The NEW Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz is live!

Happy New Year!!

The NEW Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz 2013

is LIVE!
 
Check out our most POPULAR Catholic Blog Posts linked up for December…
in our Big Clicks Awards: December!

This is a SHOUT OUT to all 405+ Catholic Bloggers involved in this site
and on Catholic Bloggers on facebook:

Please Participate!

Add your January posts to the link-up,
visit other linked Catholic blogs
and leave friendly comments!,
display your Catholic Bloggers button proudly,
 talk about Catholic Bloggers on facebook and twitter
and your Catholic blogs,
fill out the Catholic Bloggers Spotlight Entry Form
if you’d like to be showcased,
advertise your Catholic products FOR FREE
and link reviews at the Catholic Bloggers Shoppe.

We still have room if you’d like to be a contributor
to any of our FOUR special Catholic Pages:
Scripture and Sunday Readings
Catechism and Apologetics and Catholic Product Reviews
Catholic Family Journal
and
Homeschool, Crafts, Traditions and Liturgical Calendar

Blessings for 2013!







Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centred crafts!

Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers: DECEMBER!

Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network
and help promote Catholic Bloggers!

The new Monthly Round-Up for JANUARY will be up and running on January 1st! Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

 
 
Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers!!
In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:
Felix at Fifty for the post
Prepare Ye the Way: An Advent Reflection

 
Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:

Learning and Growing the Piwi Way for the post
Our Faith and Fun Filled 2012 Advent Plan

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are

JOY for the post
The Communion of Saints

From the Back of the Church for the post
The December Misunderstandings
 

Catholic Family Journal,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are

Joy for the post
Remembering Life in the Womb

and The Breadbox Letters for the post
There’s Angels there!

Catholic Review,

the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers is

Prints of Grace for the post
Style, Sex & Substance

Random, the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are

The Cloistered Heart for the post
The Advent Window
and
Joy for the post
Transformed

Don’t forget to link up to our Monthly Round-Up for the JANUARY 2013 and keep clicking to discover other great Catholic posts and awesome Catholic blogs!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs! We have 405 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!

Check out our Catholic Bloggers Spotlight! and get to know our Catholic Bloggers!





Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts!

Keeping Christ in Christmas: List of Links!

The Keeping Christ in Christmas Blog Carnival is hosted by Truly Rich MomRaising (& Teaching) Little Saints, Arma Dei: Equipping Catholic Families, and the Catholic Bloggers Network. We’ll be sharing different ways, tips, stories and real-life experiences that will help us focus on Jesus as the Reason for the Christmas season. Please scroll down to the end of the post to see the list of carnival entries.

Here are the links to the other blog carnival participants. I hope you’ll take the time to visit them and leave a comment on their posts! 🙂

Leave a comment here…recommending your favorite posts…or tell us how many you have visited so far!



Borrow the Keeping Christ in Christmas Carnival Button…and recommend this directory to your friends and followers!

Don’t forget to leave a comment on these posts as you visit them…we love the encouragement!

Homeschool Mosaics: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Joy: Keeping Christ in Christmas: Advent Interruptions
The Breadbox Letters: Interrupted by Glory
TwentyTuesdayAfternoons: Keeping Christ in Christmas/ The Season of Giving / A Wee Bit of Beach Holiday Angst
The Learning Basket: Staying With the Nativity Story
Tercets: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Rosary Mom: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Ate Maui: Hoping and Bringing Hope
Written By the Finger of God: 12 Traditions for Keeping Christ in Christmas
Dominique’s Desk: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Felix at Fifty: What Jesus Wants for Christmas
Mommy Bares All: Birthday Cake for the Birthday Boy on Christmas Day
Between Now and Later: Keeping Christ in Christmas, I am trying…
Lique’s Antics: Family Antics: Christmas Reflection
Life of Fortunate Chances: Our First Ever Christmas: Keeping Christ in Christmas
The Mommy Journey: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Roller Coaster Ride: How to Remind Your Kids of Jesus Christ This Christmas
Cymplified: Christ -Centered Christmas: Cymplified!
Mountain Grace: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Touring Kitty: Grown-up Christmas List
Mommy Chinkysoup for the Soul: A Very Special Christmas
City Girl, Country Home: Finding Jesus in a Flurry
Coffee Moments with Sam: Christmas Unwrapped: 5 Presents Our Kids Truly Deserve
Raising Lifelong Learners: Keeping Christ in Christmas
The Diary of a Sower: Keeping Christ in Christmas: Celebrating the Golden Days
Arma Dei: Equipping Catholic Families: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Raising (and Teaching) Little Saints: Keeping Christ in Christmas
Truly Rich Mom: The Greatest Gift of All This Christmas
Joy-Filled Family: CHRIST in Christmas
Blueberry 010: Keeping Christ in Christmas: Jesus is the Reason for the Season
Deeper Truth Blog: Keeping Christ in Christmas Carnival
Holy Ducklings: 10 Ways to Make Advent Special for Your Little Ducklings
Green Eggs and Moms: Keeping Christ in Christmas: Green Eggs & Moms Style!

