HOBBY ENCOURAGING LOVING PRAYER
H.E.L.P.
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The below are free prayer bead sets, to encourage a loving and intimate relationship with God.
Matt. 6:6
"But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done ..." Excerpt from 'Contemplative Prayer' by Thomas Merton.
"In meditation, we should not look for a 'method' or a 'system' but cultivate an 'attitude' and 'outlook' : faith, openness, attention, reverence, expectation, supplication, trust, joy. All these finally permeate our being with love in so far as our living faith tells us we are in the presence of God, that we live in Christ, that in the Spirit of God we 'see' God the Father without seeing. Faith is the bond that unites us with Him in the Spirit who gives us light and love. |
The Path to a Life of Contemplation (walking with/in God) is found by being open to letting God find you. An awesome experiential life indeed
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~ Jesus Prayer Beads ~
This prayer experience is found in the silence of the soul. You are not praying for the purpose of just praying (often asking); you are praying in communion (common-union) with God. Although the suggested words or phrases below are repeated with each bead, the expectation is that the Holy Spirit (God) will infuse within you the grace of the mysteries of the Divine Kingdom, of which you are an heir. As promised in the Scripture, yes, you and I can know God, albeit dimly. Keep in mind (soul), as Son of God and Son of Man, Jesus is the complete revelation of God to us.
Originating in the 4th Century, the suggested words and phrases are repeated with a deep sense of heart (yours) within Heart (God’s):
“Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Traditionally (since the 4th Century) this is said with controlled breathing: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God" … is said as the breath is taken in, and … "have mercy on me, a sinner" … is said as the breath is let out.
You can use any word of love and/or praise God puts in your heart. You become a living prayer for God.
This prayer experience is found in the silence of the soul. You are not praying for the purpose of just praying (often asking); you are praying in communion (common-union) with God. Although the suggested words or phrases below are repeated with each bead, the expectation is that the Holy Spirit (God) will infuse within you the grace of the mysteries of the Divine Kingdom, of which you are an heir. As promised in the Scripture, yes, you and I can know God, albeit dimly. Keep in mind (soul), as Son of God and Son of Man, Jesus is the complete revelation of God to us.
Originating in the 4th Century, the suggested words and phrases are repeated with a deep sense of heart (yours) within Heart (God’s):
“Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Traditionally (since the 4th Century) this is said with controlled breathing: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God" … is said as the breath is taken in, and … "have mercy on me, a sinner" … is said as the breath is let out.
You can use any word of love and/or praise God puts in your heart. You become a living prayer for God.
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(#1) 100 ~ 6-7mm Black wooden beads with cross.
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(#2) 100 - 8mm redwood beads with cross.
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(#3) 33 - 10mm Ironwood beads. 33 beads to represent the 33 years of Jesus' life.
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(#4) 100 - 4-5mm wooden beads
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(#5) 9-10mm, 50 wooden beads with cross
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(#6) 33 - 8mm wooden beads. 33 beads to represent the 33 years of Jesus' life. 1 Red for Trinity.
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These beads have no special powers, nor do beads demand “favors” from God. The beads and their use ought to be blind to the user, in that the focus is God in Presence. In other words, commune with the God who graciously shares His Only Begotten Son, Jesus, in divinity and humanity, so that we can know in the deepest recesses of our souls a love and relationship beyond natural understanding. Yes, this relationship is indeed super-natural, based in Faith, Hope and Love. This is a prayer in meditation that opens us up to a path of least resistance to grow into a life of contemplation.
You, Beloved, builds yourseves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit." ~ Jude 20
(#7) 100 ~ 8mm Brown with black wooden beads and 10 bead cross.
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(#8) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads. May be used as a bracelet.
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(#9) 33 ~ 10mm wooden beads with cross.
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(#10) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads with cross.
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(#11) 33 ~ 10mm wooden beads with cross
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(#12) 50 ~ 10mm wooden beads with cross
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Other prayer options are as limitless as the Spirit leads.
“I love you, Father (God).” “I love you, Jesus.” “I love you, Most Holy Trinity.” “Mercy on me.” "Mercy." “Thank you, God.” “Thank you, Lord Jesus.” “Thank you, Lord, for your justice.” “All glory, honor and praise be to God” (In the silence, know the presence of God.) |
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"
~ Meister Eckhart: Dominican Monk, German Theologian, philosopher and mystic. "O God, we ponder your love within your temple," Ps. 48
"Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers |
(#13) 100 - 4-5mm Palmwood beads with Love & Cross.
