Catholic Calendar and Planner {Review ~ LOVE it!}

For years I have bought Catholic calendar/planners and I have been rather upset each time. Everyone of them was incomplete. They have only a few of the major feast day listed and they each focused on the feast days of ether the traditional or the new Catholic calendar.   

I’ve been looking for a calendar that lists all the feast days for both the new and old calendars. I also wanted it to have a complete list of the saints’ feast days for each and every day.  

After buying a number of calendar/planners I started to give up hope of finding that planner that gave me all that I was looking for. 

A few months ago, I found a Catholic planner on Amazon. This planner was published by Tan Books. I was very leery of trying it. I thought it would be just like the other planners I had bought. But since I needed a planner, I thought I would go ahead and try it. 

When the planner came in the mail, I was thrilled!! To my surprise it was just what I wanted!! 

Not only does it have both the old and the new calendar saints listed, it also has the Historical Saints Feast days! Plus, the saints’ feast days are listed for every day! The pages that list the saints feast days are nice to jot down any ideas I have for the day – like meal plans and other holy day plans, as well as, my appointments and activities. 

It also has month-at-a-glace pages. These are always a help when I need to schedule a doctor appointment! 

 In addition to that, it has pages with saints and their feast days listed in alphabetical order.

Plus, lists of patron saints, the 35 Doctors of the Church and the 14 Holy Helpers!

There are also a number of pages that explain what the abbreviations in the calendar mean. They also explain about fasting, abstinence, Ember days and more!! It’s a great little resource!

Then, there are the 70 saint illustration and short biographies! These are short easy-to-read stories that I have been reading to my kids as the feast day comes. 

It’s a great size, too. It measures about 8 inches by 5 inches and it fits in my purse. It easy to take along to appointments and meetings! Really, I’m thrilled with this calendar/planner! It’s great! Plus, it was way cheaper than the other planners I’ve tried! If you are looking for a new planner for this coming year I highly recommend this calendar/planner! The calendar has 16 months – it started in September, 2013 and goes till December, 2014. So if you buy it now you can start to use it right away!

Feel free to take a look and see what you think!

Hope this calendar can help you as much as it did me!

God bless!

~JenMarie