We are so excited to announce that all pre-orders have been shipped (if you haven't already you will receive a confirmation soon) and all planners are now open for order and immediate shipment. Thank you to all of you who already placed your order, we are grateful for your business! All planners, hard copies and ebooks may be found over at www.AllTheSaintsBooks.com under the Education tab.

To celebrate we are going to do a little give away :) How about 3 winners, one ebook planner to each of the winners (winners choose which of the three they would like)! Enter below and we will announce the winner on Wednesday May 15th.

Those of you who have put your pre-order in for your planners should now start seeing an email notifying you that your order has been shipped. We are shipping starting with those who ordered first and working our way up to the most recent orders. Thank you for your patience as we work our way through the rather large pile of orders! And also, we thank you VERY much for your business. We have not yet opened the store for orders new orders to ship immediately and are leaving that on a pre-order status until all orders have been shipped. Keep checking back, it should happen within the week! May you all have a blessed and holy weekend.

-Sanctus Simplicitus & All the Saint's Books Staff

One Church is not as Good as Another
By: Wilfred G. Hurley +Imprimatur 1934

Nineteen hundred years ago with eyes stern, with words incisive and uncompromising, Jesus warned men of the evils to come. But there was to be one evil men should fear above all others. It was the one evil Christ would warn them against, time and time again. Satan? Yes! But Satan disguised as an angel of light!

It is here! It is the evil Christianity faces today! And the name of this evil is indifferentism! What is indifferentism? It is the thought that has come to you, time and time again. A thought you hear spoken of on every side. It is in the very atmosphere you breathe. What is this? That it doesn't make any difference to God what you may believe. That God doesn't care what you believe as long as you live a good life. That God doesn't care to what church you may belong, as long as you live up to the teaching of that of the church. In brief, indifferentism is simply this:"One church is as good as another."


This subtle attack on Christianity has been slowly developing during the last fifty years, coming along hand in hand with the material progress of the times. With the coming of the automobile, improved highways, the telephone, telegraph and radio, and the other various improvements to make life more livable and happy, men have been thrown more and more into contact with each other. So that today, in this nation of ours, we are really just one large family.

But the real vantage point for indifferentism came in 1917, with the World War. When men were taken from their homes, in the East, West, North, and South. Forced to live together in the closest possible contact in army camps, on the battle field, on battleships, in peril and danger, in privation and suffering. And men began to realize that no matter what belief a man might hold, he was apt to be a splendid fellow after all. And the result was, that although they might hold contradictory creeds and doctrines, a wonderful feeling of friendship, fellowship, and tolerance sprung up among men. And it was, unfortunately, in this garb of friendship and tolerance and good fellowship, that the evil of indifferentism disguised itself.  Spreading far and wide until today it is an evil widespread as Christianity itself. Threatening Christianity's very existence. An evil all the more terrifying in its destruction, because while it appears lovely and beautiful on the surface, at the same time it is destroying men's souls. Does this seem far-fetched? STop and think for a minute!

If one church is as good as another, then, religion is only a matter of sentiment and good taste. There is no real truth in it. And a man is as free to follow his inclination in choosing his church, as he might be in choosing a club or a lodge. When you are indifferent to anything it doesn't require much opposition for you to give up that thing completely. Religion is no exception. You know that! And thus it requires only a little obstacle for you to drop church entirely. If you hold one church as good as another, you are not far from the belief that there is not much good in any church. And you are quite right. For, if religion is only an opinion, then it can easily be wrong, as any opinion can be wrong. Hence, there is no certainty. Everything ends in doubt and darkness. The mysteries of faith are denied. And this state of mind prepares you, sooner or later, for the complete denial of Christianity. A rejection of God's Revelation. And perhaps, even a rejection of God himself! "By their fruits you shall know them!" So said Christ Himself. It is the Acid Test! Apply it to indifferentism! What are its fruits?

FRUITS OF INDIFFERENCE
Fifty years ago, you had met a man on the street and asked him: "To what church do you belong?" he would have promptly answered you. Mentioning such and such a church. The United States was, practically speaking, a hundred per cent Christian nation. Today ask a man on the street to what church he belongs. He will be amazed and amused at your question. Seven out of ten will answer you with a pitying smile, that they belong to none. Do you know what the last census revealed the appalling fact, that the American people are now practically 70% Churchless? Think what this means! Seven out of every ten men and women in our country have put themselves down, in black and white, that God, and the worship of God, means nothing to them whatsoever.

