Now available are the May Notebooking Butler's Lives of the Saints! There are some small adjustments to the layout and the pictures this month are taken straight from Pictorial Lives of the Saints! Don't forget to purchase this newly reprinted copy of the book over at All the Saint's Books!

Download the new title piece and the saint's calendar pieces for the Liturgical Year Bulletin board! May is the month of Mary and the feature artwork of the title piece. Also check out some of the titles we have on the Blessed Mother to read during the month of May.

There are free downloads for the children's planners still up through June. Download May & June's files over at the new Crusader's for Christ planner page and the Maidens for Mary planner Page.

This year's printed planners feature 225 Catholic stickers and our new Maidens and Crusader's Designs along with a reproducible book report sheet, a tear out report card and monthly record keeping sheets.

Our friends over at Crusaders-for-Christ have a new St. Catherine Academy Gazette up for free download! Full of Catholic stories for children (and adults) as well as coloring pages and games.

PDF Downloads are NOW AVAILABLE for all three planners! Download your copy(ies) today for only $5.95. 

Our project list seems to grow rather than shrink around these parts. Thanks to our children they are always inspiring new ideas and showing us new needs that they have. This project is another of those created for our dear children who love to learn about our Holy Catholic Faith and especially by following the Liturgical Calendar. They have been wanting a Liturgical Calendar of their own and what better way to give that to them than to have them take part in the making of it!

This free download was created with our lovely friends over at Crusader's for Christ, they were so gracious as to create the coloring pages for this fun little project and we gladly put the calendar part together to go with it. This is a 26 page black and white download that can be printed 2-sided. The top portion will have a coloring page that fits the Liturgical Season for each month. The following page has a blank calendar in which the child will fill out the month, whom the Church dedicates the month to and the year of Our Lord. Children may also choose to write in the saint of the day, holy days of obligation and fast days, a free 2013 Liturgical Calendar may be found over at Crusader's for Christ. There are blank squares below to fill in the number for the month, so this printable may be used for any year and started at any time of the year! Simply bind the top, or have it bound at a print shop and punch a whole in the bottom middle of each page to hang. We pray that you enjoy this little project as much as we have already on just our first month! 
God bless, 
From us here at Sanctus Simplicitus

Ps. We are considering offering this as a printed item to purchase, would you be so kind as to take our survey below and let us know if you are interested? Thank you!

Our friends over at Crusaders-for-Christ have done it again, another wonderful  download. We are excited to share with you their handwork in their new Catechism in Rhyme Handwriting book, and yes its free to download! This little gem is geared for 4th through 6th graders who already know how to form their letters in handwriting but need some extra practice. It also teaches Catechism while they are practicing their handwriting. The wonderful content for this book is taken from an 1862 book titled "Songs for Catholic Schools and Catechism in Rhyme." Download this Catholic Handwriting book over at our friends site.

While you are there make sure you check out the latest Saint's doll outfit styled by Ms. Sarah! She continues to come out with beautiful work that is sure inspire young ladies with some fun Catholic playtime and also give them another outlet in which to learn their Faith. All these wonderful outfits come with a brochure on the Saint and their story.

Crusader's for Christ also has a series of wonderful sermons on Sunday, called Sanctifying Sunday Sermons. Another great item to visit while you are looking at their other goodies!

There are a few updates on our site:

For those who use the Liturgical Year Bulletin board we had a correction to make on the March Title pieces. The plain month title piece as well as the 2013 piece were cropped incorrect ally. That piece has now been corrected. We also added a split piece for the 23rd and 31st of March as if you have a 5 week calendar the 31st would not fit without attaching it below. Hopefully this will help resolve that issue.

One of our readers brought it to our attention that we had mistakenly placed St. Ignatius of Loyola on the Feb. 1st bulletin board pieces instead of St. Ignatius of Antioch which belonged there. We have updated that PDF download as well as provided a PDF of only that one piece (for those of you who downloaded the pieces last year). We apologize for the confusion. In this saints honor we are also going to share his wonderful story today. The stories of the early Roman martyrs are filled with such love of God!

A blessed Sexagesima Sunday to you all (more wonderful readings about this Sunday can be found over at Crusader's for Christ)

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. 1894
ST. IGNATIUS, Bishop of Antioch, was the disciple of St. John. When Domitian persecuted the Church, St. Ignatius obtained peace for his own flock by fasting and prayer. But for his part he desired to suffer with Christ, and to prove himself a perfect disciple. In the year 107, Trajan came to Antioch, and forced the Christians to choose between apostasy and death. "Who art thou, poor devil," the emperor said when Ignatius was brought before him, "who settest our commands at naught?" "Call not him 'poor devil,'" Ignatius answered, "who bears God within him." And when the emperor questioned him about his meaning, Ignatius explained that he bore in his heart Christ crucified for his sake. Thereupon the emperor condemned him to be torn to pieces by wild beasts at Rome. St. Ignatius thanked God, Who had so honored him, "binding him in the chains of Paul, His apostle."

