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St. Francis Day Survival Guide: Practical Tips for Animal Blessings

Many churches and faith communities offer animal blessing ceremonies. A popular date for these events is the Feast of St. Francis …

The Juneteenth Diocesan Feast Day and liturgy grew out of a Diocese of California Resolution passed in 2021. The resolution …

During the Easter season of 2020, when Christian formation could not take place onsite, I led an online intergenerational …

What portrait of a life of faith do you carry with you? Mine tends to focus on doing: praying, reading and studying scripture, …

On January 6, we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. We retell the story in Matthew's gospel of the Magi arriving in Bethlehem and …

Forma's annual conference is right around the corner, January 17 - 19, 2023, and all Christian educators and formation leaders, …

Many churches offer a Blessing of the Animals in honor of the Feast of St. Francis, on or near October 4th. We bless our pets …

Children’s chapel can mean many things in many different contexts. When I talk about children’s chapel, I’m talking about a …

I find the most powerful day of the liturgical year to be the Feast of Pentecost. It is powerful for its meaning and mystery, and …

Pentecost provides a lot of wonderful images to center interactive prayer stations around: birthday, fire, breath, and wind – just …