The Catholic Mother's Planner for 2025

Sherry Hayes Peirce reviews a planner designed for busy moms who want to schedule their days around faith-filled practices.

Catholic Mother's Planner

Published by Our Sunday Visitor

As the year comes to a close, it is time to shop for a new planner for 2025. The Catholic Mothers Planner, published by Our Sunday Visitor, is thoughtfully compiled as a tool for Catholic moms to plan the year focused on faith. It’s beautifully designed with Polish floral illustrations inspired by Pope John Paul II and the beatified Ulma Family.   

A group of Catholic moms contributed to the content of the planner; they provide the perfect balance of standard and niche elements for busy women and moms to schedule their days around faith-filled practices. It is illustrated to be experiential for users of this tool, helping them incorporate their Catholic practices into their daily lives. It is chock full of quotes from the saints and many historical facts about the origins of our faith.   

The book begins with making Catholic Resolutions that call you to choose a saint to pray for their intercession, make a pilgrimage, plan visits to the Blessed Sacrament, pray for priests, and go to Confession.    

Like any planner, it arranges the calendar in a monthly and then weekly view, with each day laid out in vertical blocks that allow for lots of space for writing. The first page of every month of the weekly review provides space for a meal plan for the entire month! That’s a great place to write down some of the meatless meals featured here on CatholicMom.com. In the back of the book is a section with recipes and space to add some of your own — an excellent way to start preparing for Lenten dinners now. 

Schedule your Catholic practices  

A monthly spiritual challenge helps you focus prayer around the month's devotional theme. There’s also a personal tracker to help you develop prayer habits. Trackers are great for creating routines for praying the Rosary, novenas, Confession, Adoration, and more. What a fantastic tool for building new habits.   

We are called to employ the Ignatian practice of an Examen to help us grow in faith daily. This guide provides a customized Examination of Conscience for Mothers. It also provides a monthly Lectio Divina focused on Scripture associated with the monthly Catholic devotional themes. 

Plan personal and liturgical celebrations  

There is a section to list all your loved ones' birthdays for the year and a date night planner to schedule time with your husband. The feasts on the liturgical calendar are printed on the monthly pages. This planner even provides some activities for Catholic moms serving as catechists.  

This is a perfect gift for Catholic mothers on your Christmas list.  

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