This is a large no-prep pack for using with a lesson or reviewing the seven virtues. It will help with character education and the students knowing that the virtues are Theological or Cardinal and that by doing good and living the moral life that God intends for us. There are activities based on Catholic virtues with worksheets, charts, posters, and more for a variety of ages/grades to use at home or in the classroom. Some of the definitions are based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 1803-1829. The black & white posters could be used as coloring pages. Included in this pack…. ◆ Worksheets ◇ Types: Virtues Sort and Types of Virtues Matching ◇ Synonyms: The Seven Virtues Matching ◇ Unscramble, Decode, and Rounders ◇ Cut and Paste Symbols: Label the Virtue Symbol and Match the Virtue and Symbol ◇ Definition: Matching ◆ Puzzles ◇ Crossword Puzzle ◇ Synonym: Word Search and Criss-Cross ◆ Posters in Color and Black & White ◇ Each includes the virtue, CCC definition, synonym, dictionary definition, and Bible verse for that virtue ◆ Charts ◇ Compare and Contrast ◇ K-W-L ◇ 4 Facts ◆ Answer Keys ◇ For all worksheets and puzzles 'Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America Copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. -- Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with Permission. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Libreria Editrice Vaticana. All Verses from The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Copyright 2023 by Elaine G of The Treasured Schoolhouse. All Rights Reserved.
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) 1892-1990 | Russian-French Le petit cardinal noir (“The Little Black Cardinal”) Signed “Erté” (lower right) Gouache on paper This original gouache from the creative mind of Erté entitled Le petit cardinal noir puts the spotlight on Erté’s tongue-in-cheek artistry. Oft-called “Father of Art Deco,” this clever and somewhat irreverent work showcases the more whimsical side of Erté’s glamorous oeuvre. Merging Art Deco fashion with the iconography of the Catholic Church, Erté dresses his “cardinal” in an all-black ensemble, daring to envision the attire in a dark hue rather than the traditional red color. Complete with the traditional small “zucchetto” hat, Erté’s outfit includes the layered alb robes and cloak and tied ascot. Erté transforms the traditional garb into a high fashion ensemble, painting the cloaks with dramatic structural collars and pleats and pairing the robes with cropped shorts, pointed high heels and a luxurious white fur muff. Erté’s precise lines and striking black-and-white color palette pop with dazzling intensity. This elegant gouache on paper underscores Erté’s clever imagination, sophisticated point of view and unimpeachable sartorial genius. Russian-French visionary Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990), popularly known as Erté, began his artistic journey in the culturally rich city of St. Petersburg, where he developed an early fondness for ballet and theatrical performances. He moved to Paris in 1912 to study architecture, and quickly found his creative niche in crafting fantastical costumes for the city’s bustling nightlife. Erté‘s expertise, refined under the guidance of the famed Paul Poiret, captured the attention of Harper’s Bazaar, marking the beginning of a significant partnership that spanned from 1915 to 1936. The artist also designed sets for notable cinematic masterpieces including Ben Hur and La Bohème, and created sets and costumes for cabarets, operas and other performances at the Folies-Bergères, Bal Tabarin, the Théâtre du Bataclan and Le Casino de Paris. Often remembered as the “Father of Art Deco,” Erté was a trailblazer whose colorful creations shaped the groundbreaking Art Deco era more than any other, leaving an indelible mark on the history of art and design. His artworks reside in prestigious museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Painted Circa 1970 Paper: 14 1/2” high by 10” wide Frame: 20 3/4” high by 16 1/8” wide by 3/4" deep Exhibitions: M.S. Rau, New Orleans, Erté and the Era of Art Deco, October 14, 2023 - January 3, 2024 Provenance: Private collection, Paris M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Saint of the Day – 13 May – St Robert Bellarmine SJ (1542-1621) Archbishop of Capua, Italy, Rector of the Roman College, Confessor, Cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Theologian, Professor…
Bishop Mitre Sewing Pattern A mitre is a ceremonial headress worn by the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion, Episcopal Church, and by some Lutheran churches. It is notably worn by bishops and certain abbots. Cardinals also wear the mitre (Commonwealth English spelling) or Miter (American Spelling). Some archpriests in the Eastern Orthodox church also wear the mitre. The mitre is traditionally white, made from silk or linen in its simplest form. It may also be made using white and gold or white and silver or embroidered bands. Elaborate mitres in ages past were decorated with precious or semi-precious stones. Details: Pattern contains 4 sizes: S, M, L, XL Small measures 21" Medium measures 22" Large measures 23" X-Large measures 24" Suggested Fabrics: Silk Dupioni Brocades Silk Damasks Metallic Brocades Tapestry Fabrics Not suitable or designed for stretch fabrics or fabrics containingLycra. LINING FABRIC: Cotton, broadcloth, satin, cotton sateen Yardages: Main Fabric Yardage: 1 yard 45" or 60" fabric LINING FABRIC: 1 yard 45" or 60" fabric Trims and Notions: Plastic Insert: Shaped like Front/Back pattern piece connected without seam allowance. Thin, flexible plastic. 