To sum up! The last generation were, for the most part, are baptized, but are not church members. And the signs of the times seem to point out that the next generation, at least outside of the Catholic Church, will be neither church members nor baptized. That is the fruit of indifferentism in a short fifty years. Is it, or is it not, an evil? But while indifferentism comes to us disguised as an angel of light, like all disguises, it can be easily torn off. And you can see evil as it really is. Simply take your God-given gifts of intelligence, reason, and comMon sense and use them.

GOD IS TRUTH
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life," said Jesus. God is truth! But a God of infinite and absolute truth! He loves truth. And He hates and despises untruth, falsehood, and deceit. And you are the living child of the Living God! Hence, God wants you to love the truth! And hate untruth, falsehood, and deceit! If you believe in God at all, you must believe this!

Now indifferentism says that it makes no difference to God whether you believe in one thing or the other. Whether you belong to this church or another. Whether you believe one set of doctrines, or some opposing doctrines, or whether you believe anything at all. It is a terrifying statement! IT simply means that God is not a God of truth. But a God of falsehood and untruth. That He is the Father of lies, You do away with God! Why is this?

Because, even though you know nothing at all about the teachings of the various Christian bodies in existence today, you know they are not only teaching different doctrines but they absolutely contradict each other in essential beliefs. Here is one church teaching baptism is absolutely necessary to salvation. But here is another church denying this, and saying that baptism is not necessary. Here is one church that teaches men are doomed either to eternal happiness or eternal misery. But here is another church teaching that all men will be saved. HEre is one church that is teaching Christ is really present in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. But here is another church which says He is not present, never was, never will be. And the contrary teaching is idolatry.....

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Thank you for the overwhelming response to the planner pack give away! We had over 1000 entries! We are so excited that these planners are near completion as they are currently being printed at the printer. Those of you who have pre-ordered they should be shipping in the next week or two and at that time you will also receive in your email the digital version for those of you who ordered the Holy Simplicity Planner (which the PDF comes free with). So without further a-do ............





the winner of the 3 Catholic Lesson Planners - Planner Pack ...........




is............


KATHLEEN M. who shared the planner pack on Pinterest! Thank you Kathleen for sharing and congratulations. You have already been emailed with the details on acquiring your prize.

For those of you still wanting a copy of the Holy Simplicity Planner, Maidens for Mary and/or Crusaders for Christ Planner(s) there is still time to get pre-orders in so that your copies can go out with the first shipments. And also keep your eyes peeled on our blog over the next few months as we might just give away some more free items! We love sharing ;) A blessed 5th week of Easter to you all!

*** We are bumping this post up as the wrong links were placed for getting to the Catholic Life book, they have now been corrected and are working. We apologize for any inconvenience.

For those of you who follow our blog as well as those who purchased the Holy Simplicity Planner last year, you are quite familiar with this little gem. Its a favorite title of ours along with Dom Gueragner's Liturgical Year! We are so excited to announce that Catholic Life or The Feasts, Fasts, and Devotions of the Ecclesiastical Year is now back in print! This paperback version allows for affordability and use. Its the perfect companion with the Holy Simplicity Planner which is why it was included IN last years version. We made the decision to remove the title and have it reprinted on its own so that it would not have to be purchased in a consumable form every year. Now this title may be used and loved year after year! 

As it is an exact reprint of the 1908 version it also contains many black and white pictures for the various feast days as well as a few articles that were not in last years Holy Simplicity Planner as there was not enough space to include them all. But they are all here now in this nice compact handy book! 

To preview some of the articles please visit our various Liturgical Year pages, a few of them can be found by visiting these specific pages: Catholic Life Introduction, Advent, Christmas, Lent. If you and your family follow the Liturgical Year this is the best little book to have as a guide! It covers all the major feasts, fasts and devotions within the Catholic Church and is a wonderful guide to keeping those Catholic traditions in the home. It is the perfect companion with the Holy Simplicity Planner as well as  Dom Gueranger's Liturgical Year. We hope that you will enjoy this title as much as we do! Visit All the Saint's Books for more details on Catholic Life.

Ps.... There are new previews of the children's planners up at All The Saint's Books ;)

Spring is here, the sun in Oregon is out (today any way) and the end of our homeschool year is so very close. I'm finding myself anxious to finish up with this years lessons and get started on planning for the 2013/2014 school year! Needless to say I'm as anxious to have my new Holy Simplicity planner as I know many of you are as well. My boys area also hovering over the proof saying "Is that my planner?!"

 I have good news! Its getting they are getting final touches put on them and the final proof before they are printed and start shipping to all who have put your pre-order in. Shipments are expected to start the 2nd week of May. We thank you for your support on these planners! In anticipation of the Holy Simplicity Planner, Maidens for Mary Catholic Girls Planner and the Crusaders for Christ Catholic Boys Planner we wanted to do a little give away!

