Let Your Own Light Shine: Resources for living out and passing on the faith
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This is a place where we'll share fun things that we come across to help you nurture your faith at home. In the Catholic world, we call it building the Domestic Church, since parents are the first teachers of their children and show them how to live out Jesus's message of love everyday.
Mass Resources for familes - at home or in church
Kid's Liturgy Vidoes
Join Miss Heidi in these wonderful videos for children that take kids through the Sunday readings with songs, activities, and explanations. Miss Heidi is from Christ the King Parish, here in South Bend!
Kids' Bulletin Weekly Printable
Download this free printable for kids so they can follow along with the readings while enjoying activities like puzzles, word searches, and coloring scenes.
Act of Spiritual Communion Coloring Project
This is the prayer for Spiritual Communion when you cannot receive Holy Communion. If you are unable to attend Mass, consider creating a beautiful piece for your family to use during Mass at home by printing this and having your kids color it. Display it when you participate in Mass from home.
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Super fun activities for kids & families
- Monthly craft ideas to help children grow in faith, Loyola Press
- Catholic Sprouts: A Daily Podcast for Kids
- What saint is like you? Take the quiz! A fun activity for kids from Tiny Saints
- A Story for Kids: Watch and listen to Bishop Rhoades read God the Father and the Best Day Ever
- Free 3D printables for kids from St. A alum & artist, Stephen Barany
- Angelus Cut and Color Prayer Cards: Print full sheet or 2 to a page
- How Germs Spread: Cool video for kids to help them understand how viruses spread
- Read-Aloud Revival: Awesome resource for families with kids of all ages at home
- Free Coloring Pages from Catholic Family Crate
- Remote Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for Kids, video slideshow with music
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Prayer and devotional resources for families
Catholic Sprouts: A Daily Podcast for Kids
The Catholic Sprouts Podcast has one goal: to plant one little seed of faith each and every day. The daily five minute episodes are perfect for young listeners. Each episode discusses an important aspect of our Catholic Faith in a way that appeals directly to children and ends with a daily challenge to help them apply what they learned.
Hallow App
Praylists, Rosary, Sleep Stories, Lectio Divina, Night Prayer, Meditations, and much more. The Hallow app makes it easy to carve out time to get to know God and yourself better through prayer!
Magnificat & MagnifiKid!
Presented in a day-by-day format, the Magnificat App puts at your fingertips a treasury of beautiful prayers.
3-Minute Retreats
Three minutes can bring peace to your entire day. Daily digital retreats from Loyola Press sent to your email or download the app.
Daily Inspiration from Dynamic Catholic
Start each day with an inspiring quote sent directly to your inbox. These simple yet powerful messages will help you to live each day with passion and purpose. -
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