Catholic Home and Garden

November 2009

SITE MAP - Confused about this site?

Me, too. Here's where I started to sort things out - a work in progress. Look for daily updates that pertain to these trying times.

A Catholic Thanksgiving

A Thanksgiving perspective for Catholics including "Giving Thanks for the Hard Things in Life" and a new article: "Loaves and Fishes: Feeding the Multitude (Unless It's Illegal). Also recipes and crafts

Read it all here

Advent: A Season of Hope and Anticipation

The importance of slowing down to pray in the Advent Season.

Customs and Traditions to share with your family and parish. Read More

The Advent Wreath

Learn the history, how to make wreaths, prayers, customs and more. See our all new collection of Advent Wreaths and Candles including many that benefit the monks at the St. Meinrad Abbey.

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The

Catholic

Home

«Why Keep a Catholic Home?

How Catholic bear witness to the faith

«Our Readers Share Their Catholic Homes

Devotional Corners and Gardens from Across the Nation

«Our Mission

What this site is all about

«How We Started

Ten years later, a look back at our beginnings

«Fundraising

Handmade Chapel Veils and Mantillas

Thanks to the overwhelming response, we're almost sold out and have been sewing frantically to supply more. Please check back - we'll have photos up soon.

Prayer Quilts

Works of Art - Works of Faith

As we move towards simpler living, we invite you to rediscover the womanly art of quilting while you pray.

Religious Fabric for Prayer Quilts

True to form, I've been obsessive about finding religious themed fabric - here is part of what I've found with links to where you can find it and what is likely to disappear!

The

Catholic

Garden

«The Catholic Garden

The simple act of gardening as evangelization

«Front Yard and Wayside Shrines

Photos of Shrines from Around the World

«How to Select a Garden Shrine

«Jesus Christ Statues

«Virgin Mary Garden Statues

Affordable Lightweight Statues for Your Garden

Many Different Titles of Mary! Many New Styles

Updated 05/01/09

«Angels in the Garden

«NEW! Saintly Garden Statues

Updated 05/12/2009

«Catholic Community Gardens

«Plan and Plant Your Catholic Garden

Updated 4/21/2009

«Garden Plans

Updated 4/21/2009

«Flower Garden Bargains Freebies

Updated 4/22/2009

« Food Security A Garden Journal

«New! Virgin Mary Garden Statues

Affordable Lightweight Statues for Your Garden

Many Different Titles of Mary!

The Christmas Nativity Scene

Explore the history of the Christmas Creche from ancient to modern times.

Find vintage and new Nativity sets from Thomas Kinkade, Fontanini and more - and your purchase helps the work of Benedictine Monks of Saint Meinrad

Christmas Pageant Skits and Costumes

Some of the most heart warming Christmas pageant skits to celebrate the Birth of the Savior and don't miss out on HUGE sales for Costumes

Luke 2: The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Luke

An visual audio presentation to enjoy with your family during this Holy Season

Prayer Need

Please pray daily, even hourly, that our President will pay attention to our brave military in Afghanistan and either send them help or bring them home

Our Catholic Faith and The Military - Updated resources for those who serve our nation, our veterans and their families as well as for those who pray for them.

All New!

Military

Holy Medals Rosaries

Prayer Books Prayer Cards

Crosses

To Honor

To Comfort

«Find God Wherever You Go

Mass times around the world, shrines

to visit and ideas to enhance your faith

«12 Ways to Find Time to Be Catholic

Making Time to Pray Is Easier Than You Think

DON'T WAIT ANOTHER DAY

Guide to Confession

"The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead."

- St Thomas Aquinas

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What's New In Our Catholic Artifact Shop?

Highlights of this week's hard to find Catholic artifacts offered for sale. Now you can preview a few of the new items available to our readers. Click here to view them.

UPDATE COMING SOON

Modest Clothing for Christian Women

In a seeming backlash to a culture that encourages hyper-sexuality, young women are turning from trashy to classy. New coupon codes and links to clearance sections, modest swimsuits, hats.

Feed the Hungry

Catholic Community Gardens

Social Action for

Our World Today

How to get started

Hold a Seed Swap

Ideas for Parish Fund Raising

Where to Find FREE Seeds

FOOD SECURITY

GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES

You've read about our adventures in community gardening. Now learn how you can provide food for your family and those in need in very small spaces at next to no cost at all. Read More

Wish Me A Merry Christmas Campaign

Keep Christ in Christmas Nativity Car Magnet

Every year friends and strangers ask us, "Where did you get that car magnet?" If you are Catholic and you own a car, this is the symbol you need to display. Buy Now

Great Parish Fundraiser!

With so many attacks on Christmas in recent years, many employees are terrified of wishing you a Merry Christmas for fear of being fired. Let them know it's OK. Buttons and car magnets

The Lights of Christmas

What is the meaning of Christmas Light. Explore Solar Powered and battery powered options. Candle holders for traditional Christmas light

We Need YOUR Help

This website is viewed by thousands of visitors from around the world every week. Help keep us online. Please share this site with anyone you know who might be interested in our products. Thank you and God bless!