2 yards of 3” wide trim Cross Patches: 2 2” crosses This is also a great style for use with copes. See the coordinating cope sewing patterns: Style 3500 and 3501 Wide Orphrey Cope with Hood | Cope Vestment Sewing Pattern Style 3520 and 3521 Narrow Orphrey Cope with Hood | Cope Vestment Sewing Pattern Also included: written instructions *NOTE: Mitre pattern contains a paper pattern and written instructions only. Fabrics, interfacing, lining, embellishments (trims), fringe, tassels, and stole chain or cord are sold separately. *Not suitable for stretch fabrics or fabrics containing Lycra. Patterns are physical products that need to be shipped. They are not available for PDF download. Pattern FAQ's What is the sewing level for this project? This is a project for advanced intermediate to professional level seamstresses. This project is NOT for beginners. What is the pattern printed on? The pattern is printed on white paper. For those who wish to use something a bit less stiff, you may prefer to trace the pattern onto a lighter-weight Pellon pattern interfacing paper. Why is the pattern printed on white paper? There are limited paper options available for small pattern companies to keep production minimums low and costs affordable for clients. The patterns are printed locally in small quantities as needed. The available paper that is large enough for use with our full-size patterns for use while still allowing for small print runs is white blueprint paper. Can the wrinkles be pressed out of the pattern by ironing? It is NOT recommended to use anything hot to press the pattern paper. The patterns are printed with toner ink and they will smudge and leave black marks on other surfaces if the pattern is ironed. Simple smooth the pattern out by hand prior to cutting. If you prefer, the pattern may also be traced off on Pellon Pattern interfacing to preserve the original. Is the pattern available as a digital download file? The patterns are NOT available as a digital download file. They are a physical product that requires shipping. Are the patterns sold to clients the same patterns used by Ecclesiastical Sewing? Yes. We use the very same patterns that are available online in our workrooms for creating beautiful vestments. May I make a copy of the pattern in my plotter or save a digital copy of this pattern? The pattern is copy righted and is offered as a courtesy for use in the church to the Glory of God. The pattern may NOT be copied or saved in any digital format, resold, modified, and sold as an original work, etc. For private use only. Not intended for commercial use.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has called the Synod on Synodality a potential “hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ.” Pope Francis announced last week that he is adding an extra year to the Synod on Synodality. Pope Francis has described it as a
In this highly engaging Catholic Church Hierarchy lesson, students are introduced to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the powers the church had over its followers! Students fill out an engaging worksheet - where they complete a hierarchy pyramid - from the accompanying video clip! Students learn the roles of the Pope, the Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and Parish Priests. Students are also introduced to a diocese, an archdiocese, heresy, clergy, and excommunication! This Middle Ages lesson is included in the larger Middle Ages Unit Bundle located here! This resource includes a paper in-class version and a 1:1 Google compatible version to be used in conjunction with Google Classroom. Just follow the included instructions for how to access the Google version, then share the resource through Google or assign via Google Classroom. This will allow students to type directly into the document! Enjoy! ---- Be sure to follow the History with Mr E Facebook page, and don't forget to signup for the Social Studies Newsletter to receive information on flash sales, product releases, and classroom tips! ----
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic statesman and prelate who had an outsize influence in civil an...
This patrician prefect of Rome is counted among the doctors and Fathers of the Church. After his father’s death, he gave family estates to the Church, founding seven monasteries, including the one he joined in his family home in Rome.
Cardinal Raymond Burke was the Vatican's highest ranking American
Saint of the Day – 13 May – St Robert Bellarmine SJ (1542-1621) Archbishop of Capua, Italy, Rector of the Roman College, Confessor, Cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Theologian, Professor…
Catholic mini book bundle is the perfect printable activity for kids to teach them about the Catholic faith, the Bible, Jesus and more!
Well we all know what today is- the day we start anxiously awaiting white smoke! A new Pope is officially in the works. :-) I wanted to do some kind of Papal activity with the
Architects Shelly and Dennis Hyndman designed the Expressionistic style St. John Fisher Catholic Church completed in 2013. The church honors the memory of Cardinal John Fisher John Fisher (1469 –1535), an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as the supreme head of the Church of England. Located at 5448 Crest Road in Ranch Palos Verdes, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
Catholic mini book bundle is the perfect printable activity for kids to teach them about the Catholic faith, the Bible, Jesus and more!
