Browsing Catholic Activities: General (Activity Type)

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• "Boxing" Day

• "Tupa-Tupa" (Knocking) for St. Joseph's Day

• A Children's Party for Twelfth Night

• A Passover Supper On Holy Thursday

• A Russian German Christmas

• Activities for Easter

• Advent and the Year of the Eucharist

• Advent House

• Advent or Mary Candle I

• Advent or Mary Candle II

• Advent Wreath IV

• All About the Angels

• All Hallow's Eve or Halloween Activities

• All Saints' Day in Louisiana

• All Souls' Day ideas for the family

• All Souls' Day: Soulmas

• All Souls, November 2

• Annunciation Day Food Ideas

• Ascension Day, the Final Message from Jesus

• Ascension Liturgy and Customs

• Ascension Thursday Activities

• Ascension Thursday Picnic and Traditions

• Assumption Day

• Assumption, Blessing of Herbs, Wheat, Grapes and Flowers

• A-Thomasing

• August 15: Assumption Day Traditions

• August 30: St. Fiacre

• Background and Customs for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel

• Baptism Customs

• Birthdays

• Blessed Palms in the Home

• Blessing of the Easter Foods

• Bobbing for Apples

• Bonfire for the Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist

• Boxing Day — St. Stephen

• Bread of Angels

• Candlemas Ceremony

• Candlemas Day

• Candlemas in the Home

• Carling or Passion Sunday

• Carnival or Mardi Gras (from Epiphany to Ash Wednesday)

• Catholic Culture's Jesse Tree Overview

• Celebrating Christmas Day at Home

• Celebrating for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Celebrating for the Feast of Pope St. Damasus I

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Ambrose

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Barbara

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. John of the Cross

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Lucy

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Nicholas

• Celebrating for the Feast of St. Peter Canisius

• Celebrating for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

• Celebrating on December 21, the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle (in the 1962 Liturgical Calendar)

• Celebrating Pentecost in the Home

• Celebrating St. Stephen's Day

• Celebrating Thanksgiving

• Celebrating Thanksgiving: Feasts and Customs

• Celebrating the Assumption

• Celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany

• Celebrating the Feast of the Sacred Heart

• Celebrating the Feasts of the Blessed Virgin

• Celebration for the Feast of St. Agnes

• Christ-Candle

• Christ-Guest at Christmas

• Christkindl

• Christkindl Brief or Letter to the Christ Child

• Christmas and the Eucharist

• Christmas Baking and Bread Blessing

• Christmas Candle

• Christmas Crib

• Christmas Eve Celebrations

• Christmas Eve Supper

• Christmas Eve Supper

• Christmas Field Trip

• Christmas Ideas for Young Children

• Christmas in Ireland

• Christmas in the Polish Home

• Christmas Letters to the Christ Child

• Christmas Music and Stories

• Christmas Pie

• Christmas Traditions

• Christmas Tree

• Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed

• Cooking for Christmas

• Corpus Christi Processions

• Crib of St. Francis

• Customs and Traditions for St. Anne, July 26

• Customs and Traditions of June 29, Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

• Customs and Traditions of St. Christopher, July 25

• Customs and Traditions of the Solemnity of the Assumption, August 15

• Customs for the Feast of Corpus Christi

• Customs of St. Stephen's Day

• Customs of the Vigil and Birth of St. John the Baptist

• Customs on the Feast of St. Agatha

• Customs on the Feast of St. Agnes

• Dancing

• Day Eight—Activities for New Year's Day

• Day Eleven—Activities for the Eleventh Day of Christmas

• Day Fifteen — Activities for the Fifteenth Day of Christmas

• Day Five—Activities for the Feast of St. Thomas Becket

• Day Four—Celebrating the Feast of the Holy Innocents

• Day Fourteen—Activities for the Fourteenth Day of Christmas

• Day Nine—Activities for the Feast of St. Basil and St. Gregory

• Day Nineteen—Activities for the Feast of the Baptism of Christ

• Day Seven—Activities for New Year's Eve

• Day Seven—Activities for the Feast of the Holy Family

• Day Seventeen — Activities for the Seventeenth Day of Christmas

• Day Sixteen — St. Francis and the Creche

• Day Ten—Activities for the Optional Memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus

