page 8.5″x5.5″ booklet that introduces a practical plan for more consistent prayer from the heart, particularly during the Liturgical Season of Advent. Particular experiences and circumstances within these four weeks before Advent can be associated with opportunities to pray. This booklet offers prayers as well as prayer journal prompts to make the most of Advent and the early celebration of Christmas, to dig deeper into prayer as we prepare our hearts for the Arrival of Jesus.
September Saints Days and Catholic Crafts (and Back to School!)
August 31, 2021 by Leave a Comment
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!
Up here in Canada, we are just getting Back to School…so we’re launching a Back to School Special (code: craftkitbacktoschool2021 ) in the Arma Dei Shoppe to cheer that up!
Spend $25 on Cathletics Craft Kit PDFs and get $5 OFF*
*Special SALE applies to the purchase of PDF craft kits only. Sale ends September 15th.
Books, cards, journal stamps not included within the $25 minimum purchase.
2021 July Saints Days
July 5, 2021 by Leave a Comment
We’ve put together a quick summary of Catholic Crafts for July Saints and the Monthly Devotion of The Precious Blood of Jesus.
A video about the #1 Most Impressive Eucharistic Miracle by Fr. Mark Goring
JUNE Catholic Crafts and Saints Days!
June 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Monthly Devotion of June: Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Woven Heart Craft (with video tutorial)
- Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart Journal Stamps
Key Feast Days in June:
- St Justin (June 1)
- St Peter, St Marcellinus (June 2)
- St Charles Lwanga & Companions (June 3)
- St Boniface (June 5)
- St Norbert (June 6)
- CORPUS CHRISTI Solemnity (June6)
NEW! Cathletics Key Card Craft Kit: Trinity Pack!
- Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces (June 8) Mary Crafts
- St Ephrem (June 9)
- Mary, Mother of the Church (June 10)
- St Margaret of Scotland (June 10)
- St Barnabas (June 11)
- St Anthony of Padua (June 13)
- St Basil the Great (June 14)
- Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 11) Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart (Review)
- St Romuald (June 19)
- Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 12) Immaculate Heart of Mary Rosary Abacus
- Fathers Day (June 20)
- 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.
Prompt Me to Pray through the Seasons!
April 15, 2021 by Leave a Comment
SET of FOUR printed Prompt Me to Pray Booklets
available for a limited time at 40%OFF
(limited quantities)
$41 $25 plus shipping within US and CANADA
Prompt Me to Pray through ADVENT is a 16 page 8.5″x5.5″ booklet that introduces a practical plan for more consistent prayer from the heart, particularly during the Liturgical Season of Advent. Particular experiences and circumstances within these four weeks before Advent can be associated with opportunities to pray. This booklet offers prayers as well as prayer journal prompts to make the most of Advent and the early celebration of Christmas, to dig deeper into prayer as we prepare our hearts for the Arrival of Jesus.
Easter Crafts, Activities and Traditions!
April 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Alleluia! He has Risen!
This is our summary post of sustainable celebration for all 50 days of Easter including non-chocolate surprises and treats for plastic eggs and awesome Catholic crafts and family traditions, but first things first…did you know that we’ve released
Prompt Me to Pray through Easter as a PDF and as a printed booklet shipped to you?
