🤎🧡💛FALL GIVEAWAY!💛🧡🤎

Today, I’d like to offer you a Fall Giveaway!!

The winner will receive these lovely Autumn Soaps!

The bars are: Pumpkin Spice and Orange Clove…All Natural Ingredients! ~ Made with L🤎ve by Theresa.

Soap Reviews:

These soaps are beautiful!! I purchased the six pack recently. Very gentle, creamy and they smell lovely. My husband even commented on how soft my skin was and how wonderful I smelled after I used them! I even have one on my dresser and our bedroom smells lovely! It’s a gentle scent but it lingers the way you’d like it to. They all smell wonderful – citrus, lemongrass and lavender are my favorites but peppermint and orange patchouli will be wonderful to have for the fall and Christmas seasons!

These soaps are amazing! My family and I have extremely sensitive skin and even struggle with eczema and allergic rashes from many products. These beautiful and gentle soaps actually calm our skin and the eczema on my hands started improving right away! The scents are beautiful as well; the extra soaps we have on display and every time we walk in our bathroom, there is a gentle yet not overpowering beautiful scent. Very feminine and lovely! Thank you for making these!

You will also receive this lovely Fall Kanzashi Flower!

Made with L🧡ve by Gin.

Intricate and Classy Hand-Crafted Kanzashi Accessory Flower.. Hair, Scarf, Shirt etc…. This fetching ribbon flower is a perfect accent to any special outfit and provides a sweet final touch! I like to wear these flowers in my hair, but they can be worn many ways!
Each petal takes undivided attention! First, it is cut and shaped, then burnt to ensure there will be no fraying. The petals are then folded and glued into a flower design and the finishing touches are then added.
The back of the flower has a clip that easily opens and holds firmly.

Just leave a comment here, and your name will be added! It is always great to hear from you. ☺️👏🏻

I will announce the winner next Thursday, October 16th!

Why We Should Know the Saints ~ Mary Reed Newland

The Gospel of John tells us, “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God: to them that believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

 Each succeeding feast gives us a new understanding of this. We have been “born of God.” We must know the saints because we can learn from them how to receive His will, to love it, to act on it, to use the power He has given us to become the sons of God.

Here, we are His adopted sons separated from Heaven by life in the flesh. That part of us that He made in His own image and likeness is detained a while, in the body. It is being tried.

The saints went through the trials too, and with the help of His grace, they overcame came them. They are in glory now, sons united at last with their Father. This is the greatest of His mercies. He loved us before the creation of the world and planned for us to be in eternity with Him.

When sin spoiled the plan, He perfected it – if one can say that – with the Incarnation. He became a man and spent Himself self to devise the means for our perfection. The saints used it. We must too.

Two Autumn Saints for the Married:

The Year and Our Children, Mary Reed Newland

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (November 17)

We have always loved this saint because she was so lovable, so beautiful, young, holy, and so much in love with her husband.

It is refreshing to find a saint who made a fool of herself over her husband, and St. Elizabeth surely did (or so the court thought, at any rate).

The legend that the bread in her basket turned to roses is probably not authentic, but it could have happened; so we like to tell it each year.

Elizabeth is supposed to have been taking bread to the poor and met her husband, King Ludwig, on the way. He asked what was in her basket, lifted the napkin, and there underneath he found roses.

Elizabeth, full of humility, was not exposed as the great benefactress of the poor. This is not consistent with her reputation for openly giving away to the poor everything thing she could get her hands on, but it is a charming story and gives us the cue for our St. Elizabeth’s Day custom.

We bake bread that afternoon so that it will be done by nightfall. It is shaped into large buns – or small loaves (if you prefer), wrapped carefully in linen napkins, and put into baskets.

The children bundle up, get their flashlights, take notes explaining the day and the custom, and go off down the lane to the neighbors with hot bread for their suppers.

It is given away for the love of Christ. Then, when you return home, the bread for your own supper tastes that much sweeter.

St. Gomer (October 11)

He is the patron of the unhappily married, and since everyone who ever gets married thinks sooner or later that he is unhappily married, it is high time we stirred up devotion to this saint.

He is probably an expert at showing up for what they are all hurt feelings, self-pity, piggishness, and all the other things we suffer or perpetrate but don’t admit.

For those truly unhappily married, I am sure that he will show them that eternal happiness is bought with such sufferings as theirs.

Omer Engelbert writes of him: “Courageous soldier and relative of Pepin the Short, who thought to reward him by making him marry Gwin Marie; he suffered terribly from the frightful disposition of this incorrigible woman.

He ended by leaving her and withdrawing to a solitary place which became after his death a place of pilgrimage and the site of the town of Lierre (Belgium).”

So this saint knows what an unhappy marriage is all about.

He is also the patron of woodcutters, turners, glove-makers, and cowherds, and is invoked against hernia.

🍂Fall / Autumn Catholic 21 Printable Coloring Pages! Digital Download ~ Available here.🍂

Bring the beauty of the Catholic faith into your home this autumn with this 21-page Fall Catholic Coloring Book. Perfect for homeschool, family prayer time, or cozy afternoons at home, these pages combine faith-filled images with the warmth of the autumn season.

📖 What’s Included:

21 unique coloring pages (PDF format, 8.5×11)

Simple, distinct line art for easy coloring

Catholic + fall themes:

St. Francis with animals

St. Michael in autumn glory

All Saints Day and All Souls Day

Marian grotto with falling leaves

Harvest, thanksgiving, and Eucharistic symbols

Guardian angels, rosary, and family prayer scenes

A “Fall Catholic Coloring Book” cover page

🎨 Perfect For:

Catholic homeschooling families

Faith formation classrooms

Feast day celebrations

Family activity nights

Anyone who loves combining prayer, art, and the beauty of the seasons

💻 Digital Download:

No physical product shipped

Instant access after purchase

Print as many copies as you need for personal or classroom use

🍂 Why You’ll Love It:
This coloring book is more than just an activity — it’s a way to live the liturgical year, spark conversations about the saints, and weave Catholic faith into the cozy rhythms of fall.

🙏 Make faith, family, and creativity part of your autumn days with this special Catholic resource!

“Show an interest in your child’s welfare. You can do this by devoting time to him, every day if possible. Try to discuss with him his experiences, problems, successes and failures. By giving yourself to him in this intimate way, you give him the feeling that he can always depend upon you to understand and help him in his difficulties.” – Rev. George A. Kelly, Catholic Family Handbook

(Devin Helping His Kids Get Ready for the Bow Shoot):

Drawn from Archbishop Sheen’s bestselling books, these 28 reflections will lead you day by day through the Advent season. Eloquent quotes are paired with beautiful Scriptures on the themes of the season―patience, waiting, gift, hope, humility, joy―and more. Spend a few quiet moments of each day with one of the 20th century’s greatest preachers, preparing your heart to receive the Savior of the world. Available here.

I use this book regularly! Prayers for use by the laity in waging spiritual warfare from the public domain and the Church’s treasury. The book has an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Denver.

Available here.

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