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Five Reasons Your Child Should Be an Altar Server is a post by contributing writer Kathryn Whitaker of Team Whitaker. As a convert, I’ve always been drawn to the Mass—its rituals, its words and its mystery. When my oldest turned ten, the parish sent us an invitation and encouraged us to attend altar server training. To be honest, I hadn’t really… Read More
Where did summer go? I know for some of you that don’t start school until September, you probably think that there’s still plenty of summer left. But, since we’ll start back to school in just a couple of weeks, it feels like summer is ending. Since August begins this week, it means that it’s time for the August Activities for… Read More
Cut and Paste Hail Mary Prayer Printable post preview: This post contains a downloadable set of cut and paste activities with two versions of the Hail Mary prayer. The post also contains other Hail Mary activities. While working on learning prayers, it’s fun to work on them in many different ways. Not only does that make it interesting and engaging,… Read More
Last August, I started this project to share a free saints coloring book for each month. It all started with that August Saints Coloring Book. Now we’re finally at the end of the project! It’s time for the final of the free coloring books – the Saints Coloring Book for July. Related Reading: Ten Activities for Catholic Families in July (Free… Read More
I love the different rhythm that our lives get into during the summertime. Sure, we get busy, but I love that we get to have times to sleep late, stay up late, eat lots of local fresh produce, and spend a lot of extra time together. It’s also a great time to work on some faith formation activities at home!… Read More
I can hardly believe it’s June, and yet it’s already more than halfway finished. How did that happen? We have been busy with high school graduation for our oldest, a graduation party, a day at college to register for classes, drama camp for two kids, and dance camp for one of the kids. All of this means that it’s definitely… Read More
