Living the Seasons

By Erica Tighe Campbell

Product Code: 9781646802319

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

Be A Heart owner and designer Erica Tighe Campbell designed this magnificent, full-color guide to artistically celebrate the religion throughout the year. Living the Seasons is overflowing with creative, accessible, and lovely crafts and activities; vibrant images; short introductions to the seasons and saints' lives; sincere messages of encouragement from Campbell; and original Be A Heart artwork. For years to come, this lovely companion will be your go-to resource for living your religion at home.

In Living the Seasons, Campbell provides inventive ideas, simple instructions, and beautiful photographs of crafts, activities, meals, and snacks for a wide range of Catholic feast days, holy days, and seasons. She employs materials that are readily available at craft stores, party supply stores, and online vendors.

All of the Church seasons—Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Triduum, Easter, Ordinary Time—and Holy Days of Obligation in the United States are covered, as well as feast days for saints from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. You'll also come across some amusing concepts and new customs, such as:

throwing a baby shower for Mary;
blessing your home for 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;
creating your own gratitude journal and rosary;
making art for God, such as a salt-dough Trinity wall hanging, an Assumption cloud pillow, and an orange garland for St. Nicholas Day;
and creating edible flower lollipops to remind us of the "Garden of Mary's womb”;
and baking “Cookies of Joy” in honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen.

Campbell will show you how the liturgical calendar, which follows the seasons of the year in the life of the Church, is a tool that may bring you closer to God in the midst of a fast-paced and ever-changing world. The saints we honour remind us along the way that the road to holiness is worthwhile to pursue in our own unique manner. Their lives may motivate you to pay attention to how God asks you to follow him.

This book is intended to encourage you to commemorate the feast days that are meaningful to you. You are not required to begin living liturgically on the first Sunday of Advent; you may begin your journey at any time of year. You also don't have to have a big party for every holiday.

There are projects for people of all ages and skill levels, from easy ways to celebrate a saint's feast day with your children, to more sophisticated festivities with family and friends.

Hardcover. 256 pages. Size: 8 x 10 inches.