You read that right! I’m going on a pilgrimage to England and I’d love to have you join me! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kendra Tierney (@kendra_tierney) Sign up to join me here! We’ll be spending time in London, visiting the sites of St. Thomas More’s...

The 2023 Costume Contest: Winners & Honorable Mentions
Another All Saints' Day has come and gone, and it was amazing to get to see all of the saints that your families chose to dress up as! The Catholic All Year team loved getting to look through each and every costume...
Airing Our Grievances – A Very St. Catherine Way to Make a Difference
Do you know St. Catherine of Siena? She's one of our favorite saints! A doctor of the church, and a marvelous example of "holy feistiness". She did everything with a Holy Spirit-driven intensity! This intensity gave great fuel to her prayer life and inspired a holy...
Merry Christmas from the Tierneys
Dear Friends and Family, Thank you so much for all your prayers, Masses, cards, gifts, kind words, rides for the kids, and other support since Jim passed away in July. I am so grateful. Even if you didn't receive a personal thank you note from me, please know it was...
Home
Hi and welcome!My name is KendraFor twenty years now, I’ve been using food, prayer, and conversation based around the liturgical calendar to share the lives of the saints and the beautiful truths and traditions of our Catholic faith. My own ten children, our friends...
The Liturgical Living Box
THE CAY SUBSCRIPTION BOX:The Liturgical Year DeliveredBring Catholicism home with beautiful decor & easy feast day celebration materials delivered each month!Designed for busy lifestylesand coordinated with theCatholic All Year Compendium!LITURGICAL LIVINGmade...
On Not Being a VSW (Very Sad Widow): My Talk at the 2022 Fiat Conference
As most of you will already be aware, my husband Jim passed away peacefully in our home on July 9, 2022 after a long battle with cancer. More details, as well as a video of the funeral are available on this page: Funeral and Memorial Scholarship Information. If you'd...
CAY Marketplace Updated – Browsable
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New Home (7/2022)
TeachingFamilies to liveCatholic All YearHi and welcome!My name is—KENDRAI called it Catholic All Year because I have a great devotion to celebrating the liturgical year in the home, and getting to know the saints and seasons of the Church calendar through food,...
Mailbag: My Friend Had an Abortion Because She Needed Cancer Treatment. Can’t We Agree That’s Okay?
Yesterday, I shared my friend Emily's personal story of her mom's crisis pregnancy. See that post here: What’s to Gain by Saying No to Abortion: A Story of Teen Pregnancy, Grandparents’ Prayers, and . . . Me. I received the following comment over on Facebook. I...
The Feast of Corpus Christi & Fostering Belief in the Real Presence
Prefer to watch or listen rather than read? This post is available in video format here. Hey all! Today we’re going to talk about belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist: how to understand it, how to teach it, and how to celebrate its feast day, Corpus...
How To Start Liturgical Living in the Home (with help from me in 2008)
Health update: Not much to report. Treatments are progressing. We are awaiting test results. We are all in good spirits. Your prayers are SO appreciated. God's will be done. In case you prefer watching/listening to reading . . . this post is also available as a video....
Faith on Fire Sale
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Sophia 8: Home Page
Transform how the liturgical year is lived at home Discover the beauty of the Catholic faith and living the liturgical yearWelcome to Catholic All Year There's no one-size-fit-all approach to the faith. Liturgical living in the home has been transformational for me...
Restructured Home: Sophia
teaching families to live catholic all yearWhat would your life look like if you lived out the traditions of the Catholic faith?Catholic All Year teaches families how to bring liturgical seasons and celebrations into their homesBring Catholicism HomeFree...
Liturgical Subscription Box Old
Bring Catholicism home with beautiful decor & easy feast day celebration materials delivered each month!Designed for busy lifestyles and coordinated with the Catholic All Year Compendium!Liturgical Living made easySkip the planning, the grocery lists, and the...
