NEW website!

The new website is nearly complete! In early March 2009 we started having some trouble with our last site but it was just an occasional glitch. After hunting high and low through the coding, we could not find the problem. By the middle of March it took a permanent vacation :) Not what you want a website to do, but God's Will be done. Blessed be God! Don't worry about any information you had in there, as it was so secure that we could not access it so no one else could either. It has since been completely deleted and so is safe.

After many sleepless nights and worry and work and learning and more learning and coding and frustration, the newest version of www.avemariascircle.com is almost done and we are thrilled with God's will now! He was right all along. Of course :)

The new cart has all the materials that are listed in the latest catalogue loaded, plus the sale items are going in now as well. Most of the resource pages have been reinstalled and configured too.

At this point, by the end of April 2009 all the materials will be in and with the help of The Holy Famiy, (who else could help us with all this work and program coding :?) the discount part of the program will be installed as well. That is a new thing as the old site could not accommodate all the products and options we had with a discount calculator.

We hope and pray that you will like the new website format! Please let us know if you find any problems as they are bound to crop up and can only be addressed if we are told of them.

God bless you all for your patience while this work has and continues to be done.
Richard and Debbie Wojcik
www.avemariascircle.com

American lead law for children

In sensitivity to our American clients, we have updated the Ave Maria's Circle website to include more direct information in regards to lead in our products. Lead is bad for all of us, but especially for children under 15. Many rosaries are made for children, so this is to aid in your choice of materials available for rosary making.

As Canada and Europe have long been working on addressing this, it has simply been "part of life". So, to make matters clearer we have noted on almost every product we offer if it is lead free or not. Those that we do not know we have stated so, but a very few are left blank while we sort out what and where they are made. You will need to click on the item to get the full information and additional pictures.

There is also a new section included in the menu called "Product Information". This is simply a section that has more complete information for some of the terms and language used. As everyone enters rosary making with little background, it is helpful to have somewhere to go to learn terminology! We all had to learn it somewhere :) so hopefully this will help.

As more language explanations are needed they will certainly be added. If you have items you would like included, drop us a line at info@avemariascircle.com and we will do our best to help.

God bless you and keep you,
Richard and Debbie Wojcik
www.avemariascircle.com

Immaculate Heart of Mary Chaplet

The Immaculate Heart of Mary chaplet prayers have been completed and uploaded today! This is a short and very sweet chaplet in honour and thanksgiving to God for the precious heart of Mary. Such a loving and generous heart of a Mother!

You can see the notes and prayers on the website in the Resource section.

Very Happy and Blessed 2009 to one and all.
Richard and Debbie
www.avemariascircle.com

New Colour Catalogue is done!

The new catalogue is now complete! Full colour pictures and a full 55 pages now. Quite an upgrade from the photocopied 32 pages last year! It is professionally printed and we think they did a fantastic job with the quality of the product they had to work with from us :D)

As always, the website is the most up-to-date and shows any specials or closeouts, but with the volume of products carried, the catalogue is so helpful to have at home as well.

One of the specials are a few of the 1/2 inch colour centres available at a reduced rate. These are being discontinued to allow more variety in the larger and more colourful versions. Catch them while you can!

Very blessed Advent one and all,
Richard and Debbie
Ave Maria's Circle.com

7 Sorrows Chaplet

Another contribution by William, this time his first attempt at the 7 Sorrows of Mary chaplet. A fine job indeed. Keep up the great work William!

Ave Maria's Circle

Show off time!

Time to show off some of the excellent work done by one of our clients!

William is a first time rosary maker and tackled the Stations of the Cross for his initial work. As you can see by the picture, he did a wonderful job!

Keep up the great work William, and may God bless you for it.
Richard and Debbie
www.avemariascircle.com

New Catalogue

Woo hoo! The new catalogue for 2009 is now in progress!

Surprisingly we have come to realize that we have been at this for a full 10 years at the end of 2008. Praise God and all thanks to The Holy Family for desiring us to work for them! We are so very amazed and humbled and thrilled.

To make the next catalogue even better, there are going to be more price breaks to help you, and even some more prices falling as we obtain better costs for the materials. Naturally new items as well :D It should be clearer, in COLOUR, and will certainly need more pages to make that happen too!!

As always, the new year starts at the beginning of the Catholic year, so the first Sunday of Advent, November 30th, 2008 is when this should be ready. At approximately 3-4 hours per page, it is a long haul to prepare this around working hours.

May God reward you for your great kindness to us during our first 10 years!
Richard and Debbie Wojcik
www.avemariascircle.com