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How to Celebrate Holy Week at Home During a Pandemic

April 1, 2020 By Haley 11 Comments

Holy Week is the best time of the year to be Catholic. It’s a tour de force of incredible liturgies. It’s my favorite week of the year and this year...well, it’s going to be different. I’m grieving the loss of our Holy Week Masses. A Holy Saturday without going to the Easter Vigil? Until a pandemic swept the globe it really seemed unimaginable.  But here we are. It’s an Easter for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Christian Year, Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Fasting, Feasting, Good Friday, Lent Tagged With: catholic, christian year, domestic church, holy week, liturgical living, quarantine Easter

Easter Basket Gift Guide and Giveaway!

April 5, 2019 By Haley 7 Comments

GIVEAWAY ENDED (This is a post from 2019 that I'm re-sharing so folks can support these small Catholic businesses.) Lent is drawing to a close and it's time to get geared up for Easter baskets! Our family usually attends the Easter Vigil late on Saturday night. That means wearing our fancy clothes and really hyping up the Mass for our kids: "There's gonna be a fire! We're all gonna get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: Almond Rod Toys, ChewsLife, easter, easter baskets, Giveaway, shining light dolls, studio senn

Liturgical Living at a Glance: April 2019 (Holy Week Resources and More!)

April 3, 2019 By Haley 1 Comment

Activities, Recipes, Books, and more for Holy Week, Eastertide, and April Saints Days!

I’m always trying to figure out how to make it easier for families to observe the Christian Year because we felt so overwhelmed when we first started that journey (which is why we wrote the book we wish we had then).  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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Christian Year, Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Good Friday, Lent Tagged With: Catholicism, christian year, easter, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, holy week, liturgical living at a, liturgical year, palm sunday

Liturgical Living at a Glance: April 2017 (Holy Week and More)

April 4, 2017 By Haley 1 Comment

Activities, Recipes, Books, and more for Holy Week, Eastertide, and April Saints Days!

I’m always trying to figure out how to make it easier for families to observe the Christian Year because we felt so overwhelmed when we first started that journey (which is why we wrote the book we wish we had then).  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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Good Friday, Lent, Saints Tagged With: christian year, easter, eastertide, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, holy week, lent, liturgical calendar, liturgical living at a glance, palm sunday

Last-Minute Easter Basket Ideas (with Discount Codes!)

April 1, 2017 By Haley 14 Comments

Gift Guide (with Discount Codes!) for Last-Minute Easter Basket Fillers!

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. A well-organized blogger would have shared these ideas at the beginning of Lent. But alas, you're stuck with me. But surely there's other folks out there who remember a couple weeks before Easter that Easter baskets are a thing, right? (Just say yes and humor me.) Easter is an important season! So while we definitely don't go nuts with Easter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: catholic gifts for kids, easter, easter baskets, gift guide

New Catholics, Here’s Why I’m So Excited for You

March 29, 2016 By Haley 38 Comments

The Joy of Conversion

The church was dark but I could see the faces of my children illuminated by the light of their candles, lit from the Paschal candle. And my breath caught in my throat at how beautiful it was. This is the night, sang the priest from the Exsultet, an ancient chant only sung once a year, the night before Easter Sunday. We have the ambitious, some might say foolhardy, tradition of bringing our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: Catholicism, conversion, Easter Vigil

Liturgical Living at a Glance: April 2016

March 28, 2016 By Haley 3 Comments

Activities, Recipes, Books, and more for Holy Week, Eastertide, and April Saints Days!

  I’m always trying to figure out how to make it easier for families to observe the Christian Year because we felt so overwhelmed when we first started that journey (which is why we wrote the book we wish we had then).  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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian Year, Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: annunciation, christian year, divine mercy sunday, eastertide, holy days, liturgical living, saints, st. catherine of siena

How to Do Holy Week (And Being Flexible When There Are Kids Involved) {Sponsored}

March 8, 2016 By Haley 88 Comments

How to Do Holy Week (And Being Flexible When There Are Kids Involved)

This post is sponsored by Toadily Handmade Beeswax Candles. See the end of this post for a giveaway of their beautiful candles! I can’t believe how quickly Lent is flying by. Does that mean I didn’t make it hard enough for myself? It’s possible. But that’s the great thing about Lent. You can always take note of how it’s going halfway through and ramp up the penitentialness (is that a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Good Friday, Lent Tagged With: christian year, easter, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, holy week, lent, liturgical calendar, Triduum

Liturgical Living at a Glance: March 2016

March 1, 2016 By Haley 7 Comments

Tons of resources (food, activities, reflections and more!) for observing the Christian Year in March (Saints days, etc!) // Carrots for Michaelmas

Getting this one out just in the nick of time as March begins! Last week was busy because I went out of town for a night to speak at the Catholic student center in College Station (such great students! So much fun! And a big shout out to Martha who drove in from Huntsville--thanks for being there!) and then Sunday morning I got hit with a stomach flu that, thankfully, was quick to resolve itself … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Good Friday, Lent

Liturgical Living at a Glance: April

March 31, 2015 By Haley 18 Comments

Sun-dried Tomato Risotto for St. Catherine of Siena

I’m always trying to figure out how to make it easier for families to observe the Christian Year because we felt so overwhelmed when we first started that journey (which is why we wrote the book we wish we had then).  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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Christian Year, Easter, Faith & Liturgical Living, Good Friday, Lent Tagged With: april, easter, feast, Good Friday, holy week, lent, liturgical living, st. catherine of siena, st. george

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