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What better way to finish an all-white dinner than with an all-white dessert! Reflect on Mary’s profound purity and humility in between bites of this delicious brownie!

Here’s a fun party game to play on Our Lady’s birthday this year! Gather your family and friends and follow the clues to find Marian items around your home and yard.

Celebrate Our Lady’s birthday with these delicious and naturally dyed chocolate chip cookies!

Participate in one of the oldest liturgical traditions of the Catholic Church with a bonfire to celebrate the Eve of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. Locust and wild honey are optional, but highly encouraged!

Saint Isidore’s guardian angel used to lend him a hand with his farm work so Isidore could go to morning Mass. Perhaps it won’t look quite so dramatic in our own lives, but when we are willing to give God our time, we often notice we are a little extra productive in return!

Place this printable flag with your Crispy Rice Lamb on Holy Thursday! The Agnus Dei lamb is often shown alongside this flag, which symbolizes his victory over death.

On this day we remember many important events from Jesus’ life, recorded in the New Testament, but also the Ten Plagues and the first Passover from the Old Testament. Color this page to learn each of the plagues.

Celebrate an at-home blessing of throats in honor of Saint Blaise. Use blessed candles if you have them!

The Chair of Saint Peter is a relic that the faithful can visit in St. Peter’s Basilica. Tradition says that the interior wooden chair belonged to Saint Peter, the first pope. The exterior is a sculpted gilt bronze casing added in the seventeenth-century. Pope Benedict XVI described the chair as “a symbol of the special mission of Peter and his Successors to tend Christ’s flock, keeping it united in faith and in charity.”

Dutch speculaas cookies are unusually perfect for this feast day, in that they are traditionally made in the shape of St. Nicholas using very beautiful, very intricate hand-carved wooden molds that range in size from a few inches to a couple feet tall. They’re very impressive. They can also be made with regular cookie cutters, or cut out using a St. Nicholas-shaped template. The basic ingredients are simple; what makes them really special is the spices. I like to use cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, mace, white pepper, and cloves. It just smells so much like Christmas.

Growing up in Southern California, Our Lady of Guadalupe has always been familiar to me, as are many other Mexican foods and traditions. As a sweet treat on her feast day, we like to have cookies and champurrada or Mexican hot chocolate (see the CAY July recipe packet). I always make a big batch of these Mexican wedding cookies. My midwestern mother-in-law is the one who first introduced me to them. But she called them snowballs. They are a fun, powdered-sugary treat, and make a great addition to our freezer stash of Christmas goodies that gets saved for 12-days-of-Christmas treats and cookie-plate-gifts.

We know we can always count on Saint Apollonia to intercede for us if we have tooth pain, but why not avoid that entirely by practicing good oral hygiene? Never forget to brush again with this handy tracker.

The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Use this page to write down the names of friends and family members who have passed away, and remember them in your prayers all month long!

Print these outlines to accommodate extra painters for the St. Luke icon painting activity in the October 2023 liturgical box.

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!

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

The story of the Annunciation can be found in Saint Luke’s Gospel, and tells of the Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary in the village of Nazareth. In this humble home, it’s announced that Jesus was to be conceived by the Holy Spirit through the Virgin Mary. As you color, let it be an invitation to deeper prayer and meditation on this joyful mystery!

Irish cream is a liqueur that features whiskey, cocoa, espresso, and vanilla. It makes the perfect addition to your coffee, cocktails, or desserts, and takes a St. Patrick’s Day celebration over the top!

In Swedish “Our Lady’s Day” is “Vårfrudagen,” which sounds a lot like “Våffeldagen” which means “Waffle Day.” So they went for it! But what makes this recipe even better from a traditional waffle is that it’s stuffed with blueberry cheesecake filling. But wait, why blueberry? Because blue is Our Lady’s color and she gave birth to a baby boy, of course! 

The hurricane, which originated in the 1940s at a French Quarter bar called Pat O’Brien’s, is the quintessential New Orleans beverage. Although this is traditionally a rum cocktail, we just do the juice part in our house. But both versions are absolutely delicious! And of course, make sure to serve your drinks in a glass shaped like a hurricane lamp.

Our Fat Tuesday menu is all about celebrating a New Orleans-style Mardi Gras. And you can’t do that without a king cake. Named for the Three Kings aka the Three Wise Men and enjoyed around the world, all the variations are served on or before Fat Tuesday and have something hidden inside to represent the baby Jesus. Depending on where you are in the world, it might be a bean or a nut or a ring, but in New Orleans it’s a little plastic baby Jesus—so that's what we're going to do!

We don’t have any special foods or activities we traditionally use to celebrate today, just a normal dinner, a dessert to celebrate, and a conversation about how much people can change, if they are willing to be open to God’s grace. And how God wants to use us, with all our flaws and imperfections. But, if you’re a planner and want to make something intentional, why not Middle Eastern food, like falafel and a side of hummus!

This recipe is great because it works for Christmas Eve, but can be served on the Immaculate Conception as an appetizer too! As you bite into the creamy white brie and shiny red cranberry, remember the paradise Adam and Eve enjoyed before everything went wrong: listening to bad influences, not trusting God, not obeying rules, lying, blaming others for our bad behavior . . . and remember that even though we all do this stuff, God still has great love for his creation! And we get to celebrate that with the birth of Christ!

Ring in the Catholic New Year with this fun, bubbly treat! Make it alcohol free by using sparkling grape juice or cider instead of champagne.

Make cupcakes that are fit for a queen’s birthday with these cute toppers and wrappers!

When you eat these sour gummies with your family, we recommend handing out seven to each person and then eating one gummy as you read about each of Mary’s seven sorrows from the bible.

Use this checklist on your visit to seven churches on Holy Thursday, as recommended by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Accompany Our Lord by visiting seven altars of repose after the Mass of the Last Supper, or try a modified day version great for younger kids.

St. John of the Cross lived in Spain in the sixteenth century. As we can tell by his name, he had a love for austerity and a great devotion to the crucifixion. While praying one day, he was granted a vision of Christ crucified, in which St. John saw Jesus from above, as God the father would have seen him. For the feast day, I like to add to our Advent cookie stash by making peanut butter kisses. The brown peanut butter cookie reminds us of the wooden cross, and the chocolate kiss on the top is for the particular love St. John of the Cross had for it. I always make at least two batches. We eat a couple each on the day, then the rest go into the freezer to make cookie plates for teachers, friends, and neighbors.

Recite this prayer in honor of the Church Triumphant. Feel free to add all your family’s patron saints. P.S. Shouting “pray for us!” is encouraged.

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

Use this download for the entire month of August!

Traditional Catholic prayers, Bible passages, songs, and devotions for the month of the Blessed Virgin!

Traditional Catholic prayers, Bible passages, songs, and devotions for the month of the Blessed Sacrament!