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(#14) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads with cross
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(#15) 50 ~ 8mm wooden beads with cross. IXOYE + Fish symbol
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(#16) 100 ~ 10mm wooden yellow with red beads
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(#17) 50 ~ 8mm rosewood wooden beads with large cross.
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(#18) "Prayer Thread" 50 ~ 8mm Wooden beads
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Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while. . . .” (Is 26).
(#19) 100 ~ 8mm wooden Rosewood beads and cross
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(#20) "Prayer Thread" 33 ~ 8mm wooden beads
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(#21) 100 ~ 4-5mm Palmwood beads with cross
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> (#22) 100 ~ 8mm Rosewood and white beads
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(#23) 10 ~ 8mm wood beads
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(#24) 100 ~ 4-5mm wooden beads with Cross/PRAY
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Lastly, each cross is handmade, unique, rough, and not polished. The significance of this reflects the intimacy of the cross for each of us, in that Jesus meets each of us where He finds us, in our brokenness, pain and joy. In turn, we grow in the reflection of His continuous love on earth through divine silence, justice, joy, peace, and at times, pain ("Wounds are our glory,”... Julian of Norwich). In the spirit of the following words of Saint Benedict …we must pray to God “with all humility and purity of devotion … not in many words but in purity of heart and in the compunction of tears.” And let us always say “yes” to an ongoing surrender to God’s merciful love.
God bless your love journey through Jesus, in the Holy Spirit; and have it flow over to your families, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues.
God bless your love journey through Jesus, in the Holy Spirit; and have it flow over to your families, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues.
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."
—CCC, no. 2558, citing St. Therese of Lisieux, Manuscrits Autobiographiques, C 25rr
(#25) 50 ~ 10mm beads and cross
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(#26) 100 ~ 9-10mm Ironwood beads and cross. Elastic cord.
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(#27) 50 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross. Elastic cord.
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(#28) 50 ~ 8mm wooden beads with cross. Elastic cord.
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(#29) 33 ~ 8mm beads and cross
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(#30) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross.
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The Catechism clearly defines prayer as a "vital and personal relationship with the living and true God" (CCC, no. 2558). Prayer is Christian "insofar as it is communion with Christ" (CCC, no. 2565), and a "covenant relationship between God and man in Christ" (CCC, no. 2564).
(#31) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross
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(#32) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross
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(#33) 50 ~ 8mm Rosewood and black beads and 3 cross with "Love" on backside.
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(#34) 50 ~ 8mm Palmwood beads and cross
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(#35) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross
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(#36) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross
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Therefore, wait for Me,” declares the LORD, ... Zephaniah 3:8
(#37) 100 ~ 8mm wooden beads and cross
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(#38) 50 ~ 8mm Wooden beads and cross
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(#39) 50 ~ 8mm Wooden beads and cross
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(#40) 50 ~ 10mm Wooden beads and cross
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(#41) 33 ~ 10mam Wooden beads and cross
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(#42) "Prayer Thread" 33 ~ 8mm Wooden beads
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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
(#43) 100 ~ 8mm Wooden beads and Cross
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(#44) "Prayer Thread" 33 ~ 8mm Wooden beads
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(#45) 100 ~ 10mm Wooden beads and Cross
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(#46) 33 ~ 8mm wooden beads with cross
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(#47) 50 ~ 8mm Wooden beads and cross
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(#48) "Prayer Thread" 50 ~ 8mm Wooden beads and cross
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My (our) food is to do the will of the one (God) who sent me (us) to finish his work." Jn. 4:34
(#49) 100 ~ 8mm Rosewood beads, with cross.
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(#50) 50 ~ 8-10mm Brown and hello bead, with cross
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(#51) 50 ~ 8mm wood beads, with cross.
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(#52) 50 ~ 8mm Brown beads, with cross.
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(53) 100 ~ 10mm Yellow and brown beads with cross.
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(#54) 50 ~ 8mm wood beads with cross
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Human language falls silent before the mystery of resurrection. Only one word remains to us: Alleluia!"
~ Magnificat, April 2018, Sunday April 1st.
(#55) 50 ~ 8mm Brown beads with cross.
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(#56) 100 ~ 8mm Rosewood and other beads with wooden cross.
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(#57) 100 ~ 8mm Rosewood and white with wooden cross.
