A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families is a 304 page book offering ideas for activities, crafts and recipes to help families celebrate the various Seasons and Feast Days of the year.
With fun-filled activities, we can build our own family traditions while passing on the richness of our Catholic Faith. Guided by the Liturgical Calendar, the book journeys through the Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter and the 2 spans of Ordinary Time. The months of the secular calendar are woven in, providing the context for Feasts and monthly Devotions. Saints are introduced as their Feast Days occur, offering details and legends about their lives and providing suggestions for family activities surrounding them.
Various sections within Ordinary Time suggest that this time can be anything but ordinary! A section entitled “Extraordinary Events in Ordinary Time” offers activities surrounding special events in family life (births, moving, Sacraments and “firsts”).
A section entitled “Everyday in Ordinary Time” offers ideas for installing other family rituals to bring the family together and integrate the Catholic Faith into daily living.
The summer months bring “Cathletics” to Ordinary Time, offering activities to pass on basic catechism, while another section introduces simple prayers for children.
Suggested activities are intended to prompt families to actively practice their Faith, delving into Church celebrations and allowing these festivities to spill back into home life.
Select from 6 already-researched and formatted templates for Catechism and Prayer based activities and crafts. Limited permission to photocopy for single home or one classroom for one term.
Advent & Lent Quest 40 days worth of activities for Lent or Advent printed on strips to create a paper chain
Catechism Catcher classic folded craft, packed with Catechism terms & graphics for quizzing activity or reference tool
Color Me Catholic 4 mini-booklets, each offering 8 coloring pages of treasured Vessels & Vestments & Sacramentals plus phrases from the Mass
Prayer Bank create a book with folders to hold collection of prayers (29 sample prayer cards included)
Catechism Cube 3D cube, packed with Catechism terms and graphics for a quizzing tool or classroom decoration
Catholic Lingo Bingo has a set of bingo cards displaying different vessels and vestments and sacramentals. It can also be used as a matching game.
Cathletics Playing Cards 59 playing cards with a flash card feature, with face cards and suits tailored to reflect the Trinity and the Holy Family, and numbered cards presenting information from our rich Catechism and Tradition.
Cathletics Key Cards
Select from 18 self-quizzing, laminated cards with Key Card Spinning Flap, each packed with information of a particular theme within the Catholic Faith.
ALTAR SERVERS: Roles, Duties, Prayer, Corporal, Pall, Host, Paten, Purificator, Chalice, Patron Saint of Altar Servers, Order of Mass
ANGELS: 9 Choirs, 7 Guardian Angels’ Duties, 3 Archangels and 22 examples of Angelic Intervention in Scripture
BIBLE: all 72 books of the Bible, organized into groups for easier memorization, plus the Stations of the Cross
BIBLE HEROES: 18 Patriarchs / Leaders, 18 Prophets, 13 Women of the Old Tastament, 12+1 Apostles, 10 Women of the New Testament, 10 of the First Evangelists, 4 Gospel EvangelistsTHE
CHURCH: 7 Sacraments, 4 Marks of the Church (defined), 3 Duties of the Bishops, 3 States of the Church, 3 Bonds of Unity
CONFIRMATION: 5 Effects of Confirmation, Sacred Chrism (what is it)
“Be Sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit”, 7 Gifts, 12 Fruits
DAILY PRAYERS: Morning Offering, Memorare, St. Michael Prayer, St. Gertrude Prayer, Evening Prayer
FOUNDATION PRAYERS: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father, Grace before Meals, Angel of God, Act of Contrition
HOLY COMMUNION: 5 Fruits of Holy Communion, 3 Meanings of the Sacramental Sacrifice, text receiving Communion “Body of Christ” “Amen”, “Blood of Christ” “Amen” Prayer before Communion, Prayer after Communion
THE HOLY SPIRIT: 12 Fruits, 9 Charisms, 7 Gifts, 5 Mysteries of the Chaplet of the Holy Spirit, Prayer to the Holy Spirit
MARY: 7 Sorrows, 5 Joys, Mary speaks in the Bible (7 times), 3 Roles of Mary
15 Marian Feasts, 12 of the most famous Marian Apparitions
MASS: Penitential Rite, Glory to God, Profession of Faith, Holy, Holy, The Lord’s Supper (Take this, all of you…), Memorial Acclamation, Breaking of the Bread (Lamb of God), Communion (Lord, I am not worthy…)
MYSTERIES OF FAITH: Holy Trinity, Incarnation, Eucharist, Paschal Mystery, Ascension, Pentecost, 2nd Coming, Immaculate Conception, Assumption
PATRON SAINTS: Safety Saints, Crisis Saints, Family Saints, Network Saints, Medical Kit Saints
RECONCILIATION: Examination of Conscience, Act of Contrition, General format of Confession
ROSARY: I believe in God…, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be, O my Jesus prayers,
5 Joyful Mysteries, 5 Sorrowful Mysteries, 5 Glorious Mysteries and 5 Luminous Mysteries and a 10-bead margin illustration on one side of the card to keep track of prayers as they are said.
RULES TO LIVE BY: 10 Commandments, 8 Beatitudes, 7 Virtues, 7 Spiritual Works, 7 Corporal Works, 6 Precepts of the Church
VESSELS & VESTMENTS: Holy Water Font, Cruets, Chalice, Paten, Ciborium, Thurible, Monstrance, Sanctuary Lamp, Tabernacle, Alb, Cincture, Stole, Chasuble, Cassock, Surplice
Two Journals in one! The first section of the Faith Journal traces the teaching and celebration
of the seven Sacraments and the Catholic Faith. The second section of the Faith Journal (“Heart to heart with Jesus”) offers thought provoking questions and reflections on life and a growing relationship with Jesus.
This hardcover, concealed coil book is packed with prompting reflections and questions, tracing the child’s Catholic journey of Faith: the celebration of the Sacraments, the growing knowledge of the Catholic Faith through Catechism and Tradition and the child’s deepening personal relationship with Jesus.
Catechism references are included to look up specific questions, although there is a complete answer key in the back of the book for Catechism based questions.
These kits teach and celebrate the Sacraments. Each kit comes with permission to photocopy for one full class for one term.
The square templates can be cut to fit into an 8”x8” constructed or store-bought scrapbook or folded according to the enclosed instructions for an ACCORDIAN BOOK. Coloring and scrapbooking techniques are recommended to embellish the layouts.
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions to help teach and celebrate all 7 Sacraments.
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions tracing the preparation for and celebration of First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions tracing the preparation for and celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation.
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