How to Make Your Command Center Catholic

Lis Luwia July 22, 2019

A command center is always a good idea if you like to be organized, have a big family, lots of moving parts, and you want everyone on the same page… or wall. 😉

But when you’re moving full speed ahead, how can you remember to look to Heaven in those moments throughout your week?

Let’s make a Catholic command center! It’s just like your command center, but with bells and whistles that will keep you on track to grow in prayer throughout the month and bring the people closest to you closer to Jesus too!

Not only are these some essential steps to creating a Catholic command center, but these printables are excellent tools for organizing your Catholic prayer life!

And…..Here’s the free printables to make your Command Center Catholic!

This is our family’s command center. I wiped the personal stuff so you can see it really well and not get distracted by our *stuff* going on.

In the center is our main calendar where we note anything the family is doing outside of the house: daily Mass, Bible study, soccer practice, etc. It’s the heart beat of keeping us all organized!

On the top left, you can see the Weekly Organizer where I can track my “to do’s” for the week, who I need to call, etc.

Below it is our Meal Calendar so I can better manage groceries purchases and the kids know what they’re getting (ha!)

I also made this one for those of you who like color and a different layout!

To the right of the calendar is our Saint Study sheet. This really helps me to pick a feast day and saint to focus on every month. Sometimes I get too excited by all the feast days and want to celebrate all of them in every way possible and… well, that’s just not possible!

This Saint Study helps me to focus and dive deeper into one saint. It also helps the kids to remember that saint and what they have in common with him or her later on!

Below that is our Weekly Homeschooling Schedule. It’s the bread and butter of our education and so, so important to making sure we stay on top of everything!

If you don’t homeschool or you prefer to swap out some of my organizing papers with someone more prayer-sustaining, check out these printables!

(Press the right arrow to flip through the pages)

They are excerpts from My Catholic Prayer Journal: Pocket Edition. I created them to help me focus on my prayer life and grow in my relationship with Jesus Christ every month. They really do help!

Below the calendar is our Weekly Cleaning Schedule (sourced from the Printable Crush blog) and two daily cleaning magnet flaps for my big kids.

My kids loooooove these magnet flaps. It turned one of my chore haters into a kid excited about doing the magnet flaps… after getting her chores done. 😉 It took me a bit of DIY time to make it, but it’s worth it for our family! Here are the directions to DIY it.

Above the calendar is the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary… perfect for the Summer and focus on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and on the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but also a special devotion for our family. That’s why they get an important place in our home: right smack in the middle of our busy schedule!

And of course: Christ crucified. Take a moment to contemplate on His Passions and the worries of the day will become so much less.

I swap out the prayer card on the calendar for certain months and feast days. If we’re focusing on St. Therese of Lisieux in October, then I will have her prayer card up on the calendar. Likewise, in April we focused on Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday so we had a prayer card of Jesus’ resurrection and an image of Divine Mercy.

Make it your own, just don’t make it complicated. This is a source to help you find balance in your life, between the busyness of the day, organizing everything, and bringing it back to God to find peace.

Here’s where to get everything you need to copy this Catholic Command Center and organize your life:

Now, having this awesome Catholic command center doesn’t mean I can all of the sudden DO IT ALL! I am not a seven-armed mother who can conquer the world.

But, by organizing, being a good steward of my time and resources, and bringing them to Christ before bringing them to fruition, I allow Christ to work through me… which, in turn, allows me to accomplish more things for His glory. Let your life be prioritized and organized in that fashion.

God bless you; JMJ

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