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Advent and Christmas Crafts and Activities

12/1/2008

The Empty Manger
In a few short weeks, we will be celebrating the birth of Jesus. What kinds of gifts can we offer Him?

Salt Dough Recipe for Crown of Thorns and other crafts
from the Nov/Dec 2006 issue of Lay Witness

Advent Blessings
Blessing of an Advent Wreath (from the USCCB, in downloadable PDF format)
Blessing of a Christmas Tree (from the USCCB, in downloadable PDF format)
Blessing of a Christmas Creche (from the USCCB, in downloadable PDF format)

Does your family have Advent or Christmas traditions you'd like to share? Email us and let us know!

Articles and Other Resources

Catholic Traditions for Advent and Christmas
How can Catholics better live the spirit of Advent and Christmas in their homes?

Advent from The Catholic Encyclopedia

The Real St. Nick by Leon Suprenant

Don’t Let the Grinches Steal This Christmas by Leon Suprenant

CUF Resources
Member Services
Church Documents

From Our Founder

The last directive of our Savior was to go and teach what He had taught. Today that teaching is being distorted or forgotten or scorned. We at CUF believe that, historically, all the great good works of Christians have been a fruit of the faith; we believe that the decline of the faith opens the way to man’s inhumanity to man; we think that one cannot hope for an apple without an apple tree, and that one cannot hope for peace and unity and mutual help without the true faith.

H. Lyman Stebbins
March 21, 1969