Exploring Nature + Parables Bundle

Exploring Nature with the Saints

You know that each part of creation is an invitation for our children to learn and to meet our Creator… but planning faith-focused adventures with your kids feels like too much. You regret not pointing your children to Christ in the beauty of creation, but don’t know how to add meaning and Catholic instruction to your outdoor adventures with them.

Product Description

Catholic parents need a simple, ready-to-use guide that transforms everyday outdoor moments into encounters with God.

Exploring Nature with the Saints is that guide. This 160-page nature study covers 34 topics, from soil and seeds to birds and the night sky. Zero prep required. 

For each topic, your family is invited to dive into fascinating facts about nature, meet a saint who loved that corner of creation, conduct a simple experiment, and discover the Biblical connection that ties it all together.

Through it all, Nature becomes a classroom where God is the teacher.

Bring God Along on Your Adventures

With Exploring Nature with the Saints, every walk, every visit to the beach, and every afternoon in the garden becomes a real opportunity to point your children to God. They learn to see creation the way the saints did — with wonder, gratitude, and faith.

Without Exploring Nature with the Saints, these precious moments pass, and the connection between the world your children love and the God who made it remains unnoticed.

If you are a Catholic parent determined to help your children find God in the world around them, then purchasing and using Exploring Nature with the Saints is the right decision.

Explore Nature With the Saints!

Just imagine heading outside with your children for the afternoon. You grab Exploring Nature with the Saints, and together you discover that St. Francis talked to the birds, that seeds have to die before they can grow, and that the saints saw God everywhere they looked. They found Him in the soil, the sky, and every living thing.

You and your children begin to realize that THIS is what it means to be holy — to see God's goodness all throughout the created world.

Your child asks a question, and you look up the answer together. You learn about trees, bugs, rivers, and flowers, and the saint who loved these things too. Exploring Nature with the Saints has allowed your children to see God in the world He made.

Age Recommendation

Exploring Nature with the Saints is designed to serve children from Kindergarten through 8th grade, with varying levels of adult involvement depending on the child's age. Ideally, it would be used by a whole family.

Product Specifications

• Printed in full, vibrant color
• 8.5" x 11", spiral-bound
• 160 pages
• Divided into 6 sections, 34 individual topics

Topics Included:

Earth, Soil, Rocks, Fossils, Seeds, Leaves, Flowers, Trees, Water, Rivers, Lakes, Beaches, Air, Weather, Clouds, Rain, Wind, Lightning and Thunder, Snow, Sun, The Night Sky, Fire, Organisms, Insects, Spiders, Birds, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Rodents, Pets, Dogs, Cats, Prayer in Nature

Access a deeper and more complete understanding of Christ’s teaching in the Parables. Wonderful for homeschooling families, or any family eager to learn from Christ.

Product Description

The Parables of Jesus is a Scripture Study that closely examines twelve of Jesus’s parables. Designed to be used by an entire family with children at various ages, the following are provided for each parable:

• Complete Biblical text of the parable.
• Various pieces of Sacred Art that depict the parable.
• An explanation that places the parable within the Biblical narrative.
• Important lessons that allow us to understand what Jesus’s audience already understood (Jewish customs, how a seed sprouts, how a vineyard is tended, etc).
• The biography of a Saint who lived the lesson presented in this parable.
• A fun activity designed to foster understanding or our willingness to live the lesson Christ taught.

Yes, we have heard the parables before, but there is still so much to discover in these stories! Open your heart to God’s lessons and take your family deeper into Christ’s teaching.

Teach Your Children As Jesus Taught

Jesus used the parables to teach 2,000 years ago. Since that time, the Church has consistently used the parables to teach, and we should do the same in our homes!

Stories are powerful--and as parents we should use the parables as we endeavor to teach our children to live moral lives as faithful followers of Christ.

The parables reveal the Kingdom of God, call us to conversion, reveal God’s mercy, form our conscience, and teach us humility. 

The Parables of Jesus unpacks the parables and sheds new light on them, so you can bring these lessons to your children.

The Parables of Jesus explores the following 12 parables:

1. House Built On Rock
2. The Sower and the Seeds
3. Pearl of Great Price
4. Unforgiving Servant
5. The Good Samaritan
6. The Prodigal Son
7. The Rich Man and Lazarus
8. Laborers in the Vineyard
9. The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
10. The 10 Virgins
11. The Parable of the Talents
12. The Sheep and the Goats 

Find Jesus in the Parable

Jesus is in each parable.

He is the Good Shepherd seeking the lost sheep, the merciful Father welcoming the prodigal son, the generous landowner, and the judge separates the sheep and the goats.

Studying the parables helps Catholics think like Christ, live like Christ, and love like Christ.

But beyond this, studying the parables can lead to a genuine encounter with Christ our Lord.

Age Recommendations

The Parables of Jesus was created for the Whole Family. Although most children in fifth grade or older could use the study on their own, it was not intended to be used this way. Instead, The Parables of Jesus was designed to be led by a parent to children of various ages.

Product Specifications

The Parables of Jesus is:

• 8.5” x 11”
• Spiral Bond
• Full Color
• Sturdy Cover