• Day Twelve ~ Activities for the Twelfth Day of Christmas

• Day Two—Activities for the Feast of St. Stephen

• Death and Burial

• Deaths in the Russian German Community

• December 28 - Feast of the Holy Innocents

• Decorating Easter Eggs

• Decorating the Tree

• Devotions for Good Friday

• Distribution of Oblatky

• Easter Breakfast Picnic

• Easter Customs of the Russian Germans

• Easter Eggs Decorations

• Easter Eggs III

• Easter Food Symbolism

• Easter Lamb

• Easter Prayer Practices

• Easter Renewal of Baptismal Vows

• Easter Renewal of Baptismal Vows in the Home

• Easter Sunday in the Home

• Easter Vigil

• Easter: Solemnity of Solemnities

• Ember Days

• Enthronement of Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Enthroning the Crib for Epiphany

• Epiphany Cake Tradition

• Epiphany Feast Suggestions

• Epiphany Home Blessing Ceremony

• Epiphany of Our Lord

• Explanation and Origin of Rogation Days

• Family Chart

• Family Confessions

• Family May Crowning

• Family Procession for a Blessing on the Crops

• Family Procession in Honor of Christ the King

• Farewell to Alleluia

• Feast of All Saints

• Feast of Saint John the Baptist

• Feast of St. Andrew, November 11

• Feast of St. Joseph

• Feast of St. Nicholas

• Feast of St. Stephen

• Feast of the Holy Innocents -- The Youngest's Day

• Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

• Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

• Feast of the Holy Trinity

• Feasts of All Saints and All Souls

• Feasts of Mary in the Family

• Feasts of Our Lady in the Home

• First Holy Communion

• First-Fruits Festival for Assumption Day

• Fun Pretzel Project

• Game of Thanks

• General Roman Calendar of the Liturgical Year

• Good Friday in the Home

• Good Friday in the Home with the Trapp Family

• Gumdrop on a String

• Halloween or All Hallow's Eve Activities

• Halloween Party

• Halloween Traditions in a Catholic Light

• Halloween, All Saints and All Souls

• Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls

• Handkerchief Game

• History of Corpus Christi Processions

• History of St. Patrick's Day

• History of the Feast of Corpus Christi

• Holy Cross Day

• Holy Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia

• Holy Saturday Festivities

• Holy Saturday with the Slovaks

• Holy Thursday Activities in the Home

• Holy Thursday in the Home with the Trapp Family

• Holy Thursday Meal in the Home -- Remembering the Last Supper

• Holy Week in the Catholic Tradition

• Home Concerts

• Home Easter Vigil

• Housecleaning for Holy Week I

• Housecleaning for Holy Week II

• Immaculate Conception

• In the Home: Ember Days (September)

• Influence of St. Francis on the Christmas Crib

• Irish Christmas Candles

• Irish Hospitality

• Jesse Tree Symbols

• Jesse Tree, Day 1 — Creation

• Jesse Tree, Day 2 — Adam and Eve

• Jesse Tree, Day 10 — Moses

• Jesse Tree, Day 11 — Joshua

• Jesse Tree, Day 11a — Samuel

• Jesse Tree, Day 12 — Ruth

• Jesse Tree, Day 13 — Jesse

• Jesse Tree, Day 14 — King David

• Jesse Tree, Day 15 — King Solomon

• Jesse Tree, Day 16 — Micah

• Jesse Tree, Day 16a — Elijah (or Elias)

