Find St. Helen and the sacred items she brought back from the Holy Land!

Use this coloring page to celebrate St. Louis IX on August 25th!

Your calendar medallions for the month of August!

A downloadable calendar to use with your August Medallions!

All the saint of the day images for the month of August!

The blessing of herbs is traditionally associated with the feast of the Assumption. This tasty roast can be made with blessed or unblessed herbs and served alongside a fluffy cloud of horseradish whipped cream. I use rosemary, sage, oregano, basil, thyme, parsley, and chives.

These stained glass cookies are reminiscent of the beautiful stained glass windows at San Chapelle, which is why they’re perfect for the feast of St. Louis IX!

There is a tradition that basil grew up around the foot of the cross, where Jesus’ blood and Mary’s tears hit the ground. St. Helen is said to have found the True Cross hidden beneath an overgrowth of basil. So for dinner on the feast of the Holy Cross, I like to make a basil-heavy meal.

Your original 2" calendar medallions for the month of August!

Venerate the cross together as a family for the feast of the Veneration of the Cross, or on St. Helen's feast day on August 18th!

Our family's favorite activity for the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is to read the passages of the Bible that relate to the seven sorrows of Our Lady, while eating sour fruit or candies, and trying NOT to make sour faces!

Any type of tea bag or a combination of teas can be used. Traditional Southern sun tea is usually made with a black tea blend, like Lipton. Herbal teas are also great, though. I’m partial to Raspberry Zinger, myself.

To celebrate the feast we like to remember Matthew’s counting table and have silver dollar pancakes for dinner. This recipe makes great pancakes of any size.

Michaelmas is another of our “featured” family feast days. There’s just so much fun, food, and conversation to be had around the archangels, and specifically about St. Michael’s defeat of the devil.

At the birthday party, I serve blue food, as blue is Mary’s favorite color!

Get it? Because St. Michael has a spear? This recipe works with thin or thick asparagus, just adjust the cooking time as necessary.

These appetizers can be found in the classic 1888 Victorian cookbook Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. I can’t resist them for this feast day! The “angels” are shucked oysters in Mrs. Beeton’s, but other recipes use scallops. We prefer the latter since they’re more readily available. “Devils” are usually pitted prunes, but can also be dates

There is a tradition that basil grew up around the foot of the cross, where Jesus’ blood and Mary’s tears hit the ground. St. Helen is said to have found the True Cross hidden beneath an overgrowth of basil. So for dinner on the feast of the Holy Cross, I like to make a basil-heavy meal.

The surprise is that these sugar cookies get their lovely green color from . . . spinach! You really can’t taste it, honest.

Traditional cream cheese and cucumber tea sandwiches get an open-faced Saint Patrick’s Day twist for a feast day tea party. These can also be made as a traditional closed sandwich.

We love this lemonade for the Assumption and also for the feast of the Holy Cross, which is traditionally associated with basil!

These fun platters can be made to any size, for a few or a crowd. My first exposure to them was when a friend brought a couple to a party we hosted, and they were a bit hit. They can be made with any red/orange/yellow fruits and veggies you prefer.

Meditate on the Sorrows the Virgin Mary endured in the suffering and death of Jesus with this illustrated Servite rosary.

This Holy Cross image is based on a late eighteenth-century carved and painted wooden cross!

Meditate on the generous guidance of Our Lady in times of trouble while coloring this beautiful image of Stella Maris!

Let’s get our finances in order with this monthly budget sheet inspired by Saint Matthew, the one-time tax collector. At Catholic All Year, we love using feast days as an opportunity to teach kids not only prayers and devotions, but also useful life skills!

This prayer was composed by Pope John Paul II and included in Ecclesia in Oceania, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation published in 2001!

The spookiness comes from cutting a ghost shape out of cheese slices and laying it on top of the macaroni and cheese as soon as it comes out of the oven. Very scary. And meat-free.

Oeufs à la coque are traditionally served in a dedicated egg cup with mouillettes (toast fingers) on the side. If you don’t own egg cups, a napkin ring or an inch-and-a-half of a paper towel tube makes an acceptable substitute.

Pope St. John Paul II’s favorite food, famously, is a puffed pastry and custard cream dessert now known as kremówka papieska or “papal cream cake.” Other than that, he was known for eating whatever was placed before him, and not making his food preferences known. I’d like to think that the Polish nuns who did his cooking might have occasionally made him something like this one-pan kielbasa skillet dinner!