Happy New Year! As Anne would say: “isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” It is the same for this new year! It has no mistakes in it yet! How truly refreshing and enticing. Let’s lay the foundation for our best year yet! At the…
The waiting is over, we have welcomed our King and now we celebrate His Incarnation. The Christmas season is one of the most joyous seasons in the Catholic Church. How can we live it well and keep Christ at its center?This is the second post on the living the Liturgical Year well. The first post…
The Night of Las Posadas is one of our favorite Christmas picture books that we have turned into a tradition. We read it every year, on December 16th. We love the beautiful story of the miracle that might have taken place on a snowy December 16th near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tradition This is a…
Happy new Liturgical Year to all my fellow Catholics! We are less than a week away from Advent and the beginning of a great liturgical season. It always seems easy for me to follow the Liturgical Year during Advent and Christmas, but the rest of the year does not seem so easy… So this liturgical…
Advent and Christmas Picture Books and Traditions I always feel a little disgruntled that Thanksgiving and the first Sunday of Advent are the same weekend! It’s just so much goodness in such a short time! I always want to enjoy the last little bit of fall a little longer, but Thanksgiving is the death knell…
I LOVE saints picture books! They are the best kind of picture books! Unfortunately there are not many of them for single saints. But thankfully there are quite a few with a compilation of many saints. I do not use them very much in A Daily Picture Book Liturgical Monthly Booklists, because I am trying…
