about Gardens of Grace

Thank you for stopping by! We are a small internet business with the goal of designing beads of prayer that give glory to God and call out to be taken up and used by their very beauty. As our beloved Pope John Paul II says in the quote below, "Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence." These pieces call to mind a time when all churches were arrayed in artistic splendor with the sole purpose of giving greater glory and honor to our Creator. It is our hope and prayer that they will truly inspire you and your loved ones and "stir that hidden nostalgia for God".

May God bless you and yours,

Alice Cantrell

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"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to

savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can

never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty

like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: “Late have I loved you,

beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!”"

Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Artists, from the Vatican,

4 April 1999, Easter Sunday

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