Living the Seasons: Simple Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Your Faith Throughout the Year
Living the Seasons: Simple Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Your Faith Throughout the Year
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Erica Tighe Campbell, owner and designer of Be A Heart, created this stunning, full-color guide to creatively celebrating the faith throughout the year. Living the Seasons is brimming with clever, doable, and beautiful crafts and activities; vivid photographs; brief introductions to the seasons and the lives of the saints; heartfelt notes of encouragement from Campbell; and original Be A Heart illustrations. This gorgeous companion will become your favorite resource for living your faith at home for years to come.
In Living the Seasons, Campbell offers imaginative ideas, effortless directions, and gorgeous photos of crafts, activities, meals, and snacks for a diverse variety of Catholic feast days, holy days, and seasons in the Church. She uses supplies that can easily be found at your local craft stores, party shops, or online retailers.
You’ll find ways to celebrate all of the Church seasons—Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Triduum, Easter, Ordinary Time—and Holy Days of Obligation in the United States, and feast days for saints from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. And you’ll discover fun ideas and new traditions such as:
- throwing a baby shower for Mary;
- blessing your home in the New Year;
- celebrating Fat Tuesday with King Cake and a piñata;
- living like St. Joseph by spending time in silence and making a wooden baby rattle;
- constructing your own gratitude journal and rosary;
- making art for God, including a salt-dough Trinity wall hanging, an Assumption cloud pillow, and an orange garland for St. Nicholas Day;
- creating edible flower lollipops to remind us of the “Garden of Mary’s womb”; and
- baking “Cookies of Joy” in honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen.
Campbell will help you discover that the liturgical calendar, which follows the seasons of a year in the life of the Church, is a tool that can draw you—individually, as a family, or as a community—closer to God in the midst of a fast-paced and ever-changing world. Along the way, the saints we celebrate teach us that the path to holiness is worthy of pursuing in our own unique way. Their lives can inspire you to listen to how God calls you to follow him as well.
This book is designed to inspire you to celebrate the feast days that speak to you personally. You don’t have to start living liturgically on the first Sunday of Advent—you can begin your journey anytime during the year. You also don’t have to celebrate every feast on a grand scale.
There are projects for all ages and levels of skill—from simple ways to honor a saint’s feast day with your kids to more elaborate celebrations with family and friends.
256 pages
Can't wait to use it with my granddaughter! Wish I would have had it when my girls were little! Never too late!
This book is an excellent and accessible resource for the modern family who wants simple, non-extravagant ways to live liturgically. Nearly every craft/activity/recipe uses common household items. It is homely and child-friendly and beautiful at the same time. My toddler enjoyed the pictures just as much as we did. It is the perfect coffee table AND craft table book. All generations will love it.
We've been using "Living the Seasons" as a Catholic education resource for homeschooling. This beautiful book has provided us with so many fun and hands-on activities for our family - we absolutely love it!
Such a beautiful and well-put-together book! So many tangible ideas to celebrate the faith. I am already gathering materials for this year's projects.
Be A Heart as a whole has beautiful content and a wonderful message. Family time at home is more fulfilling, holy, and joyful with the help of inspiration from Be A Heart. "Living the Seasons" condenses a lot of this inspiration into a manageable and beautiful book that can be returned to year after year for sweet, fun, holy adventures for your family.