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Guadalupe Rosary Bracelet
Beloved Readers, we have an exciting and unusual giveaway: an Our Lady of Guadalupe rosary bracelet that diffuses essential oils, as you pray!!! Talk about awesome!
TO ENTER, please tell us in the comments why you would like to win!
The popular Our Lady of Guadalupe aromaRosary Bracelet will be awarded on December 12th, on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, so enter right away!
And start praying the Novena to Our Lady, which starts today (December 4th)!
Now, meet aromaRosary’s inventor, Chantal Howard!
Welcome, Chantal! Please give us just a few glimpses into your world so that we can get to know you a bit more personally.
I am a Byzantine Catholic by birth, giving me a great love for icons, chant, and the Divine Liturgy. I am an oblate of the Community of St. John and, therefore, identify myself as Eucharistic, Marian, Seeker of Truth, and devotee of all things truly Catholic. I have a charismatic side, a traditional Latin-loving, veil-wearing side. Above all, I want to live a life of prayer, holiness, and heroic virtue. The New Evangelization is knit into who I am.
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Chantal HowardI have been married for nearly 15 years to the man of my Jane-Austin-like dreams. I can truthfully say Peter and I are a work in progress. But I rejoice in the Mercy of God that is helping us to put lofty ideas of love into practice with greater gratitude and tenderness. I love that I get to share life with a man of such conviction, passion, and fidelity – to me, to Our Lady, and to Our Lord.
My five children are the pure light of my life. We homeschool. I admit, though, that our homeschool has been interdependent with much family collaboration and even part-time school going opportunities to help round out our family dynamic, allowing for me to be as active in work as I am. This is the nature of the “School of the Family,” as it has developed for us. The desire to nurture them in health, in mind, in spirit, and in creativity and joy is foundational and much of that I can give to them, but I also realize that I am not fully sufficient alone. I laugh when I hear the not so popular expression, “It takes a village to raise a child,” and yet can we really deny the fact? So, we had better choose our villages carefully. In our case, our family is our village, and so we have recently relocated to Northern Idaho to be near all my siblings and my mother so that we can foster our kids in the context of family, faith, farming, good food, and adventure.
Tell us about the nature of your work.
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My Grandaddy began the entrepreneurial streak in our family as an inventor. My mom and dad firmed it up by building a family business. I grew up helping to answer phone calls, strategize marketing plans and work in the field. As my mom homeschooled me, this practical work in business became second nature. Since then, I have not ceased drumming up new ventures. Ministry, writing, dōTERRA, and my family have offered platforms to launch entrepreneurial dreams in more directions than I ever imagined – Catholicpreneur style. In addition, as a young person I was a highly competitive gymnast and high-level athlete, in several arenas. This promoted a lifestyle of fitness and wholesomeness that has been a steady undercurrent in my life. Together, these life experiences have brought me to where I am today as a “natural solution coach.” I help families find health and happiness through an essential oil-inspired wellness lifestyle, without New Age overtones.
Where did your passion for the rosary begin, and why do you see it as such an important mission to bring to the world?
As a young person my parents rested all their hope of us remaining a faithful family on the prayer of the Holy Rosary. Through their inspiration, we began early chanting the rosary in a Byzantine style, and I have never turned back from loving the rosary and wanting to bring it to life as—not just a prayer but—an experience that helps us traverse from our earthly dimension to the spiritual plain of contemplation. (You can check out the audio CD in the Byzantine style that we produced as a family, here.)
How did your passion for essential oils and the rosary together take shape?
The Rosary is a gift that has been given to all of humanity to heal our wounded nature. It offers us a way to ascend to the heights of our calling as children of God by tethering our fidgeting hands, our wandering minds, and our wayward souls to the life of Christ. In light of my work coaching so many people who are wounded physically and emotionally, the support of essential oils tied to the rosary struck me as a natural bridge.
A few years ago, Immaculée Ilibagiza spoke to my heart, as she shared her story of suffering and triumph through the power of the rosary with 30,000 other individuals. It just so happened that she was the keynote speaker at a large, global essential oil summit I was attending. As she shared, I marveled at her passion and unhindered dedication to sharing the rosary with the world. Here, in one moment, two of my greatest loves in life were colliding before my eyes—essential oils and the rosary! As I drove across the county, I reflected on my personal visit with Immaculee, her powerful gesture of throwing her rosary to someone in the crowd, and all I had just learned about the movement of essential oils in health care. My heart overflowed with inspiration and the desire to bring to our hurting world the solace and rich blessings of essential oils and the rosary. Thus this effort was born.
Describe an aromaRosary.
Every aromaRosary is hand-crafted to hold and diffuse essential oils, to expand the prayer experience. Using natural stones and lava rock and other ceramic, metal, or wood beads, we have designed rosaries that can withstand the intensity of therapeutic grade essential oils that have been chosen carefully to reflect the mysteries of the rosary. These blends are symbolic and calming, to help promote an atmosphere of prayer. Together with fingering the beads, chanting the prayers, and smelling the aromas of sanctity, we can more fully engage our senses and focus our prayers.
Unpack for us briefly the four essential oil bends you have chosen.
We use four unique blends. The Joyful Blend is comprised of frankincense and other oils that help create an aroma reminiscent of the Nativity. The Luminous Blend is a blend of citrus oils that reflect the light and miraculous nature of the Luminous mysteries. The Sorrowful Blend is woody and earthy, with Myrrh and other wood oils that are an aromatic encounter with the cross and the mysteries of Christ’s suffering. The Glorious Blend offers floral notes and Easteresque aromas that are gentle, soft, and Marian.
Do you have resources that would help others to learn about aromaRosary and your work as a coach and speaker?
