Check out this wonderful post from a Baltimore-based woman named Anne who makes Anglican rosaries. She has decided to start a series of posts about birthstone rosaries, and is beginning with June – pearls and alexandrites. Here is an excerpt: “Everywhere, pearls represent purity, innocence, and integrity. In the book of Revelations, the Gates of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Anglican rosary’
June Birthstone Rosary
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy Birthday to “Bead One, Pray Too”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican rosary, book, podcast on April 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today, my baby is one year old. Yeah! And it seems, according to my publisher that this, my third child, will be the most susccessful. Double Yeah! So to celebrate, I bought my baby a little chocolate cake and – because she is my girl – a Diet Coke, and we invited a few friends [...]
Lenten Prayers
Posted in Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Beliefnet, Bella, Catholic rosary, prayers on March 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, let me say how touched I am by the flood of emails I’ve been receiving from readers and other friends and family who read my post about Bella. Many of them have contained the most lovely pet prayers – some which had me in quite a puddle of tears – that I will share [...]
Inauguration Prayers
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Anne Graham Lotz, Brad Hirschfield, Catholic rosary, Gene Robinson, inaugural prayers, Joseph Lowery, prayer beads, Rajan Zed, Rick Warren, Samuel Rodriguez on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As the daily news gets worse and worse, I keep thinking back to the hopefulness of the inauguration, especially to the beautiful prayers of Rev. Gene Robinson, Rev. Rick Warren and Rev. Joseph Lowery. I have also been inspired and comforted by the prayers of Jewish, Hindu and other Christian leaders who wrote inaugural prayers [...]
Prayer Beads from Australia
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary on September 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I came home today and opened the mailbox to find a package inside from Brother Nathan-James, an Anglican brother in Buranda, Australia. When I opened it up, inside was this lovely Anglican rosary he made just for me. I first connected with Brother Nathan-James more than year ago when I was researching Bead One, Pray [...]
Praying in Seattle
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, St. James Cathedral on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My husband and I are visiting Seattle this week – he for a conference and me for the free hotel room. So while he confers, I bop around the city looking for bead stores, places to pray with beads and great yarn stores. Oh, then there’s the eating. There are way too many good bakeries [...]
45 Pines
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer beads on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Riley, publicist extraordinaire at Morehouse, sent me a link this morning to a blog called 45 Pines with an entry called “Praying with Stones.” It seems that the writer, named Tanya, found a copy of Bead One, Pray Too at her local library (YEA! LIBRARIES!) and came home and was inspired to make an [...]
Prayer for the Bridal Prayer Beads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Episcopal rosary on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Bridal Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Anglican prayer beads, Catholic rosary, Protestant rosary, Protestant prayer beads, rosary making, prayer bead making, bridal prayer beads on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Paper Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Bead for Life, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
