The Pelican Project
By The Pelican Project
The Pelican ProjectDec 19, 2023
Leading the Way
On the 3rd Sunday of Advent, we read Mary's Magnificat. Everything about Mary pointed others to her Son, Jesus. We are called to do the same. Want to learn more about our mission to joyfully Reawaken a Culture of Life? Visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Lord, let us see Your Kingdom
Join us this week for the 2nd week of Advent as we discuss how we encounter Christ in a tangible way. For more information on our mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life, visit us at www.pelicanprojectministry.org
Advent with the PSALMS!
Join us this first week of Advent as we dive into our Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional series Advent with the Psalms!
Want to learn more about our mission to Reawaken a Culture of Life? Visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org!
The Rearview and the Windshield
This week, as the liturgical year comes to an end, we are taking some time to reflect back on the milestones and look forward to the opportunities of the year ahead. Don't miss the sneak peeks of what is to come! Want to learn more about our mission to Reawaken a Culture of Life? Visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Sharing God's Goodness
Pull up a chair to our table and join us as we dive deeper into this week's Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional and talk about using our gifts to share God's goodness! Want to learn more about our mission to joyfully Reawaken a Culture of Life? Visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Reflecting His Light
Hello, friends! Pull up a chair and join us as we talk about what it means to reflect His light in our lives, to join John the Baptist in saying "He must increase, but I must decrease" and the ripple effect that creates in our families. For more about our mission to reawaken a culture of life in the domestic church, visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
The MOST Important Teacher
Join us this week as we discuss a not-always-easy and neat lesson (sometimes downright messy) we must teach our kids as their most important teachers. To learn more about our mission to reawaken a culture of life in the domestic church, visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
The Miracle of the Mass
Pull up a chair and join us this week as we discuss the absolute Miracle of the Mass and the gift of the Eucharist.
To learn more about our mission to reawaken a culture of life, visit www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Breaking Bread with My Family
Pull up a chair and join us this week we discuss how family meals are a part of God's design for the health of the domestic church and affirm the dignity of the human person.
Want to learn more about our mission to reawaken a culture of life? Visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org!
Creating a Space to Pray
Join us this week as we discuss the benefits of creating a space to pray in our homes and what it has to do with reawakening a culture of life. For more about The Pelican Project and our mission to reawaken a culture of life, visit www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
What is Spiritual Adoption?
Pull up a chair and join us this week as we talk about an incredibly powerful prayer. The Venerable Fulton Sheen encouraged the faithful to "spiritually adopt" an unborn child in danger of being aborted and their parents. Sheen proclaimed with the holy boldness he is so well known for that this prayer—this intentional action of the heart—would save lives. In this week's episode, Kelly will explain how she knows this to be true.
Pray, Grow, and Serve with us using this week's devotional!
October's Little Way
Inspired by St. Therese's Little Way, we invite you to join us in our October's Little Way calendar in honor of Respect Life Month! St. Therese’s “little way” encourages us as parents to embrace every opportunity in our day-to-day to pour Christ’s love and truth into the heart of our home.
Visit our October's Little Way calendar here!
The Power Found in Suffering
Welcome friends! Pull up a chair and join us for the Season 2 premiere of The Pelican Project Podcast! We have a very special guest to help us start the season off right, please welcome Fr. John Paul Mary of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. Today, Fr. John Paul helps us tackle the not so easy subject of redemptive suffering and the power that suffering can have in our lives.
Don't forget to Pray, Grow, and Serve with us this week using our weekly devotional!
To learn more about The Pelican Project and our mission to Reawaken a Culture of Life visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org!
Courtship of the Saints
Pull up a chair and join us as we talk with TAN Books author Patrick O'Hearn and discuss his new book Courtship of the Saints: How the Saints Met Their Spouses.
Don't miss your chance to receive a free copy of Patrick's book by visiting our website and Pledging to Reawaken a Culture of Life in your domestic church! (August 1 - August 4)
www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Love and Marriage - Season Finale
Join us for our Season Finale as we talk about love and marriage. Pull up a chair and let's discuss!
To learn more about The Pelican Project's mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life, visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Chatting with Fr. Uncle Sam
Pull up a chair and join us this week as we sit down to chat with Father Peter Pomposello, @fr.unclesam, about family and vocation.
For more about The Pelican Project and our mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life visit www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org.
Man's Temptations
Satan tempts man away from flourishing within his masculine gifts and responsibilities through deception and distraction. Man simply cannot be the protector and provider God created him to be if he does not first have mastery over his own desires and passions and the temptations Satan sends his way.