Vector Illustration of Pope Saint John Paul II, Pontiff Head of Catholic Church, Cardinal Wojtyła
When Archbishop Thomas Collins becomes Thomas Cardinal Collins the principal colour of his vestments will become scarlet to symbolize the blood that a cardinal is willing to shed for his faith. Scarlet was installed as the colour for cardinals by Pope Gregory X at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274.
What is to be made of the increasing moral confusion and seeming collusion of the Catholic bishops in the new wave of sexual scandals? Ed Condon at
Boy am I tired of online Catholics moaning and groaning about Pope Francis! Fuhgeddaboudit! Think it through. It is only in our modern celebrity-media obsessed age that every Catholic thinks they have to listen to every word that drips from the lips of the Holy Father. Its only in the modern age, also, that the Pope had
You don’t see things like this very often, but apparently these sorts of drawings explaining the faith or the liturgy used to be common. You can click on any image to enlarge it. Enjoy! [See also: 32 Beautiful Holy Cards From Another Era of the Church] [See also: 10 Reasons Some Women Are Wearing Veils in Church Again] [See also: 27 Fascinating Photos of Pre-Vatican II Catholicism] [
This is a bit of a throwback given that Kevin Smith’s film Dogma is about […]
At the culmination of my Newman series last week at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, I presented some passages of Blessed John Henry Newman's "Biglietto Speech", made when he received the letter from Pope Leo XIII announcing his appointment as Cardinal Deacon. We noted that many people reading this today would say the situation Newman describes is just as it should be: religion should not be the bond of society; Christianity should not influence the "goodly framework of society", there is no one true religion; religion should be just a private luxury; a secular, government-controlled education is better for forming a well-ordered and respectable population, etc. We even agreed that many Catholics would say that what Newman describes is an acceptable situation: And, I rejoice to say, to one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself. For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. Never did Holy Church need champions against it more sorely than now, when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth; and on this great occasion, when it is natural for one who is in my place to look out upon the world, and upon Holy Church as it is, and upon her future, it will not, I hope, be considered out of place, if I renew the protest against it which I have made so often. Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any recognition of any religion, as true. It teaches that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion. Revealed religion is not a truth, but a sentiment and a taste; not an objective fact, not miraculous; and it is the right of each individual to make it say just what strikes his fancy. Devotion is not necessarily founded on faith. Men may go to Protestant Churches and to Catholic, may get good from both and belong to neither. They may fraternise together in spiritual thoughts and feelings, without having any views at all of doctrine in common, or seeing the need of them. Since, then, religion is so personal a peculiarity and so private a possession, we must of necessity ignore it in the intercourse of man with man. If a man puts on a new religion every morning, what is that to you? It is as impertinent to think about a man's religion as about his sources of income or his management of his family. Religion is in no sense the bond of society. Hitherto the civil Power has been Christian. Even in countries separated from the Church, as in my own, the dictum was in force, when I was young, that: "Christianity was the law of the land". Now, everywhere that goodly framework of society, which is the creation of Christianity, is throwing off Christianity. The dictum to which I have referred, with a hundred others which followed upon it, is gone, or is going everywhere; and, by the end of the century, unless the Almighty interferes, it will be forgotten. Hitherto, it has been considered that religion alone, with its supernatural sanctions, was strong enough to secure submission of the masses of our population to law and order; now the Philosophers and Politicians are bent on satisfying this problem without the aid of Christianity. Instead of the Church's authority and teaching, they would substitute first of all a universal and a thoroughly secular education, calculated to bring home to every individual that to be orderly, industrious, and sober, is his personal interest. Then, for great working principles to take the place of religion, for the use of the masses thus carefully educated, it provides — the broad fundamental ethical truths, of justice, benevolence, veracity, and the like; proved experience; and those natural laws which exist and act spontaneously in society, and in social matters, whether physical or psychological; for instance, in government, trade, finance, sanitary experiments, and the intercourse of nations. As to Religion, it is a private luxury, which a man may have if he will; but which of course he must pay for, and which he must not obtrude upon others, or indulge in to their annoyance. Another challenge of these paragraphs is to read them as positive, not negative, statements--to find the truth, reverse the errors that Newman outlines: There is one true religion; one creed is true and the others are not; God has revealed His truth and He has founded a Church to teach it; it is miraculous and real; those who follow it base their devotions, their worship and prayer, upon its doctrines and teachings, etc. One who follows the true religion will act in public matters based upon its doctrine (including morality). It does matter what religion a man follows. The true religion should be the bond of society; it should inform the common good and influence education, commerce, diplomacy, etc. When we turned Newman's definition of the spirit of liberalism around, we recognized how even professing Catholics, influenced by our culture's emphasis on toleration and acceptance, can feel uncomfortable with these positive statements about the truth of Christianity and the fullness of that truth in the Catholic Church. As Newman says later in the speech, "There never was a device [the spirit of liberalism in religion] of the Enemy so cleverly framed and with such promise of success." For note, as Newman began the discussion, that "Liberalism in religion is the doctrine"--it is a teaching that establishes truths that make claims as clear as those in the paragraph immediately above. This religious liberalism has in some ways become the divisive bond of society and it attempts to influence not just the public, but the private practice of religion by individuals--note the attempt of the city of Houston to subpoena the sermons of ministers opposed to a city ordinance. Usually the claim of those urging a secular society is that religion, a private affair, should be practiced within the walls of one's church, but now it's reaching inside those walls--a definite chilling affect on free speech and exercise of religion, as obtrusive and annoying as it condemns religion for being.
