Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Episcopal rosary on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
In my last post, I showed you how I made a set of prayer beads suitable for brides. Now we move on to the prayers.
As I said in the previous post, I used the Anglican rosary form to create these bridal prayer beads, but I was inspired to add three beads on the stem, between [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, bridal prayer beads, Catholic rosary, prayer bead making, Protestant prayer beads, Protestant rosary, rosary making on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
June is the month of weddings (yeah - I was married in May) and so I thought some of you out there might be interested in making a special set of prayer beads for the brides-to-be in your lives.
As I have a friend getting married soon (yeah - not in June) I decided to make [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Bead for Life, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sea Ranch, Monday morning . . . .
This morning, sitting in the window overlooking the ocean, I got out the packet of paper beads I ordered last month from Beads for Life. I am going to hold a Beads for Life party in June and I couldn’t wait till then to see what they [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, prayer beads, Sea Ranch on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary, creativity, prayer beads on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I want you to meet a young prayer bead maker, Andrea Cueva, the 17-year-old daughter of my friends Kathy and Bob Cueva. I have known the Cuevas for about four years, since I began working on the book Fabric of Faith, which was about Prayers & Squares, the prayer quilt ministry. Kathy is the president [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Baubles and Beads, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Eariler this week, I posted about going to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic after 40 years of attending the Catholic church.
As a gift to commemorate her baptism, confirmation and first communion - taken all in one ceremony the night before Easter - I promised to make her a Catholic rosary, so today we [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Breastplate on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I hope none of you are so far into your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations that you don’t have the energy to do a little prayer bead session with my favorite saint! You shouldn’t be too far gone - it’s only 2:30 p.m. here in California - but I realize that’s Happy Hour time in NYC, [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, John McQuiston, panentheism, prayer beads on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For this last week before Holy Week, I had planned to compile some prayers for prayer beads on the theme of hunger and loneliness. That’s kind of what I have been feeling lately, as winter sits - and sits and sits. But then the sun came out and I thought, that would be a bummer! [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, prayer beads, silence on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
This week, I have been thinking a lot about silence. It has been a week split between long days at home alone with my dog, Bella, and the computer and a weekend of raucus fun with girlfriends at a knitting convention that attracted thousands of people. In the first part of the week there was [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Christmas, nativity, prayer beads on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
For all Christians, this time of year is about hope and birth. Looking at the baby in the manger seems to make all things possible. As I look out the window at the cold and the darkness, my heart cries out for some prayers about the warmth and the light. I came up with the [...]
