What are we actually celebrating when we go to Mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception? (Hint: A lot more than you might think.) Here’s a crash course for your kids, and ideas for how to celebrate the feast.
Celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with your kids
Halloween is the ‘holy day’ Catholic kids shouldn’t miss
All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween, goes hand-in-hand with the feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Here’s how to celebrate it with your kids.
30+ ideas for celebrating the feasts of All Saints and All Souls
Halloween has nothing on All Saints’ Day for fun and interesting ways to celebrate. Here are thirty (more or less) ideas that I’ll be trying this year, including a few for All Souls’ Day.
Make it a Catholic Halloween
Here are ten ways to celebrate the victory of grace over darkness and evil this Halloween.
Pope St. John Paul II
Pope Saint John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla in the small Polish town of Wadowice. During World War II, when the Nazis invaded Poland, Karol secretly studied for the priesthood in an underground seminary established by the archbishop of Krakow. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1946. In 1964, Father Karol was appointed archbishop of Krakow; just three years later he was made a cardinal. In 1978, Cardinal Wojtyla was elected Pope, the 264th in the Church’s history. He took the name John Paul II. He began his papacy on Oct. 22 by telling the world, “Be not afraid”; his life showed everyone that to change the world, we must “cast into the deep for a great catch.”