Keeping Christ in Christmas Carnival 2012

Are you feeling stressed over the “busy-ness” and “to-do lists” of our modern-day, mainstream Christmas? Do you feel like there’s a need to reconnect to the true Reason for the season? Do you want to share about how you and your family are preparing for the birthday of Someone very special? Then join us, Tina of Truly Rich Mom, Erika of Raising (& Teaching) Little Saints, and Monica of Equipping Catholic Families …in the “Keeping Christ in Christmas” Carnival for 2012! 

This is a blog carnival that aims to share that — beyond the decor, the parties and the gifts — Christmas is a time for us to celebrate the birth of Jesus. A blog carnival is where we each write a blog post on the same theme. Everyone will get links to other bloggers’ posts to multiply your reach, and to help spread the message of keeping Christ in Christmas!

The carnival is open to all bloggers who agree with the carnival’s goal, particularly Catholics and Christians of all denominations. You may write about anything that pertains to the blog theme, e.g. share tips on how you and your family keep Christ in Christmas; stories to encourage others to do so; books and activities (even recipes!) that help keep Christ in Christmas, etc. 

To participate, please follow these steps:

1. Register by filling up the form at the end of this post or clicking here. (ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 13)
2. Write your blog post on the theme, “Keeping Christ in Christmas.” (ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 18, i.e. the post should be LIVE by December 18)

3. At the beginning of your blog carnival post, write the following as your introduction. 

“I’m participating in the Keeping Christ in Christmas Blog Carnival, hosted by Arma Dei:Equipping Catholic FamiliesRaising (& Teaching) Little SaintsTruly Rich Mom and the Catholic Bloggers Network. We’ll be sharing different ways, tips, stories and real-life experiences that will help us focus on Jesus as the Reason for the Christmas season. Please scroll down to the end of the post to see the list of carnival entries.”

The deadline for registration for the carnival is on December 13, 2012 (Thurs). Posting instructions and carnival rules will be e-mailed to all participants on December 14 (Fri) and the carnival will go live on December 18, 2012 (Tues). PLEASE POST YOUR CARNIVAL ENTRIES ON December 18, 2012, beginning 12MN (IMPORTANT: Please note that all dates/times are based on PHT or Philippine Time, i.e. UTC/GMT +8 hours).

PLEASE NOTE:

Kindly write about the theme provided. We do not moderate or screen posts but we do reserve the right to exclude your entry from the list of carnival participants should your post be offensive, irrelevant to the carnival theme, contain personal attacks, off-topic articles, articles that are anti-Christ or are articles aimed to market products or services.
Kindly note the deadlines and post your entries (i.e. make sure they are live online) on December 18. Please do not forget the deadline for registration, which is December 13.
Thank you very much! We’re excited to read your entries and help spread the word on how to keep Christ in Christmas!
 

Monthly Round-Up for DECEMBER!


For DECEMBER
Add your best Catholic posts here and please link back to Catholic Bloggers Network
Blog Round-Up. You can take our button below!
Please link back to this page in your post to spread the word about the
Catholic Bloggers Network Monthly Round Up!
Let’s get the biggest response yet for September posts!

Check out the Monthly Blog Round-Up Archives for previous posts!

NEW FEATURE!!
Catholic Bloggers Big Clicks Award announced at the end of the month!
Check out the Big Clicks Awards for NOVEMBER!

