The Anglican Rosary

During our last college retreat a fellow ordinand showed me how he had constructed an Anglican Rosary from parts of an old favourite Catholic Rosary. He had used the diagram of the Anglican Rosary he saw on the brother’s website. Iain shares his story of making and using the Anglican Rosary. Iain is an ordinand in Diocese of Brisbane, Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

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Honouring they ways in which lives have been touched through experiences of making and praying with Anglican Rosaries

Welcome. If you have a story about how your life, or the life of someone you know, has been enriched by your experience of making and using prayer beads; or you have composed a set of prayers for use with the Anglican Rosary that you would like to share with others, then may I invite you to either email me your story or prayers to include here, or consider registering to contribute to this site.

If you are seeking to purchase an Anglican Rosary, Key Chain Chaplet, or Original Holding Cross, all hand made by brothers of the Society of St Francis, please visit our online shop. Purchases can be made via cheque, postal order, international money transfer via Western Union, or PayPal.

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Anglican Rosary Workshop. St Alban’s Anglican Church, 8th November

Br Nathan-James will be facilitating an Anglican Rosary workshop hosted by the parish of St Alban’s Anglican Church, Epping, on Saturday the 8th November 2008 from 9 am - 1 pm. The workshop will cover a brief overview of the history of prayer beads, making a set of prayer beads, symbolism of the Anglican Rosary and composing prayers for use with the Anglican Rosary. The workshop will be followed from 2 pm - 5 pm with a workshop on the Jesus Prayer with opportunity to make a simple prayer rope. Please contact the Parish of St Alban’s for further details and bookings.

Tiger Eye Key Ring Chaplet

Now you will never be without your prayer beads

I’ve been making several Rosaries today. Some for folks who have purchased them and others because I wanted to share the gift of prayer with someone.

Whilst I was making the last of the sets I had to do for today I was looking for my key ring, only to find part of the key ring had broken off.

I looked around for the broken part, amidst a bed full of beads and other bits n bobs and I thought - why not. So I got out some left over tiger tail, a split ring and a lobster clamp and got a little creative; it happens now and then. Read the rest of this entry »

The Anglican Rosary

The Anglican Rosary

The Anglican Rosary is made up of a Cross and a total of 33 beads; 1 Invitatory Bead, 4 Cruciform Beads and 4 groups of 7 Week Beads.

The design is rich in symbolism reminding the user of key tenets of Christian faith and tradition.

The total number of beads is 33, the number of years of Christ’s life on earth, reminding us that Christ is the source of our faith.

The Cross recalls the saving grace of God; that God acts in our lives to bring us into the Kingdom of God.

The Invitatory bead calls us to prayer; to pray without ceasing. leading into the main prayer string, where we are offer prayers of praise and thanksgiving to God. Read the rest of this entry »

Just over a year ago I had some correspondence with Kimberly Winston; a freelance religion reporter in the US. We had been discussing a book she was researching on prayer beads. Kimberly recently published her book Bead One, Prayer Too. Recently I was talking ‘blog shop’ with her, about her blog based on themes raised in her book, and my newly evolving blog on the Anglican Rosary. She posted the following entry on her blog following receipt of a rosary I sent to her.

Kimberly writes:

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. See the full post on Kimberly’s blog

Dear Nathan

Everyone just loved the workshop and they were all so inspired. It’s a great thing you do with these workshops, it is a lovely sharing time that gives us all a real focus on prayer. Something that we need in our busy lives when it is too easy to let prayer slip and become disconnected. You have a very special ministry with this and we were all very privileged to be included.

Sue,
26th July 08, Christchurch St Lucia workshop.
http://www.anglican-stlucia.org/