570-225-7410
secretary@sj23tamaqua.org
St. John XXIII Parish
in the Diocese of Allentown
This garden was inspired by personal experience with prayer gardens and prayer.
The finished garden will be 180 ft. x 106 ft. at the top of St. Jerome New Cemetery, Tamaqua
A QUICK LOOK AT EACH SECTION:
A beautiful monument for aborted children is the center of this section, surrounded by an area of evergreens that symbolize eternal life, with a backdrop of woods. This area was designed to honor lost loved ones.
Here you can reflect and pray for your loved ones, allow yourself to grieve, pray for aborted children and victims of abortion, or talk to the Blessed Mother and place your cares in her hands.
Memorial bricks and shrubs can be sponsored in memory of loved ones.
A little "prayer tent" connected to the Memorial Circle, where you can sit under its protection from the elements to relax, pray, reflect, read, and enjoy the quiet serenity of the surrounding garden with a view of the woods and Wildflower Circle.
Use this gazebo yourself or gather with others for group prayer, socializing, group study, or for memorial services. Resources will be available for learning or deepening relationship with God.
Four benches and shrubs are availabe to sponsor in memory of a loved one.
A short rock-lined path leads to a little nook in the brush, to the side of the Prayer Gazebo, where you can sit and pray in solitude with St. Joseph.
This is a small, private place behind the brush and trees where you can be alone and feel the hug of God when you are feeling overwhelmed, insecure, or hurting. Or where you can talk to St. Joseph, request intentions, and feel the strength and faith of the foster-father of Jesus.
Shrubs are available here to sponsor in memory of a loved one.
Sit in the midst of a small wildflower field, along with a couple angels and a small fountain to reflect, pray, read.
This area overlooks the Memorial Circle, St. Joseph Nook, and the surrounding woods. It's a great place to relax and hear the murmurs of God in the openness of the wildflowers and butterflies, with the gentle sound of running water from the "mini waterfall".
Sections of wildflowers are available to sponsor in memory of a loved one, along with the two benches and angel statues.
Walk along the path of Beatitudes, an area along the treeline marked with flower beds and vases, rocks, the lines of the Beatitudes, and places to sit along the way, in front of a treeline backdrop with a view of the rest of the garden.
Offer your thoughts to God next to the beatitude that pulls at your heart, among the flourishing plants, and reflect on how the Beatitudes can help you to flourish. Resources will be available for deeper reflection and connection with God.
Plaques and shrubs will be available to sponsor in memory of loved ones.
An 8 foot cross, surrounded by a boulder "mountain" with a shrub backdrop and four benches will create a perfect place to leave your worries, offer your sufferings, surrender, reflect on Jesus, and pray.
This area will be at the end of the Beatitude Path and can be used for personal prayer and reflection or for group prayer. Allow the peaceful sounds of the garden open your senses so that you can feel God's love and be open to experience healing from our Savior.
Four benches and two shrubs will be available to sponsor for loved ones.
Shrubs of various sizes and colors will fill this corner, with Scripture passages and places to sit interspersed within them.
This area will offer a place to hide within the shrubs, surrounded by God's words, when you need some direction, and be comforted by God's voice speaking through written word within His creation. You can also just walk through the shrubs reading the Scripture passages for times when you may need to hear them.
Benches, shrubs, and small statuettes will be available to sponsor in memory of loved ones.
A wooden, circular bench will surround this great tree, whose branches will reach down around you, surrounding you with their protection.
Here you will be able to pray yourself or with a group, find prayer resources, and have a view of each area of the garden, to help bring you to a place where you can connect more deeply with God.
The sections of the bench will have inscriptions and images representing the mysteries and decades of the Rosary , and are available to sponsor in memory of a loved one.
A VIDEO TOUR:
Click on the Video to see a Quick Tour (July 2024)
and be a permanent part of the garden
Choose between 3 sizes
of bricks or benches
Free Engraving
Add an emblem to personalize
Choose from varieties
in the prayer garden
A plant marker will display
your loved one's name
Your loved one's name will
be listed on the website
Sponsor a current item or one from our wish list
Available items include statues, wooden benches, plaques
A small plaque/name plate will be placed at or on the item
100% of contributions
goes toward the garden
Manpower is also greatly needed!
Supplies are also accepted
The area for the garden was decided on and planning began
Planning became action, and landcaping company consulted.
The footer for the memorial stone for aborted children was poured
Pieces of the old altar from St. Jerome's Church were buried at the memorial site
The memorial stone for the unborn was delivered
Blessed Mother statue delivered - surrounding area dug for the shrubs
Shrubs / landscaping completed - area for the gazebo leveled & footers poured
Gazebo was built and stained - stone floor finished
Front view, close up of the Memorial Circle monument for the Unborn
Paver bricks for the gazebo floor and the perimeter were completed
The area for the Wildflower Circle was measured and staked.
Wildflower Circle area was leveled and formed
Area for the St. Joseph Nook cleaned out and path created
Beginning work on Wildflower Circle, starting the patio portion
Shelter and footer for the St. Joseph statue completed
The St. Joseph statue arrived and placed under shelter
Benches for the St. Joseph Nook were delivered and placed
Small angel statue arrived and placed at Gazebo
The Wildflower Circle patio was completed and the fountain was placed
Wildflower Circle area finished, except for flowers - shrubs planted at road
Thank You
to all who have donated or contributed to our garden!
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There is healing after abortion
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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