Please visit us at aromaRosary.com. We’re having our Advent sale, right now! I would welcome your comments, your reviews, your support of our efforts, and of course I would love to work with you. I offer coaching and essential oil training. We have a dynamic Catholic team of essential oils coaches throughout the country and we want you to be a part of what we are doing to heal families and evangelize in the process.
Thank you, Chantal!
TO ENTER:
Leave a comment below about why you’d like to win the Guadalupe aromaRosary Bracelet! A random drawing will take place on the evening of Wednesday, December 12th.
NOTE: you must have access to a mailing address in the United States, to win!
Hi Everyone! The comments were accidentally turned off, but I think I have fixed the problem. Feel free to enter, and do check back on the evening of Dec. 12 (or the next morning). I’ll be announcing the winner and will need a United States mailing address.
This is a beautiful rosary and I’d like to win, please. I, too, love oils and am excited to experiment with them in prayer. I’m beginning a new ministry and clinging to the Rosary is pretty good therapy for me right now. Thanks!
I am named after the Virgen de Guadalupe. I would love to own this beautiful rosary bracelet.
I would love to win because these are beautiful and the idea of thematic oils is genius.
I would love to win this beautiful Rosary bracelet. It would be a constant reminder to start each day with prayer and faith.
Wonderful interview, Lisa and Chantal. Combining oils with prayer is such a great idea. I would love to win your beautiful rosary because I’m making my Divine Mercy consecration on Dec. 12th. Please pray for me.
I have Our Lady of Fatima bracelet. Our Lady of Guadalupe is also one of my favorites! I would be so blessed to win this bracelet. I have a very special someone that would cherish this and the oils. Thank-you, Nancy
I have a knotted rope Rosary that I will frequently wrap around my wrist when I have insomnia and start to pray. I usually fall asleep doing that. I would love to upgrade to an actual bracelet. I have also just started using doTERRA essential oil‘s, so incorporating those scents with prayer of the rosary sounds like a really beautiful practice.
I have a life-long devotion to Mary and her rosary. I work in the catechetical field and think that teaching children to use all their senses while praying would be awesome!
I have a special devotion to Mary and esp Guadalupe since I started dating my husband on this feast day!
I would love to win this for my daughter. I have a rosary bracelet already, but my daughter is a teen, and I think having Our Lady with her would help her.
Dawn,
My teen daughter helps to craft these and she loves to wear them as well. I hope your daughter gets the opportunity to enjoy the beauty, benefits and graces of wearing Our Lady’s Psalter. Lots of love and prayers!
In November 2002, my 6 year old daughter suffered an arterial bleed in her brain during an intricate brain surgery. Her Godmother placed a large poster image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the hospital room door. I prayed to Our Lady constantly during that frightening time as my daughter laid beside me in a drug induced coma. Her words to St Juan Diego- “Am I not your Mother” consoled my own maternal heart. My daughter was very unstable for two weeks and almost died many times. But on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe- December 12th, 2002, the pressure in her brain stabilized. She was taken off the ventilator the next day and began to breathe on her own. To this day, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe hangs in my daughter’s room as a reminder of Our Lady’s words and the miracles the Lord has done for us these past 22 years.
Powerful!! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Chantal! I would love to have a rosary constantly on me and to have it available to pray at anytime. I think it would make it convenient to say it while doing chores. I have a devotion to the sorrowful mysteries and I think that smelling the myrrh scent throughout the day would enhance my devotion to Christ’s Passion and death
Stafania,
I am so grateful for your beautiful example and devotion – and friendship. I hope you are blessed with this beautiful rosary. The sorrowful blend is very appropriate as a reminder of the power of the Cross and Our Lord’s Divine Mercy.
Lots of love,
Chantal
I was blessed to be able to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe this past March with two of my daughters. I’ve always had a devotion to our Lady and just recently started using essential oils, so this seems like a brilliant idea. I would love to have one of your rosaries.
Susan – Thank you for joining in this special giveaway fun. I hope I too can visit Our Lady in Mexico one day! In the meantime I love how aroma and prayer can help us draw near to her. Blessed Advent!
This idea is truly brilliant!! I, like many have a devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and I am re-consecrating myself that that, soooo winning the bracelet would be a cool way to celebrate that LOL 🙂
What a wonderful way to celebrate! Consecration to Our Lady is the short cut to the heart of Christ!
Come follow us on social media and our website. I look forward to getting to know you better. Blessed Advent!
Hi,
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s very interesting.
I would love to win an aromarosary bracelet. I use oils, homeopathic remedies, herbs and other natural products for health and well being. I have been doing this about 26 years.
I am using the rosary more now and think I would really like the combination.
Thank you for sharing.
Bernadette – it is wonderful to link arms with fellow faithful women who are naturally oriented. This is an area of great need in the world of evangelization. Thanks for your support and I hope you win. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook and at our website for future deals, announcements and giveaways. Blessings, Chantal
I would love a bracelet like that to give away to one of our students. We have so many hispanic children in our English program and I am always looking for ways to connect to their homelife. I think this being such a big part of their culture it would be helpful.
I’m so happy to discover you and read about your spiritual journey through the Byazantine Church. I grew up as a child when women wore veils to Mass and I love the Holy tradition. I have two veils which I cherish! I have been interested in learning more about pure essential oils and when I found out that your rosaries have essential oils I was hooked!! I’m hoping when I can I will purchase your rosaries for my sisters as gifts! I would be honored to win one of your rosaries! On a side note my maiden name is Howard! We are related to General Oliver Otis Howard way back! Maybe we are related?!! God Bless you and your spiritual journey!