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FREE 2025 Lenten Guide

Download our FREE Lenten Guide that includes ideas to do each week of Lent and ways to celebrate feast days throughout Lent. It also includes things to do for Holy Week!  We also have a coloring s...

Simple Ways to Celebrate Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

The Tuesday before Lent has many names and is celebrated in different ways around the world. The first word in “Shrove Tuesday,” for example, means “to confess,” as it was customary to go to Confes...

Ideas for Lent for those in Survival Mode

I can't believe Lent is already beginning next week. As a mom to little ones, I am always wondering how else I could possibly add another sacrifice to my life when I'm already running on so little....

2024 Mary on the Mantel Calendar

6 Simple Ways to Celebrate Our Lady of Fatima

The Feast of Our Lady Of Fatima is on May 13th! Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. She revealed herself as our lady of the rosary, and visited the ...

5 Ways to Celebrate Blessed Carlo Acutis

Blessed Carlo Acutis was an Italian Catholic teenager known for his devotion to the Eucharist and his passion for using technology to spread the faith. He was born on May 3, 1991, in London, Englan...

9 Ways to Celebrate Saint Francis of Assisi

October 4th marks the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi! Saint Francis was born into a noble family and had every intention of living forever in luxury until he began receiving special visions f...

5 Ways to Celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

The feast day of beloved Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is celebrated on October 1. Born in 1873 in Alençon, France, she is the youngest daughter of Saints Zélie and Louis Martin. At the age of 15, she b...

Throw A Little Flower Dinner Party

Last year for the release of my book, Living the Seasons, I threw a dinner party for friends of mine who I knew from various parts of my life. I wanted to celebrate the hard work that went into th...

4 Simple Ways to Celebrate the Assumption of Mary

The Feast of the Assumption of Mary is celebrated each year on August 15th. On this holy day of obligation, we celebrate Mary's body and soul being lifted up to heaven. This assumption into heaven ...