Starting today we are accepting entries for afree Planner Package which is valued at $50+ including the shipping! This includes 1 Holy Simplicity Planner, a Catholic planner for planning your home, school & Liturgical Year. This years edition features 50+ Full Color Liturgical Planning pages including 8 pages just for Easter and Christmas. 225 stickers to mark fast/abstinence days as well as Name Days and other special feasts, anniversaries and birthdays. Each month contains a double spread monthly planning page with room for notes and marks Saints and major feast days. Following the monthly calendar are double spread weekly planning pages color coded according the the Catholic Church's Liturgical Season. These also contain reminders for major feast/fast days and there is room to write the weeks menu plan out along with a space for notes and planning for 4 students and 9 subjects.

Along with the Holy Simplicity planner, the winner of our give away will get to choose 2 children's lesson planners. The Maidens for Mary and Crusaders for Christ Catholic lesson planners are both laid out in similar manner. They contain a single page spread for the monthly calendar with saints and feast days marked as well as whom the Church dedicates each month to. On the back of this page is space to record any books that were read in that month, a short prayer to memorize, Catechism lessons to learn and more. Following this monthly calendar are single pages for each of the weeks in that month. Depending on the planner these feature various artwork of crusaders, castles, armor, pictures of Our Lady or other female saints. Crusaders for Christ features boyish colors of blue, green, brown and a dark red while the Maidens for Mary Planner features girly colors of pink, purple, yellow and azure. Each week's page contains space to write lessons in for 9 subjects, a weekly to-do task list as well as a place to keep track of virtue practice.

 These lesson planners are geared for grades 3rd through 8th grade and help the child to manage their homeschool day more on their own. It helps to teach time management and responsibility and limits the 'what do I do now' questions to the teacher. This also makes a great record keeping book to store away incase one needs to show what was done on such and such a date. In the back of the children's planners there is a reproducible book report for and also a tear-out Catholic report card to give to the student when the year is completed. 

To view more on any of these planners please visit our new book store All the Saints Books! The give-a-way winner will be announced on next weeks Keeping It Catholic Monday post. Details on entering the give-a-way may be found below.

Thank you to those of you who have already placed your order for one of our three planners! We wanted to send you a quick little note as I know some (many perhaps) of you are anxious to have next years lesson planner! I must admit so am I, our school is winding down here with a few weeks left and its so nice to get to start over again and plan a new year!

We are hoping to have the final touches done on all three planners by this weekend or early next week so they may be sent off to the printer. Then we will start packing and shipping the many orders that have been placed. Arrival date should be between the end of the first week of May and the second week of May for those of you who placed orders in early April. The release of the PDF downloads should take place at this same time.

We will make sure to post here when they start shipping out and you will also get an email regarding your specific order and the shipping information.  Also keep an eye out on the actual planner pages found at All the Saint's Books as some new updates and previews are likely to show up there before any where else. Thank you all for your support in this project and we are excited to get it in your hands!

Have a blessed Weekend,
CeAnne @ Sanctus Simplicitus

Some of them flew, some moved mountains, some walked on water, healed the sick, brought people back to live, all in imitation of our Divine Savior. My husband is starting a new blog series over on his All the Saints Blog called Thaumaturgus Thursday where he is sharing a sanity super hero's story! These are some of my favorite saints stories, real life super heroes for Christ!

Also over on his blog will be the new releases of our vintage Catholic reprints, we finally have a home where we are happy to direct all our readers to the wonderful books that we have been blessed to share here on our blog! A blessed second Easter Monday to you all!

What is new here at Sanctus Simplicitus? We are busy working on the final details of the Holy Simplicity Planner, Crusaders for Christ and Maidens for Mary planner! They should be done in early May. Thank you to all of you who have already placed your pre-order. Today we updated some of the images on the children's planners to include the monthly planning page preview. Hop on over to All the Saint's books to check those out.

We are so excited to announce that the Holy Simplicity Planner, Maidens for Mary Young Ladies Planner and Crusaders for Christ Young Man's planners are available for pre-order!!! 

The Holy Simplicity Planner is currently at the printer and we expect its full release come early May. This planner is ideal for Catholic homeschooling parents who want to plan their home, school and Liturgical Year all in one! Its about 200 pages, all but about 15 of those are full color. Each month has a double spread planning page as well as each week. There is room for 4+ children's lesson planning and 9 subjects. Each week contains a saint quote and room for planning the weeks menu as well as the weeks projects and/or to-do list. Its color coded according to the Liturgical year and has reminders for major feast days. Special to this years addition are 225 stickers to use in indicating fast/abstinence days as well has stickers for marking feasts of Our Lord and Our Lady and to give to the children as a reward. In the back of the planner is a reproducible section that includes forms for keeping track of grades, attendance and also a Catholic report card and more! In addition and also new this year are 50+ pages of full color Liturgical feast/season planning and journaling pages! Click here to preview the Holy Simplicity Planner.