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(#58) 33 ~ 8mm Rosewood beads, and wooden bead with crosses
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(#59) 33 ~ 8mm Rosewood beads with others, and wooden bead with crosses.
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(#60) 50 ~ 8mm wood beads with cross.
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In No Greater Love, Mother Teresa wrote: “Jesus taught us how to pray, and He also told us to learn from Him to be meek and humble of heart. Neither of these can we do unless we know what silence is. Both humility and prayer grow from an ear, mind, and tongue that have lived in silence with God, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.”
~ Robert Cardinal Sarah: The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise.
(#61) 33 ~ 8mm Rosewood and black beads, and cross bead.
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(#62) 10 ~ 10mm wooden beads.
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(#63) 100 ~ 8mm Rosewood beads with hand-carved cross.
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(#64) 50 ~ 8mm rosewood beads with cross
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(#65) ~33 8-(3)10mm wood beads and cross
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(#66) "Prayer Tread" 100 ~ Misc. mm Wood beads
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“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.” ― Meister Eckhart
(#67) 50 ~ 8mm Beads with cross
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(#68) 33 ~ 8mm beads with cross
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(#69) "Prayer Thread" 50 ~ 8mm wood beads
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(#70) "Prayer Thread" 33mm ~ 8mm wood beads
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(#71) 33 ~ 8mm Rosewood beads with cross
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(#72) 33 ~ 8mm Rosewood and white beads with cross
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Be persevering in prayer… (Colossians 4:2)
(#73) "Prayer Thread" 33 ~ 8mm Brown beads with Orthodox cross.
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(#74) 50 ~ 8mm brown beads with cross
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(#75) 50~ 8mm brown beads with cross
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(#76) 50+ 10mm beads with cross.
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(#77) 50 4-5mm beads, Prayer Thread
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(#78) 50 4-5mm beads, Prayer Thread
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(#79) 50 4-5mm beads, Prayer Bracelet
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(#80) 100 8mm bead Prayer Tread
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(#81) 3mm bead Bracelet
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(#82) 3mm bead Bracelet
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(#83) 50 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#84) 100 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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There is some text out there that indicate "tassels" represent a symbol of letting us wipe away the tears that are the fruition of deep contemplative prayer.
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Intimate relationship with God can very well and rightly bring forth tears of pain, joy, appreciating God's awesomeness, humbleness, humility, ecstasy ... among other expressions of love as God imparts grace.
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(#85) 100 ~ 8mm beads Prayer Thread
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(#86) 100 ~ 8mm beads Prayer Thread
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(#87) 50 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#88) 33 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#89) 33 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#90) 33 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#91) 100 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#92) 50 ~ 10mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#93) 33 ~ 8mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#94) 100 ~ 33mm bead Prayer Thread
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(#95) 100 ` 8mm bead set
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(#96) Forthcoming
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(#97) Forthcoming
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(#98) Forthcoming
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(#99) Forthcoming
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(#100) Forthcoming
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I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Ps 33:1)
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Donations are accepted to help me with buying more supplies. All of the donation(s) will be invested into H.E.L.P. in order to keep the blessings going forward.
If you want a set, ask for one regardless of ability to donate.
If interested in donating, please contact me through order button below. Thank you and Blessings!
Most Jesus Prayer beads and crosses are wood. Crosses will be rough, nothing exotic, just simplicity. Wood could be Pine, Black Walnut, Driftwood, Cherry, Cedar, Poplar, etc. On the rare occasion a cross is not wood, the item will be highlighted as such on another page of this site, and will be a singular made item.
If a set of beads gets broken, reach me through the site's Contact page.
DO NOT wet beads.
This apostolate is a FREE service to those interested. This is not a business, nor a non-profit. Just a humble hobby.
Tom Légaré
If you want a set, ask for one regardless of ability to donate.
If interested in donating, please contact me through order button below. Thank you and Blessings!
Most Jesus Prayer beads and crosses are wood. Crosses will be rough, nothing exotic, just simplicity. Wood could be Pine, Black Walnut, Driftwood, Cherry, Cedar, Poplar, etc. On the rare occasion a cross is not wood, the item will be highlighted as such on another page of this site, and will be a singular made item.
If a set of beads gets broken, reach me through the site's Contact page.
DO NOT wet beads.
This apostolate is a FREE service to those interested. This is not a business, nor a non-profit. Just a humble hobby.
Tom Légaré