To learn more about The Pelican Project and our mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life, visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org Mentioned in this week's episode
A Time To Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life by Nicolas Diat
A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare - Strategies for Deliverance and Healing by Kathleen Beckman, L.H.S.
Into the Breach - An Apostolic Exhortation by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted
Initiators, Protectors, and Promoters of Love
While the Father, Son and Holy Spirit act as one—we can examine each Person of the Trinity to derive a better understanding of who God created men to be. To learn more about The Pelican Project's mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life, visit us at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Find this week's Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional here!
Into the Breach by Bishop Olmsted
Into the Breach video series by The Knights of Columbus inspired by the Apostolic Exhortation by Bishop Olmsted
What Is A Man?
The masculine was lived in perfection throughout the life of Jesus Christ; therefore, men are called in a unique way to live the Imitatio Christi through the perfection of their masculinity. Pull up a chair and let's discuss!
To learn more about our mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life, visit our website at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
For Better of For Worse
Join Kelly and Crystal as they discuss God's design for spousal love, how He calls husbands and wives to "be subordinate to one another" and how the culture gets it wrong.
Pray, Grow, and Serve with us using this week's devotional!
Learn more about our mission to joyfully reawaken a culture of life at www.PelicanProjectMinistry.org
Gifts of the Feminine Genius
In this week's episode, we're talking about the beautiful gifts of the feminine genius using the wise words of Edith Stein as inspiration! Pull up a chair and let's discuss...
Be sure to download your FREE copy of this week's Pray, Grow, and Serve Devotional to discuss these gifts with your kiddos!
She Is Priest, Prophet, and King
Women are called to live out the role of priest, prophet, and king through their uniquely feminine gifts. Our Blessed Mother shows us the dignity of living out the offices of priest, prophet, and king as a woman. Pull up a chair and let's discuss!
What does it mean to be a girl?
Conversations about gender are happening EVERYWHERE. From television to movies, music, books, and social media there is no escaping it. Let's make sure that our kids hear the Truth about God's design for the feminine and masculine from us before the culture tries to explain it to them. Join us for this week's episode as we discuss the question... What does it mean to be a girl?
Take up your cross daily.
Let us anchor ourselves in Christ’s command to “take up your cross daily and follow me.” (Lk 9:23) When we choose to live as a witness to Christ’s love in today’s culture we are saying “yes” to the cross. Make no mistake, our Lord knows the culture we face in 2023; He knows the weight of the cross we bear upon our shoulders and the difficult journey ahead. He chose us for today, we were chosen for this spiritual battle. We must trust that He equips us with the grace necessary to carry our cross across this battlefield with eyes fixed on heaven. Show extras - You can find more about the shoulder wound of Christ, including the prayer here.
Jesus, I trust in You.
Join Kelly and Crystal as they discuss trusting Jesus in ALL things and the power of His Divine Mercy.
For those interested in checking out the book Kelly mentioned, it is called Divine Mercy for Moms, written by Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet,
Hope Is an Anchor
Pull up a chair and join us, friends! This week we are talking about Hope.
Our one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church is a living sign of hope—the certainty that God is faithful to His promises, that His grace is life-giving, and that our weakness is made perfect in His strength. We cannot reawaken a culture that bears witness to the sanctity of human life apart from the Church.
So too, then our home, the domestic church, must also be a living sign of hope. Within the heart of the family, hope is an anchor that holds us steady when the world rages. We cannot reawaken a culture that bears witness to the sanctity of human life apart from God's design for the family.
Pray, Grow, and Serve with us using our weekly devotional!
Email us at Crystal@PelicanProjectMinistry.org and let us know what resources you are using and how they are working for your family.
Judas - Eyelash to Eyelash
For many parents, our past looks different than the future we desire for our children. If you can relate, allow this to be an opportunity to teach them the power of God’s mercy. Let us all have the courage and humility to let go of our past with a contrite heart and say, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
As a parent, there are times when you will fall. There are times when your past will catch up with the present, and you'll feel too low to keep walking, too low to keep having these important conversations with your kids... Don't stop....continue to pray, grow, and serve with us!
What I Have Failed To Do
Join Kelly and Crystal as they talk about having uncomfortable conversations. Conversations about topics we don't feel we have the language to communicate well, conversations we know we should be having, but don't hear other parents having either... These are the lessons that help our children flourish within the moral law on topics where evil is most likely to tempt them.
Keeping Our Gaze On Heaven
This week we focus on the importance of keeping our gaze on heaven through life's trials and tribulations. Do your children see you living in sadness and despair or resting in the gaze of our victorious Savior? Does your spouse see your eyes fixed on the worldly or the eternal? Do your coworkers and friends instinctually lift their gaze towards hope and love when they are around you? Follow along with this week's reflections in our Lenten study Unvarnished Canvas!