He journeyed to Rome, guarded by soldiers, and with no fear except of losing the martyr's crown. He was devoured by lions in the Roman amphitheatre. The wild beasts left nothing of his body, except a few bones, which were reverently treasured at Antioch, until their removal to the Church of St. Clement at Rome, in 637. After the martyr's death, several Christians saw him in vision standing before Christ, and interceding for them.

Reflection.—Ask St. Ignatius to obtain for you the grace of profiting by all you have to suffer, and rejoicing in it as a means of likeness to your crucified Redeemer.

A continuation of the book Public School Education is being shared over on our Catholic education blog, come and join us in a wonderful book!

You may find the February title pieces and prayers over at the Liturgical Year Bulletin Board Page

The February Crusaders for Christ & Maidens for Mary planner pages are up, March and April should be up sometime this week.

February Butler's Lives of the Saints Notebooking pages are also up and ready to print!

May you all have a blessed Septuegesima Sunday, don't forget to visit our Lenten page to start your Lent preparations. 

Also some of you have asked if we will be having a study guide similar to the short run of Jesse Tree guides that we put out last November and December. At this time we won't be printing any study guides or other items. We will soon be putting up a page featuring two books from the main book used in the Jesse Tree Study Guide. One focuses on the Life of our Savior and the other on The Life of the Soul. We will have free worksheets/ coloring pages etc. available but the books themselves are no longer printed. They may be found through bookfinder.com and prayerfully they will be reprinted so they are more easily available to all. God bless!

I need to make a correction to the Liturgical Year Bulletin Board saints for January as well as the Holy Simplicity planner. The Feast of the Holy Family is a moveable feast and so we will provide an undated piece for the Liturgical Year Bulletin Board (date will be written in with dry erase marker) and a substitute piece for the current Jan. 8th piece.

The date is also incorrect in the Holy Simplicity Planner, it is noted there as on the 12th of this month when it should be on the 13th. My apologies for this error and we will put up another post when the new pieces are available. A blessed Octave of the Epiphany to you all!

"The Feast of the Holy Family is a greater-double and celebrated on the Sunday within the octave of the Epiphany.  If this Sunday falls on the Octave Day, the feast is kept on the Saturday before, Jan 12, with the same commemoration of the Sunday and of the Octave." 

We decided this year to make the Liturgical Wheel for the Liturgical Year Bulletin Board a reusable piece. The Liturgical Calendar changes based on when Easter falls and so the wheel would change ever year. By simplifying the Liturgical wheel we have made it so with a simple turn of part of the wheel it is reusable every year. Simply download the Re-Usable Liturgical Wheel file and follow the directions for putting it together.

Also you will find the January Notebooking pages for those of you following the Butler's Lives of the saints with us over at the Butler's Lives of the Saints Notebooking page!

Praying you have a blessed, safe, happy and holy New Year!

+++ S.A.G. +++

For those of you who use our Liturgical Year Bulletin Board pages we have a few updates and changes:

My dear husband was kind enough to catch that in November, St. Sylvester has a picture of St. Sylvester I the Pope and the saint for that day is actually St. Sylvester the abbot. That piece as been updated on the November download. (My husband is more the expert on the saints which is why his site, All the Saints and Peter and Paul, features the saints from the Liturgical Year books  ;)  )

December has some updates and changes as well (my apologies as I know many of you have printed these already as have we). Three saints were left off and in the old file have Feria Days listed. Those have been updated in the December File. Also I didn't realize that we would not have room for all the pieces this month with the 1st on a Saturday causing the 23/30 and 24/31 to share a spot on the grid. In the file below we included split options along with all the other pieces that were changed. All these are in THIS one file here. If you have not yet printed the pieces the files are all updated and are good to go! Thank you for joining us on this yearly journey through the Liturgical Year! We are excited to start our first full year of our bulletin board with all the pieces ready to go.

A blessed Advent to you all!

My apologies for the lateness on these downloads, our Jesse Tree Study Guide took much time away from these other smaller projects. Enjoy!

Liturgical Year Bulletin Board
Saint's Pieces
Title Pieces and Prayer Dedications

Catholic Children's Planner Pages
Crusaders for Christ - December
Maidens for Mary - December

Notebooking Butler's Lives of the Saints
December Notebooking Pages