• Jesse Tree, Day 17 — Isaiah

• Jesse Tree, Day 17a — Jonah

• Jesse Tree, Day 18 — Judith

• Jesse Tree, Day 19 — Daniel

• Jesse Tree, Day 20 — Zechariah (Zachariah)

• Jesse Tree, Day 21 — Elizabeth

• Jesse Tree, Day 22 — St. Joseph

• Jesse Tree, Day 23 — Blessed Virgin Mary

• Jesse Tree, Day 24 — John the Baptist

• Jesse Tree, Day 3 — Fall of Man

• Jesse Tree, Day 4 — Noah

• Jesse Tree, Day 5 — Abraham

• Jesse Tree, Day 5a — Sarah

• Jesse Tree, Day 6 — Melchizedek (Melchisedek)

• Jesse Tree, Day 7 — Isaac

• Jesse Tree, Day 8 — Jacob

• Jesse Tree, Day 9 — Joseph

• Jesse Tree, Option 1 - The Annunciation

• Jesse Tree, Option 2 - The Visitation

• Johannesfeuer

• July 16: Commemoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

• July 4: Independence Day

• June 29: Feast of Saint Peter

• June 8: Feast of Saint Medard

• Kings' Party or Twelfth Night Party

• Lammas or Loaf Mass Day, Thanksgiving for Grain Harvest

• Las Posadas II

• Las Posadas III

• Lenten Customs of the Russian Germans

• Lenten Pretzel

• Lenten Sacrifice Beans

• Lenten Scrapbook

• Letter to the Christ Child

• Letter to the Christ Child

• Life and Legend of St. Nicholas

• Liturgy of Easter Sunday and the Octave of Easter

• Making Pilgrimages

• Martinmas Traditions

• Martinmas: Clothing the Naked

• Mary Candle I

• Mary Candle II

• Mary Shrines and the Angelus

• May 19: Feast of St. Ives

• May, the Month of Mary

• Memory Book

• Mince Pies and Holly

• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week in the Home

• Mothering Sunday

• Nameday Celebration for St. Francis of Assisi

• Nameday Celebration Prayers and Ideas for St. Angela Merici

• Nameday Ceremony for St. Therese of the Child Jesus

• Nameday Ideas for Bishop Saints

• Nameday Ideas for St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr

• Nameday Ideas for the Birth of Mary

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Andrew, the Apostle

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Barbara, Virgin and Martyr

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Frances Xavier

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Gertrude the Great

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila

• Nameday Ideas for the Feast of the Visitation

• Nameday Ideas for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

• Nameday Notes for John

• Namedays

• Namedays

• Nativity of Mary

• New Clothes for Easter

• New Fire of Easter

• New Year's Day Ceremony

• New Year's Day, Honoring Godparents

• New Year's Eve Activities

• New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

• New Year's Eve Family Celebration

• New Year's Eve Party

• New Year's Family Resolutions

• New Year's Visit

• No. 13: St. Matthias

• November 11: St. Martin of Tours

• O Antiphon Days

• October 31 — Halloween

• Oplatek, Old Polish Custom

• Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas

• Our Lady's Thirty Days

• Palm Burning Procession for Ash Wednesday

• Palm Sunday Festivities

• Palm Sunday Procession in the Home

• Palm Sunday Procession with the Family

• Palms and Ashes

• Party for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Paschal Candle as a Centerpiece

