Prayer for the Bridal Prayer Beads

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 [...]

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Lenten Rosary – Spring is Here

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! [...]

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Lenten Rosary – Silence and Sound

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 [...]

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A World of Prayer Beads

Every major world religion has some tradition of counted prayer. And in all of these religions save one, these prayers are counted on beads. For Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants, prayer beads form a link between these diverse faiths and varied cultures.
My name is Kimberly Winston and I am a freelance religion reporter and [...]

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