Please kindly post a Catholic Bloggers Monthly Round-Up button (you will find the code below) on your blog to lead others to this page.
IF POSSIBLE, mention in your linked posts that you are linking up at the
Catholic Bloggers Monthly Round-Up
(and please include the Round-Up link.)
Thanks!




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Big Clicks Awards for Catholic Bloggers for NOVEMBER!

These are the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers for the month of  NOVEMBER!
Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network and help promote Catholic Bloggers!
The new Monthly Round-Up for DECEMBER will be up and running on December 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

isn’t that a cool button?
Feel free to post it as a badge on your blog
…especially if you are one of our first Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers below
and have been awarded this prestigious award!

Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers!!
In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
 the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are:

The Cloistered Heart for the post
Godly Sense
and Joy for the post
Unless You Become Like Little Children
 

Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:

A Bit of Me for the post
Saint Pedro

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is

The Breadbox Letters for the post

Catholic Family Journal,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is

Truly Rich Mom for the post
The Truth about my Pregnancy

Catholic Review,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers is

Equipping Catholic Families for the post
New Advent and Lent Quest

Random, the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers is

The Cloistered Heart for the post
O Tiny One

Don’t forget to link up to our Monthly Round-Up for the DECEMBER and keep clicking to discover other great Catholic posts and awesome Catholic blogs!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs!  We have 381 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!

Check out our Catholic Bloggers Spotlight! and get to know our Catholic Bloggers!

 






Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts! 

October Big Clicks Awards!

These are the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers for the month of  OCTOBER!
Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network and help promote Catholic Bloggers!
The new Monthly Round-Up for NOVEMBER will be up and running on November 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

isn’t that a cool button?
Feel free to post it as a badge on your blog
…especially if you are one of our first Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers below
and have been awarded this prestigious award!

Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers!!
In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
 the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are:

The Cloistered Heart for the post
 Simply Lectio
AND
Mad-Eyed Monk
(Please remember to use a link to a specific blog post…this one goes to the general blog address. Thanks!)
 

Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:

Equipping Catholic Families for the post
Dream Team of October Saints

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is

The Cloistered Heart for the post

Catholic Family Journal,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is

For Better or Worse for the post
We Are Not Worthy
(Please remember to use a link to a specific blog post…this one goes to the general blog address. Thanks!)

Catholic Review,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers is

Raising and Teaching Little Saints for the post
ABC Catholic DVD and CD

Random, the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers is

The Cloistered Heart for the post
My Vespers

Don’t forget to link up to our Monthly Round-Up for the NOVEMBER and keep clicking to discover other great Catholic posts and awesome Catholic blogs!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs!  We have 363 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!

Check out our Catholic Bloggers Spotlight! and get to know our Catholic Bloggers!

 






Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts! 

a new Guest Post at the Catholic Blog Academy…

New Guest Post at the Catholic Blog Academy

Kicking Your Blog Up a Notch
by Brian Matt from DC Laus Deo

How would you describe your blogging in a 30 second elevator speech?
 
If you are blogging about serious things like faith or politics, you need to…
 …read the full post Kicking Your Blog Up a Notch
 

Do you have tips or tutorials for the Catholic Blog Academy?  Email Catholic Bloggers Academy for your opportunity to guest post.  We’re happy to include links to your blog!    

 

Year of Faith and October Saints Link-Ups and Resources

Join us at Equipping Catholic Families for the first ever Year of Faith Link Up!  Add your reflections, activities, Catechism teaching strategies and other Year of Faith posts here and help us build an awesome resource!

Do you have activities, crafts, celebrations or reflections on any of the awesome OCTOBER saints?
Please link your ideas at Cele-LINKY with the SAINTS: OCTOBER
and check out the ideas of other Catholic Bloggers!
Watch for a Cele-LINKY: ALL SAINTS Edition coming soon at Equipping Catholic Families.
Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centred crafts!

Guest Post: Help for Aspiring Bloggers

First Guest Post at the Catholic Blog Academy

Help for Aspiring Bloggers.

by James Pattrick

So, you’ve got a blog with some regular visitors who seem to enjoy your writing. What do you want to do next? …read the full post Help for Aspiring Bloggers

Do you have tips or tutorials for the Catholic Blog Academy?  Email Catholic Bloggers Academy for your opportunity to guest post.  We’re happy to include links to your blog!