The children's planners are new this year, many of you have been enjoying the free download and voiced the desire to have a printed version. We have answered that request in the Maidens for Mary and Crusaders for Christ children's planners! 

Maidens for Mary Young Ladies Catholic Lesson Planner features an easy monthly layout for writing down appointments, classes, chores, and other items and then each week also has its own page with 9 subject spaces for writing down lessons completed or for writing lessons out ahead of time for the child to follow themselves and help to teach self regulation and discipline in regards to their daily lesson plans and education. Each week also features a saint quote as well as a new image of Our Lady or another maiden devoted to Our Blessed Mother. There is also a section on the weekly page for keeping track of weekly chores and errands as well as a daily check list for virtue practice. Another section is including for other basic record keeping such as a book reading log and more. For more information on this girls Catholic lesson planner please click here.

Crusader's for Christ Catholic Young Man's Lesson Planner is very similar to the young ladies planner but is designed to appeal to young men. The theme for these planners features a new image of a crusader on each weeks page and has a very knightly design and layout. Otherwise this planner has the same features as the young ladies: monthly calendar, weekly planning pages with daily task list, virtue practice and 9 subject spaces for lesson planning. To view more on all of these planners please visit our new book store site!

Our blog has been a little quite since Lent, Holy Week and Easter as we were busying keeping the season ( or in the case of Lent taking a break to keep the season) but we have also been working not only on these three projects but another exciting adventure for our little family!

Along with the release of the pre-orders on the lesson planners we also opened a book store featuring vintage Catholic reprints of some wonderful books! So many of these books we have reviewed and shared on our site and many of them can be hard to find. Quite a few of them are dated from the late 1800's and early 1900's. True treasures and full of the Catholic faith! We are so excited to be able to share these with you and make them readily available for your enjoyment. The book store may be found by going to www.AllTheSaintsAndPeterAndPaul.com and clicking on the book store tab to the top right.

We are still in the process of growing our selection so please check back weekly to see what is new. We are adding an average of one new title a day. To keep up on the new selections without the hassle please sign up for our e-newsletter that will come out once a month. The link to sign  sign up for the All The Saints and Peter & Paul Newsletter is here or you can also find it on our main book store site at the bottom right of the page.

Many different subject matters are covered in the book selections but special attention has been given to educational books as well as books on motherhood as we understand that our readers (of this blog) seek those sort of books out most and they can be hard to find. Please if there is a topic you feel is missing or a subject that you have been searching for let us know by emailing us.

We are so excited to have the new Children's planner design in the works! We thought we would give you a sneak peak at what the printed planners will look like this coming spring. If you haven't already seen the newest updates on the Holy Simplicity Planner take a gander over on our main Holy Simplicity Planner page. 

The Maiden's for Mary Catholic Young Ladies Planner features a different holy card of Our Blessed Mother, her symbols and various female Catholic Saints. With a new quote for every week on the top. Some very girly colors and lots of room for planning with space for 9 subjects, a daily checklist and virtue checklist. There will be some extra planning sheets as well for various things like a book log, report card etc.

Our Crusader's for Christ Young Gentlemen's Lesson Planner is very 'manly' or rather young manly. With a nice parchment scroll at the top featuring the quote for the week. A picture of Crusader's wearing their knightly armor. And all the other lovely things contained in the Maiden's for Mary planner as well. These brightly colored planners are sure to be a hit for any child in grades ranging from 3rd on up to 8th grade. Stay tuned, we should have more details soon! 

March is dedicated by the Church to St. Joseph, the Spouse of the Blessed Virgin and the Patron of the Universal Church. The monthly downloads are now available for March!

Butler's Lives of the Saint's Notebooking pages for March's Saints are here and may also be found on our Butler's Lives of the Saint's Notebooking Page

Download the March Liturgical Year Bulletin Board pieces on the Liturgical Year Bulletin Board page, there have been some changes made to the monthly prayer cards as well as the title pieces. If you have any questions please email us.

March and April downloads are up for the Catholic Children's lesson planners. Starting in May we will have printed planners available for both boys and girls, please visit the Holy Simplicity Planner page to sign up for updates on those as well as our main planner.

The March edition of the St. Catherine Academy Gazette is available for download over at Crusader's for Christ. 

We pray that this 2nd week of Lent is fruitful for you all and that God sends His choicest blessings upon you!