Schooling by the Saints: The Catholic Homeschool Planner for Moms Who Are Tired of Starting Over Every Fall

Every August, a lot of Catholic homeschooling mothers do the same thing: they rebuild their entire planning system from scratch, again. New curriculum, new schedule, new good intentions, and by October it has already fallen apart. Schooling by the Saints was written to break that cycle. It is a Catholic homeschool planner and workbook built around the liturgical year, so the plan you build in August is designed to actually hold through Advent, Lent, and beyond.

Unlike a printable calendar with a few saint quotes in the margins, Schooling by the Saints is a full guided workbook: 25 chapters, 20 worksheets, and 7 sections that walk a Catholic homeschooling mother from her mission and her child's needs all the way through curriculum choice, weekly rhythm, and record-keeping.

What Is Schooling by the Saints?

Schooling by the Saints is a liturgical year workbook for Catholic homeschooling mothers, delivered as an instant-download PDF. It is priced at $19.99 and formatted for standard letter size, so it prints cleanly at home or at a local print shop the same day you buy it.

The workbook is organized into seven sections:

1. Your Why, Your Mission, Your Child (Chapters 1 to 3): child profile worksheets built to be revisited every year, done before a single curriculum decision gets made
2. Curriculum Without Paralysis (Chapters 4 to 7): what curriculum actually is, the five homeschool methods explained simply, and Catholic curriculum options laid out side by side
3. Your Planning System (Chapters 8 to 13): building the school year around the liturgical calendar, monthly planning in under 30 minutes, and record-keeping without the stress
4. Lesson Planning Made Fast (Chapters 14 to 18): a 10-minute lesson plan method, unit study planning, and teaching multiple ages at once
5. Rhythm (Chapters 19 to 21): rhythm versus schedule, morning routines that anchor the day, and what to do when everything falls apart
6. The Hard Things (Chapters 22 to 24): homeschooling through pregnancy and hard seasons, getting a spouse on board, and finding community
7. You (Chapter 25): a chapter on the mother's own soul and vocation, not just her students

Twenty worksheets are included throughout, some meant to be filled in once, like the mission statement and child profiles, and others designed to be printed and reused all year, including the monthly planning page, weekly plan template, weekly record sheet, and lesson plan template.

Why Search for a Catholic Homeschool Planner Built Around the Liturgical Year

Most homeschool planners on the market are built around a standard academic calendar with a few religious extras layered on top. A true Catholic homeschool planner works the other way around: the liturgical seasons, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time, form the actual backbone of the school year, not a decoration on it.

Schooling by the Saints is built specifically for this. It is compatible with both the Novus Ordo and Traditional Latin Mass liturgical calendars, so it works whether a family attends the ordinary form or the extraordinary form parish, and it works with any curriculum and any homeschool method, whether that is classical, Charlotte Mason, unschooling, unit studies, or a mix of several.

Who Schooling by the Saints Is Built For

This workbook is written for Catholic homeschooling mothers at any stage, whether it is her first year or her tenth, with one child or seven, running a highly structured classroom-style day or a relaxed, interest-led rhythm. That flexibility matters because most homeschool planners assume a single style of homeschooling. Schooling by the Saints instead gives a mother the framework to build a system around her own family, her own children, and her own liturgical calendar, rather than forcing her into someone else's structure.

It is especially useful for:

• New homeschooling mothers who need a starting framework instead of a blank page
• Experienced homeschooling mothers who are tired of rebuilding their system every fall and want something that holds
• Large families managing multiple ages and curricula at once, thanks to the unit study and multi-age teaching chapters
• Mothers in a hard season, whether that is a new baby, pregnancy, or a season where the plan needs to flex without falling apart entirely

How It's Different from a Standard Homeschool Planner

A typical homeschool planner gives a mother a calendar grid and hopes the planning happens somewhere else. Schooling by the Saints is a workbook first and a planning tool second. It walks through the actual thinking, why this curriculum, why this rhythm, why this schedule, before handing over the templates to execute it. That is why it reads chapter by chapter rather than functioning only as a fill-in-the-blank calendar, and why the reusable templates come after the reasoning rather than replacing it.

Frequently Asked Questions About Schooling by the Saints

What is Schooling by the Saints? Schooling by the Saints is a Catholic homeschool planner and liturgical year workbook. It includes 25 chapters, 20 worksheets, and 7 sections covering everything from choosing curriculum to building a weekly rhythm around the liturgical calendar.

Is Schooling by the Saints a physical planner or a digital download? It is delivered as one instant-download PDF file. You can print it at home or at a local print shop on standard letter size paper (8.5 x 11).

Does Schooling by the Saints work with the Traditional Latin Mass calendar? Yes. It is compatible with both the Novus Ordo and Traditional Latin Mass liturgical calendars, so it works for families in either community.

Does Schooling by the Saints work with any homeschool curriculum? Yes. It is designed to work with any curriculum and any homeschool method, including classical, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, and relaxed or interest-led approaches.

Is this planner only for new homeschooling mothers? No. It is built for Catholic homeschooling mothers at any stage, whether this is a first year or a tenth year, with one child or several.

Build a School Year That Actually Holds

Schooling by the Saints is available now for $19.99 at Ludus Catholic Games. Pair it with the full JMJ Catholic Planner collection for daily and weekly structure, or explore Holy Scholars for additional unit studies and curriculum supplements to round out the school year.