Living the Seasons: Simple Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Your Faith throughout the Year

Winner of a second-place award in the lifestyle books category and a third-place award for design and production from the Catholic Media Association. Erica Tighe Campbell owner and designer of Be A Heart created this stunning full-color guide to creatively celebrating the faith throughout the year. Living the Seasons is brimming with clever doable and beautiful crafts and activities; vivid photographs; brief introductions to the seasons and the lives of the saints; heartfelt notes of encouragement from Campbell; and original Be A Heart illustrations. This gorgeous companion will become your favorite resource for living your faith at home for years to come. In Living the Seasons Campbell offers imaginative ideas effortless directions and gorgeous photos of crafts activities meals and snacks for a diverse variety of Catholic feast days holy days and seasons in the Church. She uses supplies that can easily be found at your local craft stores party shops or online retailers. Youll find ways to celebrate all of the Church seasonsAdvent Christmas Lent the Triduum Easter Ordinary Timeand Holy Days of Obligation in the United States and feast days for saints from Europe Asia Africa Australia and the Americas. And youll discover fun ideas and new traditions such as: throwing a baby shower for Mary; blessing your home in the New Year; celebrating Fat Tuesday with King Cake and a piata; living like St. Joseph by spending time in silence and making a wooden baby rattle; constructing your own gratitude journal and rosary; making art for God including a salt-dough Trinity wall hanging an Assumption cloud pillow and an orange garland for St. Nicholas Day; creating edible flower lollipops to remind us of the Garden of Marys womb; and baking Cookies of Joy in honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Campbell will help you discover that the liturgical calendar which follows the seasons of a year in the life of the Church is a tool that can draw youindividually as a family or as a communitycloser to God in the midst of a fast-paced and ever-changing world. Along the way the saints we celebrate teach us that the path to holiness is worthy of pursuing in our own unique way. Their lives can inspire you to listen to how God calls you to follow him as well. This book is designed to inspire you to celebrate the feast days that speak to you personally. You dont have to start living liturgically on the first Sunday of Adventyou can begin your journey anytime during the year. You also dont have to celebrate every feast on a grand scale. There are projects for all ages and levels of skillfrom simple ways to honor a saints feast day with your kids to more elaborate celebrations with family and friends. Find all of the project templates referenced in the book on the Be a Heart website.