How Things Are Going Around Here (and getting ready for Lent)
Hey remember long rambling blog posts? Those were my JAM, y'all, back in the good old days of blogging. Let's go old school. But, because I know your attention span isn't what it used to be, here's what we're going to talk about. Feel free to scroll to what interests...
Membership Library
Catholic All YearMembership Library The Liturgical Year, DigitallyWelcome!We're so glad you're part of the Catholic All Year Community!Please read our welcome letter.August ResourcesNew resources for you to use this month!Prayers and DevotionsBooklets featuring all...
An At Home Blessing of Animals for the Feast of Saint Francis
Hey guys! So much fun stuff is in the works around here. We are adding a whole new dimension to Catholic All Year memberships. Different levels include: a colorful daily medallion calendar featuring fun feast day symbols, saint and feast day summaries, five posters...
The Seven Sorrows of Mary: an activity for children
Hey all! It's September, the month of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is coming up on September 15. And while "The Seven Sorrows" might not sound like a lot of fun . . . I'm here to try to convince you that it's a devotion worth...
Catholic Indulgences and that Los Angeles is Named for One
Hey all! Catholic indulgences, St. Francis of Assisi, and the surprising history of the founding of Los Angeles: It’s a new installment of the Catholic All Year Liturgical Living Show! Come with us to visit the San Fernando Mission, Old Town L.A.’s Olvera St., and...
It’s Never Too Late to Start: A Lenten Book List
Well, here we are on Monday of the first week of Lent. Happy feast of the Chair of St. Peter! (See how our family celebrates the day here.) If Ash Wednesday crept up on you this year, not to worry . . . it's never too late to start voluntary Lenten disciplines! I...
Liturgical Year Subscription Boxes, Meal Planner Catholic Mom Bundle, and New CAY Memberships!
Hey guys! I’ve been working for months on a bunch of new products and ideas and they all sort of came together at once, and (no surprise) many are liturgically seasonal, plus . . . I really like the creating of the things and I don’t at all like the marketing of the...
Radio/Podcast Appearances
Kendra's YouTubeThe Family Rosary (why is it SO hard?!)Easy DIY Easter Candle! Using and Disposing of SacramentalsPraying for the Dead with ChildrenRecent Guest Articles / InterviewsTurn to Favorite Titles for Mary During This Month of the Rosary National Catholic...
Book Shop
New Books and Upcoming ReleasesWelcome to the Catholic All Year Liturgical Living Weekly Meal Planner, sure to make you a perfectly pious and oh-so organized cook. Or . . . maybe not. But this planner has been mindfully designed for busy moms and everyone who wants to...
Merry Christmas from the Tierneys, 2020
Christmas Eve greetings, dear readers! Our Christmas cards are currently chilling with all their pals in a USPS sorting facility. So, if you get a card from us . . . it's coming! But in the meantime, and for all of you out there on the interwebs, here's a virtual...
St. Nicholas Catholic Book Stack
Hey, you ever announce you're going to start blogging again and then behind the scenes stuff goes sideways and then your dad has a stroke and you spend the beginning of Advent dealing with hospitals for the second year in a row, but this time it's 2020 so you can't...
I Like to Think That I Would Die for Jesus
For some clarifications and considerations, see this follow up post, Abortion Jargon, Obedience, and Whether I Just Want to Kill All Priests: The Catholic + Coronavirus Can of Worms I suppose one never knows for sure until one is faced with the opportunity, but I like...
Happy Easter! And a Tierney Family Update . . .
The thing about Easter is that it came anyway. Alleluia! Our In-Progress At Home Painted Chapel, aka how I spent my summer vacation I can't tell you how much joy it has given me to share liturgical living traditions with you guys during this time. Virtual community is...
Four Effective Ways for Catholics to Pray When Separated from Mass and the Sacraments
Many of us do not now have access to the Eucharist, "the source and summit of Christian life." (CCC 1324) But let's not just throw up our hands and despair! We have recourse to a Morning Offering to unite ourselves to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered publicly...