Ideas for July Feast Days and Celebrations

Here are some of our favorite traditions for the month of July. This is by no means an exhaustive list, rather it's my way of creating a resource that I plan to revisit each year for myself! I hope you can find it beneficial as well! Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Other Ideas: Prayers:  Chaplet of the Most Precious Blood: Catholic...

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The Good Shepherd's Garden Party: Week 7

Inspired by Jessica and Charlotte we have an Easter tradition in our home of celebrating the entire Easter season with the Garden of the Good Shepherd. The program consists of a daily prayer time in which you add a scripture inspired sticker to your garden. By the end of Easter season your scene is filled with reminders of Jesus, the...

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Journey Across America: Louisiana

This post is part of a 50 state Journey Across America. For information on the basics of this project check out this post. The Books: We began by reading P is for Pelican and then Bean used the information she learned to make a notebook page for her United States scrapbook. I found some Cajun versions of several children's...

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Journey Across America: Ohio

This post is part of a 50 state Journey Across America. For information on the basics of this project check out this post. The Books: We began by reading B is for Buckeye and then Bean used the information she learned to make a notebook page for her United States scrapbook. Picture books for Ohio included Lentil (one of...

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The Good Shepherd's Garden Party: Week 6

Inspired by Jessica and Charlotte we have an Easter tradition in our home of celebrating the entire Easter season with the Garden of the Good Shepherd. The program consists of a daily prayer time in which you add a scripture inspired sticker to your garden. By the end of Easter season your scene is filled with reminders of Jesus, the...

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Solemnity of the Ascension

For the Solemnity of the Ascension today we had a picnic, which is a long standing tradition in many parts of Europe. It's also a bonus if you can have that picnic atop a mountain, because Christ ascended from a mountain. We have a lot of those around here, so that wasn't hard to do. (He's either pretending to be Lewis Meriwether or looking...

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