• Patron Saints and Namedays

• Pentecost Picnic

• Pentecost Tree

• Polish Wigilia

• Pope St. Clement

• Popular Customs and Traditions of Maundy Thursday

• Portuguese Names

• Praying for the Dead and Gaining Indulgences During November

• Pre-Christmas Syrian Party in Honor of St. Barbara

• Pre-Lent and Carnival

• Pre-Lent: Carnival Celebration

• Pre-Lent: Man and Nature

• Prepare for Death

• Preparing for Heaven

• Preparing the Christmas Gifts

• Preparing the Manger

• Pretzels for God: Lent and the Pretzel

• Procession for the Feast of All Saints

• Put Christ Back in Christmas

• Quotations Game

• Rabbits, Ember Days and First Fruits

• Reading Aloud

• Reflections on Palm Sunday

• Renewal of Baptismal Promises

• Revering His Holy Name

• Rogation Days: Cross Days

• Russian German Marriage Customs

• Sacramentals and Blessings

• Sacred Triduum in the Home

• Sacrifice Beads

• Saint Ann, Grandmother of Jesus

• Saints Peter and Paul

• Saints Peter and Paul

• Santa Claus

• Shrouding of Statues and Crucifixes

• Sing Alongs

• Slovak Mardi Gras

• Slovakian Easter Custom

• Slovakian Generous Supper

• Snap Apples

• Spiritual Crib

• Spring Cleaning

• St. Andrew

• St. Ann and Joachim

• St. Anne's Day

• St. Barbara

• St. Barbara Branch or Barbarazweig

• St. Barbara, December 4

• St. Barbara, Saint of Advent

• St. Barbara's Twig or Barbarazweig

• St. Brigid of Ireland

• St. Catherine of Alexandria

• St. Columba Oat Cakes

• St. Columba, Abbot

• St. Elizabeth's Bread

• St. Ives

• St. John Paul II on Modesty

• St. John the Baptist's Day

• St. John the Evangelist

• St. John's Eve

• St. John's Eve Bonfire

• St. John's Wine

• St. Joseph's Oil

• St. Lucia Devotions

• St. Lucy and the Christmas Wheat

• St. Lucy Party (For Girls)

• St. Lucy's Day

• St. Martha in the Kitchen

• St. Martin of Tours and Armistice Day (November 11)

• St. Nicholas

• St. Nicholas Day Ideas

• St. Nicholas Day Party

• St. Nicholas Festivities

• St. Nicholas' Visit

• St. Paul's Day, St. Paul's Cathedral, London

• St. Peter

• St. Simon Stock, Traditional Feast May 16

• St. Stephen's Day

• St. Stephen's Day Customs

• St. Valentine's Day, Saint Exchange

• St. Vitus, June 15

• St. Walburga

• St. Zita, the Little Cook

• Stir-Up Sunday - First Sunday in Advent

• Story of St. Barbara for Children by Joan Windham

• Story-Telling

• Story-Telling

• Sts. Simon and Jude

• Sunday Table Discussion

• Swedish Lucia Feast

• Symbolic Lights and Fires of Christmas

• Table for Prioritizing the Liturgical Calendar for 2018-19

• Teaching Moments for the Feast of the Annunciation

• Thanksgiving and Martinmas

• The Annunciation

• The Birth of Saint John the Baptist

• The Christmas Tree

• The Exchange of Gifts

• The Family Retreat

• The Farmer's Sacramentals

• The Feast of Mercy

• The Feast of the Assumption Customs and Traditions

• The Greater Litanies on the Major Rogation Day

• The Image of the Divine Mercy

• The Medal or Cross of St. Benedict

• The Parental Blessing

• The Passover Meal: 5. Traditional Passover Prayers

• The Passover Meal: 6. The Questions

• The Passover Meal: 7. Hallel: Psalms of Praise

• The Passover Meal: 8. The Concluding Hallel

• The Role of Godparents in Italy

• The Role of Woman as Mother

• The Seder Meal as a Christian Home Celebration: Preparing and Celebrating the Holy Thursday Meal

• The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• The Time Of Easter or Eastertide

• The Veneration of Saints

• The Visitation

• Timely Hints for the Family's Lenten Observance

• Traditions of September 29: Michaelmas Day

• Traditions related to Palm Sunday

• Training: A Mother to Her Son

• Treasure Hunt

• Tuesday-Before-Ash-Wednesday Procession

• Valentine Game

• Visit of St. Nicholas

• Visiting Day

• Visiting the Cemetery

• Weather Saints

• Welcoming a New Baby in Italy