While retail stores may be discounting Christmas decorations and putting up Valentine’s Day displays by December 31, Catholics and many other Christian denominations are just getting started on their Christmas […]
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Your Best Ideas for Celebrating Advent
We asked readers to share their favorite ways to celebrate Advent. Colorful, meaningful, creative, and fun, here are more than 45 of your best ideas…plus reader-submitted photos to go with them!
Halloween is the ‘holy day’ Catholic kids shouldn’t miss
All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween, goes hand-in-hand with the feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Here’s how to celebrate it with your kids.
The Decalogue of Pope St. John XXIII: Daily resolutions for your kids (and you!)
Among the many legacies of St. Pope John XXIII is a joy-filled, practical spirituality…including his Daily Decalogue, a list of ten spiritual goals “only for today.” Here it is, so you can try it with your kids as part of your morning prayer routine.
Make bedtime sacred story time with your kids
Do you read religious bedtime stories to your kids? You can make those stories do double duty by weaving in practices from lectio divina, the ancient way of praying with sacred texts.