Who have you sent to the well at noon?
Pull up a chair and join us as we dive into the Unvarnished Canvas reflections from the 3rd week of Lent. Today we must ask ourselves these questions. How do we see the people we come into contact with each day? Is it through His eyes or through the eyes of the world? Have we been complicit in not honoring the dignity of another?
Listen to Him
Join Kelly and Crystal as they discuss this week's Unvarnished Canvas reflections and explore the relationship between our earthly father and Heavenly Father.
Our Children Are Watching...
Join Kelly and Crystal as they discuss reflections from the first week of The Pelican Project's Lenten study Unvarnished Canvas.
As you raise your children in the faith and walk the storms that rage within this culture, know that the joy of His peace is only as far away as your heart. Your children are watching you.
If you make your faith a to-do list, they will too. But, if they see you walk with Christ and seek wholeness and rest through Him, they will follow.
Stumbles you make along the way, if you stay within His embrace, will be a sign of His strength, not your weakness, and they will follow.
As you strive to accept your identity as His son or daughter, as you strive to hear Him in the stillness of your heart, as you work to glorify Him in those around you, they will too. They will follow because a piece of their heart rests in you too.
Pray, grow, and serve with your child this week with our weekly devotional.
What is Lent?
Lent is upon us! We are blessed to journey alongside you and your wonderful family toward the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord this Lent. Together, we will enter the desert for a season of spiritual growth focusing on the sanctity of life, the mercy of God, the gift of redemption, and our call to the discipleship of parenting that must begin by affirming the dignity of who God created us to be in His image and likeness.
Our fervent prayer is that you will join us each week as we learn to radically rest in God's love and let it change everything. He will never ask more of you than He equips you to handle.
We invite your entire family to pray, grow, and serve together with us as we prepare for Easter with our Lenten study, Unvarnished Canvas. Use the weekly children’s devotional to pray together. Help your children to grow in understanding of our beautiful faith. And, teach them to serve with the hands and heart of Christ. Begin this week with our “What is Lent” guide!
Objectifying the Body and Denying the Soul
In this week's episode, Kelly and Crystal talk about how our culture is rationalizing the objectification of our bodies and denying the soul. We, especially our children, have an inherent desire to be seen, known, and loved. But, while beauty extends an invitation to share in divine goodness and truth, images that objectify-pornography-send a deceitful message that to be seen, known, and loved is to be used. While the lie of pornography has woven itself into the very fabric of our worldly culture, the truth of what it means to be seen, known, and loved is woven into the very design of our bodies.
We invite you to Pray, Grow, and Serve with us using our weekly devotional. Would you like to receive our devotionals directly in your inbox each week? Sign up for our weekly emails here.
Modesty honors beauty
The created world around us drips with the beauty of our Lord, but nothing reveals His beauty like a human person created in His image and likeness.
We are created with great purpose. The unique particularities of who God created us to be are a gift—through them, we reveal God’s beauty to the world in a way that no one else can. Truly this is the light of God that dwells within each of us.
The virtue of modesty in dress and behavior protects this precious gift; it protects the intimate center of our being where the life and light of God dwell.
Teaching our children the virtue of modesty shows them how incredibly marvelous and unique their heavenly Father created them!
Can you believe that Lent is right around the corner? Are you ready? We would love to have you join us for our Lenten study, Unvarnished Canvas!
Out of His mind!
Pull up a chair and join Kelly and Crystal as they discuss how our freedom is found within God's law.
Pray, Grow, and Serve as a family with us this week using our weekly devotional!
Called to Encounter
Our mission is to joyfully reawaken a culture of LIFE by supporting parents in the holy (and necessary!) work of teaching their children about the dignity of human life.
How is this done? In short, we Plant seeds. Grow deep roots. Form disciples. Celebrate LIFE! This week, we focus on the need to form disciples and the importance of encounter.
Talk with your child about Christ’s invitation to be “fishers of men" with our Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional!
I love you more than chocolate cake.
This week we are talking about unconditional, sacrificial, saving love.
With the anniversary of the now defunct Roe v Wade, the topic of abortion will take center stage in conversations throughout the nation. As a parent, you may recognize the different ways the culture is grooming your child to accept precepts of abortion —i.e., that truth is subjective, love is conditional, and life has value when "wanted" or "useful." These precepts are painful distortions of love that bear tragic fruit in our culture—abortion, euthanasia, pornography, gender confusion, and the list goes on and on.
