It’s HERE! It’s finally here! Our new ebook, More Feasts! Celebrating Saints and Seasons with Simple Real Food Recipes is available for purchase this Advent season. 10 new recipes! Reflections on Advent and Holy Week and a few activities to do with children to bring the liturgical year into the home. We are so excited to share it with you!
And just for Advent, our first ebook Feast! is on sale for $4.99 (usually $7.99). Happy Advent from the Stewarts!
We’ll be celebrating the new book with a blog tour featuring some of my favorite bloggers beginning over at A Knotted Life on December 3rd!
And now for this month’s liturgical living post! ( I thought it might be helpful for our family to have resources compiled for the month ahead so that we can plan in advance which special saints days we want to observe and I hope having them all in one place is helpful to you, too.)
I love Audrey Eclectic’s simple printable December 2014 liturgical calendar you can download here.
And I pinned all of the following resources on a December Liturgical Living pinterest board for your convenience!
As always, remember not to get overwhelmed. You don’t have to observe every saints day! (We certainly don’t at our house.) The liturgical year is a gift. It shouldn’t feel like a burden!
The Season of Advent (November 30th-December 24th):
- Begin the St. Andrew Christmas Novena and pray it 15 times from November 30th to Christmas Day. I made a printable you can download for free.
- Superstition, Trust, and Imperfect Prayer: Thoughts on the St. Andrew Christmas Novena: Amongst Lovely Things
- Light your Advent Candles
- How We Celebrate Advent: Carrots for Michaelmas
- DIY Advent Countdown Craft: Two Os Plus More
- My Eco-Friendly DIY Advent Wreath: Becoming Peculiar
- Advent: Nourish Your Spiritual Life and Avoid the Holiday Burnout: Kitchen Stewardship
(You can find more resources for observing Advent in Feast! and More Feasts!)
Advent Music:
- Advent Playlist: Wonder: Carrots for Michaelmas
- Advent Playlist: Sleepers, Wake!: Carrots for Michaelmas
Book Suggestions:
27 Picture Books for Advent and Christmas: Carrots for Michaelmas (updated)
And we’re doing Holy Heroes Advent Adventure with our oldest this year:
December 6th: St. Nicholas
Faith and Little Ones:
- New Shoes and St. Nicholas Day: Carrots for Michaelmas
Celebrating Around the Table:
- St. Nicholas Spice Cookies: Kitchen Stewardship
- Dutch Speculaas Cookies: Life Your Way
Book suggestion:
The Legend of St. Nicholas by Demi
December 8th: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Don’t forget it’s a Holy Day of Obligation, so get thee to Mass!
December 12th: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Celebrating Around the Table:
- Make Carnitas to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe! (Find our recipe in our new cookbook, More Feasts!)
Book Suggestion:
Our Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie dePaola
December 13th: St. Lucy
Celebrating Around the Table:
- St. Lucia Bread: Catholic Playground
Book Suggestion:
Lucia Saint of Light by Katherine Bolger Hyde
December 25th: Christmas (Beginning of Christmastide)
- Our Twelve Days of Christmas: Carrots for Michaelmas
And we love this coloring book by Holy Heroes.
Do you have any special traditions for holy days in December? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!
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Congratulations on your e-book release, Haley!
Thanks, Elise!
Thanks for putting together this awesome list! Do you know the brand of your nativity set cookie cutters or where you purchased them from?
They were hand-me-downs, Emalee so I don’t know the brand or where they were originally purchased. Sorry!
Here is one that I’ve been considering: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000507JM/ref=ox_sc_imb_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
I love St. Lucia Buns! I can’t wait for the 13th to come so we can make these early in the morning. We might even make a candle wreath for Juliana this time. I used a recipe from King Arthur Flour – can’t go wrong with them! http://missyvanee.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-snowy-saturday.html
Love that!
Congrats on the new book, and thanks SO MUCH for all the great info. It’s been a whirlwind of an autumn, and I feel like I’ve had no time to prepare for Advent. All these resources you’ve provided give me such relief!!!
Thanks, Erin! And I’m so glad these are helpful resource posts. I think next year I’ll be way more prepared as a result!
Dang, now I want sushi:P
Congrats on the book!
Haha! Thanks, Eva!
Do you plan to make this book available for Kindle? I just have a desktop far away from the kitchen so PDF is pretty inconvenient. But I really enjoyed your first book and would really like this one as well.
Hi Anna! We actually have formatted the original book, Feast! for Kindle as part of the Ultimate Bundle Sale, but I haven’t uploaded it to the sales page since then. I’ll try to get on that soon! We won’t be making More Feasts! available for kindle any time soon, but the kindle app should allow you to read it as a PDF. I actually use the kindle app on my phone b/c I don’t have an e-reader! And the first book is in print, too.
First, I just want to say thanks for posting these “Liturgical Living” ideas – love them! I am hoping to use some of these ideas mixed with my preschoolers “school” this coming year (part of my resolutions). I was wondering where you find these ideas. I wanted to get a jump on January before all the festivities and traveling begin.
I just got your fist book, by the way!! SO EXCITED to use it!! Can’t wait for Friday’s mail! Thanks again!
Oh, and LOVE the podcast!!!
Oh yeah – forgot to ask! Is your 2nd Feasts book available in print? Thanks!
Hi Heather! I just kind of take a look at what feast days are happening for that month, wrack my brains for anything good I’ve seen for them and search the archives of some of my favorite blogs, then I’ll check pinterest 🙂 Oh yay! Thank you! And the 2nd Feast book isn’t available in print. Just ebook for now 🙂
So, as a follow-up to Heather’s question, are you intending to bring out your second Feasts book in print at some undisclosed time in the future?
Hi Katherine, we’re not sure exactly what will happen, but we don’t have any plans to put More Feasts in print. We’re actually thinking about combining the two books into a second edition print version sometime next fall, but it’s not for sure.