AUGUST 1 | Friday | Lammas | Begin preparing your Almanac bookmarks!
WEEK OF AUGUST 4 | August festal focus launches with printables & reflections
AUGUST 10 | Sunday | Feast of St. Lawrence (our August focus)
AUGUST 15 | Friday | The Solemnity of the Assumption of the BVM
AUGUST 23 | Saturday at 10 am Pacific Time | Book club discussion with author Francesca Kay
» For Paid Members: We’ll be discussing Francesca Kay’s beautiful historical fiction - The Book of Days - with the author herself!
AUGUST 24 | Sunday | Bartlemas
AUGUST 27 | Wednesday at 1 pm Pacific Time | Discussion with author
» For Paid Members: Let’s hang out with Haley, award-winning author, the Editor of Word on Fire Votive, and host of the Votive Podcast - author of one of my favorite liturgical cookbooks!
AUGUST 30 | Saturday at 11 am Pacific | Book of Hours Make-a-long
» For All Subscribers: I’ll be hopping onto Substack Live to chat with all subscribers as I build the summer months of a liturgical year binder! Bring your binder & supplies (or not!), and let’s puzzle through this together.LAST HALF OF AUGUST | Botanical Liturgy: Linden
» On my (surprise) pilgrimage in July, I was struck by the linden trees in bloom around a historic Mission church. We’ll be digging into the Christian symbolism of this meaningful tree. (Thank you for your patience as I’ve continued to meditate on this tree’s role in Church tradition - and in my own life!)
LAST HALF OF AUGUST | Book of Hours (Part 3)
» Let’s keep working on our liturgical year binders - now that we’ve collected our summertime resources (Part 1) and sorted them with new printables (Part 2), let’s continue to flesh things out.
EXPLORE THE VILLAGE
» WELCOME
WHAT IS THE CHURCH YEAR?
Whether you’re new to the liturgical year or familiar with it, this post helps to give you a sense of how I’m exploring the Church calendar - informed by agrarian heritage - in my locale and in this online space.ABOUT
Learn a bit more about Hearthstone Fables (and your hostess, Kristin), as well as what to expect as a subscriber or a paid member.
» ALL SUBSCRIBERS
EXPLORE BY SEASON
Sift through posts sorted by month, liturgical season, and natural season.
ARCHIVE
You can access my chronological archive of posts here! One to two posts each month are shared with all subscribers, while additional posts are available to paid members.SUBSCRIBER CHAT
Join in a discussion with subscribers - and keep an eye out for occasional bits of news or announcements popping into the Chat.
» PAID MEMBERS
In addition to exploring the spaces above, you may also want to venture to…
SCRIPTORIUM
This space is filled with all of my printable artwork and resources spanning the Church year, for all ages! Coloring pages, cards, packets for your liturgical living binder, interactive paper scenes, and more are available to help you bring ancient traditions into your modern life and landscape.BOOK CLUB
As a paid member, you can join us for live Zoom discussions (sometimes featuring the authors themselves!) of our seasonal book club selections. Recordings of our gatherings are archived in the Book Club posts, so you can enjoy the replay even if you couldn’t be there live.LITURGICAL LIFE GROUP BEHIND-THE-SCENES
We host a monthly liturgical living group, and you’re invited to join (from afar) through re-caps of our gatherings.MEMBER-ONLY ZOOM DISCUSSIONS & POSTS
Throughout the year, we enjoy a variety of live Zoom chats with special guests who help to illuminate our engagement with the Church year. All of our discussions are recorded, so you can watch arhives of these festive discussions!
If you’d like to explore the idea of cultivating a liturgical living group in your own neck of the woods, I’m here to help support you & brainstorm ideas to help it fit your own life and landscape. I can chat with you via email or the Voxer app!
As you leave the village, consider these destinations…
SIGNS + SEASONS GUILD
This guild helps to support the efforts of liturgical living folks here on Substack! Featuring a member directory, as well as periodic posts that gather seasonal articles from different authors.SHOP
Though most of my creations are available as printables in the Scriptorium, some are available for sale through Etsy!
Please always feel free to reach out with any questions or thoughts!