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Made in China

Congress passed a law to stop the sale of dangerous Chinese goods like toys with date rape drugs in them. But Catholic Marketing Network and others representing representing over $5 Billion in Christian Gift Sales lobbied to stop them. Read more

NEW! Celebrating Baptism

The wonder of new life is everywhere. Here is a collection of Catholic gifts for that newly Christened soul and mom and dad, too.

The ~~Coming~~ Economic Chastisement

Ways to Make Money When You Have No Job

Updated 2/15/09

Find Free Dental Care and Prescription Drugs

Updated 2/16/09

NEW! Updated 3/3/09

How YOU Can Make Money Online

A Surprisingly Simple Guide for Catholic Parishes and Individuals

In January 2008, after watching the signs for over two years, I began to write about what is broadly perceived as the coming economic chastisement - the imminent collapse of the global economy. I asked readers: "Are we on the verge of another Great Depression? Are we on the brink of TEOTWAWKI?" (The End of the World As We Know It). Many thought I was alarmist - over-reacting.

It's later than you think. It's time to "buckle up" spiritually. Late this spring I was blessed to hear a talk and attend a Mass offered by an American exorcist who was assistant to the well known Father Gabriel Amorth, chief exorcist of Rome. He had a lot to say, but one phrase chilled me to the bone:

"I can count on less than the fingers of one hand the number of years remaining before all hell literally breaks loose."

I've been working on the final version of "The Coming Economic Chastisement" that will be complete with spiritual preparations and it will soon be available. In the meanwhile, here are preview chapters:

«Economic Chastisement«

Introduction

Our Lady of Good Remedy

Prayers for Protection from Islamic Terrorists and

Deliverance from Economic Disaster

The “D” Word

The Depression Your Grandmother Never Knew

Proof in Black and White: News Reports

What to Do–When to Do It How to Do It

Get Educated

Get Your Parish Ready

Where Will You Live?

Finding Work

Utilities: Heat, Light, Water and Oil

Home Security

Seasonal:

Catholic Costumes For All Saints Day

Catholics Coping With Halloween

What to do when demons knock at your door

Recipes for All Souls Day and All Saints Day

Soul cakes, Pan de Muerte, Beans of the Dead, more!

Celebrating All Souls Day

Remembering the dead is more than laying a wreath on a gravestone. It's a practice that might help save your own soul

All Saints Day

Ideas and recipes for celebrating All Saints Day with your children and family

The Saints from Around the Year with the Trapp Family Delightful tour of the season with a Catholic family.

Christmas -Lent - Catholic Gifts

Spiritual Warfare: Dangers of the Occult

A retired US Bishop's dire warning

Does Talk of War Make You Nervous? Are We Entering the End of Days? Waiting for the End of the World a new perspective on our personal end of days.

Spiritual Warfare:

The Occult Has Demonic Influence

What one Bishop has to say about seemingly innocuous entertainment.

«Dressing Modestly

In a seeming backlash to a culture that encourages hyper-sexuality, young women are turning from trashy to classy.

«Adulterers, Thieves, Murderers:

Welcome to Our Home

Danger in your living room How to

protect your family

«Our Picks For The Best In Catholic

Entertainment

«Exploring the Latin Mass

«What to Expect at a Latin Mass

«Two Sides of the Fence

«One Family's Latin Mass Journey

«Motu Proprio Discussion

Which Dioceses are "Tridentine-Friendly"?

«Latin Mass Resources

«Favorite Catholic Websites

«Our Catholic Faith and The Military

«Military Holy Medals Prayer Books

and Crucifixes

«A New Approach to Thanksgiving

«Advent

«Advent Wreaths

«Christmas Traditions

«Christmas ABC eBook

«Holy Water Booklet

«Lent

«Catholic Summertime

The Artifact Archives

Rapidly Vanishing Catholic Artifacts

Newest additions at the top of the list. Devotional objects from the heyday of the culture of Catholicism. Each page is image intensive so please allow time for them to load. View Main Artifact Page to see if we forgot any.

NEW! Holy Water Bottles

and Fonts Now with expanded Hummel section and Holy Water Fonts to buy. An important sacramental of the Catholic Church that too many seem to have forgotten about in the Catholic home.

Here's our popular booklet Holy Water for you to print. (Set your printer to 2-sided printing)

NEW! The Miraculous Infant of Prague The only Virtual Museum of the Infant of Prague with over 100 Infant Statues. Vestments - Crowns - More

Catholic Art

Ranging from tapestries to simple images on wood, sacred art has always found a place in the Catholic home.

Catholic Children's Books

Books with beautiful illustrations reached their pinnacle during the early 1940s.

Crucifixes

If there is a single devotional object that belongs in every Catholic home, it is a Crucifix. Explore the rich variety from standing Crucifixes to the pectoral Crucifixes worn by religious.

Front Yard and Wayside Shrines

It's not a Catholic garden without Mary.

Take a tour of front yard shrines from rural to urban and find inspiration for your Catholic Garden.

Head Vases and Planters

The first page we created. Once a common gift item, these beautiful objects will find many uses in the Catholic home and office.

Holy Cards - The beautiful touchstones of moments in our lives as Catholics from First Holy Communion, Ordination through death.

Miniature Churches

In keeping with our continuing theme of the importance of Catholic play, here is an amazing collection of miniature Churches that we're sure you'll love.

Nun Collectibles