You don’t see things like this very often, but apparently these sorts of drawings explaining the faith or the liturgy used to be common. You can click on any image to enlarge it. Enjoy! [See also: 32 Beautiful Holy Cards From Another Era of the Church] [See also: 10 Reasons Some Women Are Wearing Veils in Church Again] [See also: 27 Fascinating Photos of Pre-Vatican II Catholicism] [
Two months ago before the consistory took place, I posted on this blog about the coat-of-arms of the cardinals-elect. Now it's time to update the coats-of-arms of these prelates since their elevation. I found 17 of them and photoshoped the arms of Francesco Coccopalmerio from his former one. (I also have João Bráz de Aviz's former arms as archbishop of Brasilia, but he would have changed his shield when appointed to the Roman Curia.) If anyone can find the coat-of-arms of the the 4 remaining cardinals (João Bráz de Aviz, Domenico Calcagno, Lucian Mureşan and Julien Ries), please write to me. Cardinals employ the insignia of a red galero with a cord and 15 red tassels on each side of their shield in their arms. (Read also my summary of the insignia of prelates of other ranks.) The shield identifies the person or the family. It is customarily changed whenever this primary office changes (say from auxiliary to ordinary or from ordinary of a see to another). Simple designs of the shields of the other curial cardinals are desirable: Fernando Filoni, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Santos Abril y Castelló, Antonio Maria Vegliò, Giuseppe Bertello, Francesco Coccopalmerio and Giuseppe Versaldi. When a bishop takes possession of a diocese (or an office), he often combines his personal elements with those of the diocese in separate parts of the shield. This is known as marshalling. For instance, Edwin O'Brien uses the red crosses of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in two of the quarters of the shields, while the other two quarters are further marshalled into the symbols he used in his previous arms including that of the coat-of-arms of the premier see of Baltimore. See other fine examples of marshalling in the arms of Timothy Dolan and Rainer Woelki. A few notes about the coats-of-arms of the other cardinals: Cardinal George Alencherry can use a different design in his arms because of his affiliation in the Eastern rite, although this style is not shared by his predecessors or other Syro-Malabar bishops. Thomas Collins and Timothy Dolan could have included a pallium in their arms because they are archbishops of metropolitan sees, like Dominik Duka, Willem Eijk, Giuseppe Betori and Rainer Woelki. John Tong is the only cardinal with the office of a bishop and so uses a single-bar cross instead of a double-bar archiepiscopal cross. (The design of the Hong Kong bishop's shield regrettably breaks every rule in heraldry, just like his predecessor Cardinal Joseph Zen's. They were ordained bishop on the same occasion prior to Hong Kong's return to China. Their coats-of-arms were probably designed by the same novice.) While both Prosper Grech and Karl Becker were only priests when the consistory was announced, the former received episcopal consecration while Karl Becker asked for dispensation from episcopal ordination out of humility, and so does not employ a cross on top of his shield. Note also the different shapes of the shields that are used, which are allowed in heraldry. Everyone should appreciate how beautifully the heraldic artists designed and drew these coats-of-arms. Some of the illustrations were taken from Araldica Vaticana, Marco Foppoli and Giuseppe Quattrociocchi. (I'd be happy to acknowledge other designers if they were missed.) Ecclesiastical heraldry is indeed a great treasure of the Church.
China's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Zen, has blasted the Pope for a potential rapprochement between the Vatican and Beijing comparing it to striking a deal with Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
