Tag: Easter baskets

  • Easter Gifts That Help You Celebrate the Real Meaning of Easter with Your Children

    No sooner has Valentine’s Day come and gone than stores start to fill their shelves with Easter goodies. The pastel baskets, plastic eggs and marshmallow chicks are popping out all over. Although most parents find great delight in purchasing gifts for their children, this is a holiday which offers tremendous opportunity for teaching the real…

  • Religious Gift Ideas:  Occasions to Celebrate the Walk of Faith

    Religious Gift Ideas: Occasions to Celebrate the Walk of Faith

    Hidden away from the hustle and bustle of city life and snugged into the rolling hills of northern Missouri, Conception Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks devoted to lives of prayer and Christian service. The monks serve in the role of parish priest when needed, but their chief concern, apart from prayer,…

  • Easter Ideas for Kids: More Meaning, Less Hype

    Easter is a holiday that can be extra meaningful when shared with a child. Anyone walking the aisles of the local grocery has already begun to see shelves loaded down with neon plastic and chocolate in preparation for the Easter season. Yet Christian parents may feel that wrapped chocolates and plastic grass, while pretty, might…