How do we counter such lies? Love. There is one truth that cuts through the ignorance of abortion—love—the unconditional, sacrificial, saving love of God.
This week have an intentional conversation with your child about the truth of God's love using our Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional and our Created to Love LIFE Focus Guide. You can download them both for free HERE!
Seek with Confidence!
Today we're talking about the the urgent, intentional, and confident Magi seeking our Lord in the arms of His Mother!
Here is a link to this week's Pray, Grow, Serve to help you talk with your kids about confidently seeking Christ.
Dignity of the Unborn Bundle
In this week's episode, Kelly and Crystal talk about The Pelican Project's Dignity of the Unborn bundle. This month is the March for Life (20th) and the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn (23rd). This gives us a wonderful opportunity to discuss the dignity of the unborn with our children. The Pelican Project can help! Download our Dignity of the Unborn bundle and you will receive...
Elementary Age: “Protecting the Unborn,” “A Child’s Guide to Spiritual Adoption,” “Exploring the Development of an Unborn Baby” & “Made in His image.”
Teen/Adult: “Exploring the Development of an Unborn Baby” & “My Abortion Appointment(s).” Also, click here for access to our Spiritual Adoption page.
Pro-life New Year's Resolutions!
It's the time of year when many of us start reflecting on the year gone by and making resolutions for the year to come. Join Kelly and Crystal as they offer suggestions and resolutions of their own to help reawaken a Culture of LIFE!
Links we promised...
Pray the Litany of Humility.
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Check out these picks from Kelly's book list...
Adam and Eve After the Pill, Mary Eberstadt
The Unaborted Socrates: The Dramatic Debate on Issues Surrounding Abortion, Dr. Peter Kreeft
Life Issues, Medical Choices: Questions and Answers for Catholics, Dr. Janet Smith
Persuasive Prolife, Trent Horn
Making Sense Out of Suffering, Dr. Peter Kreeft
Catholic Bioethics, William May
Man and Woman, He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, John Paul II
If You Really Loved Me, Jason Evert
Fighting for Life, Lila Rose
Made for Love, Fr. Mike Schmitz
Dignity of Family & Controversial PSA!
It's the final week of Advent! As we rush to complete our preparations, let's talk about taking time to realize some of the holiest prayers we can offer Him are the work of the vocation He has given us.
Plant seeds. Grow deep roots. Form Disciples. Celebrate LIFE!
We invite you to pray, grow, and serve with us! Visit our weekly devotion page here!
Join us for The Jesse Tree!
Kelly in a brothel and other life lessons
Kelly talks about an interesting situation she once found herself in as we discuss God at work even when we don't understand it. That we must be open to being His hands and feet.
If today was your last day...
In this week's episode Kelly and Crystal talk about preparing for Christ with a sense of urgency.
Visit our website for this week's Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional.
Still looking for a way to celebrate Advent as a family? It's never too late to join us for The Jesse Tree!
The Jesse Tree!
Crystal and Kelly talk about The Jesse Tree as a tool to help families prepare for the coming of Christ!
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All the Gifts
Crystal and Kelly chat about the strange gift of "context," the humility of the gift of "support," and our call to "give thanks in all circumstances" as beautifully displayed in the Ravensbruck Prayer. This prayer was found beside the dead body of an unknown young girl who died in the Ravensbruck concentration camp.
“Oh Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the sufferings they have inflicted on us; Remember the fruits we have bought, thanks to this suffering — our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, our courage, our generosity, the greatness of heart which has grown out of all this, and when they come to judgement let all the fruits which we have borne be their forgiveness.”
College Football & Shining His Light
Today, Kelly and Crystal talk about what it means to reflect His light and love — even when it is hard.
Download this week's Pray, Grow, and Serve devotional to discuss reflecting His light and love with your children.
Learn more about Maria and Alessandro in Kelly's blog post Impossible Forgiveness.
Your child's MOST important teacher
Crystal and Kelly talk about the family as the "school of love" and parents as a child's most important teacher. Also! click here for this week's Pray, Grow, & Serve helps you talk to your kids about WHY you are their most important teacher.
Your questions answered!
You asked and we answered! Crystal and Kelly share about The Pelican Project, favorite saints, great books and how we met!
Hope in the Darkness
Hope in the Darkness - In this episode, Kelly and Crystal's paths collide when they begin to work together at a Pregnancy Resource Center. Together they share their difficult experiences working in this space.
Also! I shout out and thank you to the Catholic Women of the Chapel (CWOC) at JBLM for inviting us to speak at your gathering to learn more about The Pelican Project!
Read more about Kelly's story in Wandering Heart.