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midKnightMuse — Anglican Prayer Beads
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While the Catholic Rosary has 59 beads and the Hindu mala 108, the number of beads in the Anglican rosary has been set at 33, the number of years in Christ's life. A set of Anglican beads is comprised of four sets of 7 beads called "weeks". The number 7 represents wholeness and completion, and reminds us of the 7 days of creation, the 7 days of the temporal week, the 7 seasons of the church year, and the 7 sacraments. Four "cruciform" beads separate the "weeks". They represent the 4 points of the cross and its centrality in our lives and faith, the 4 seasons of the temporal year, and the 4 points on a compass. Anglican prayer beads use a cross rather than a crucifix. Near the cross is the "invitatory bead".Above info from: [link]
These Prayer Beads are made of Hand Faceted Garnet and smooth round garnet beads, Sterling Silver Beads, Sterling beading wire, Sterling center triangle, Sterling Silver crimps and crimp covers, and the Cross is made from PMC (precious metal clay)
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NFS- gift for my mother.
I can however make these to order and with any stones you choose. Cross shape and size may vary.
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Thanks!!!! I feel honored! I love all your choices and how you pick them. cool idea.
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I'm not religious at all, but this is just georgous! I love the choice of round garnet with silver. It's very beautiful. I've made some mala's myself, they seem to be in the market. And it helps if your using seeds or a certain stone for a certain diet which seems to be pretty important.
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Same here, I added the info for folks who are or may be interested in this type of thing. My father has liver cancer, I made him some prayer beads out of bloodstone, before he received them he was bleeding and the doctors couldn't get the bleeding to stop. The day he received them- he stopped bleeding. If your into the metaphysics of stones, you may know that bloodstone in Roman times was said to stop hemorrhages at the slightest touch. I made these for my mom after a dream I had, she liked the ones I made for my father and I decided to use the garnets for her- more girly I thought.
Mala's are very cool too. One of the local beads shop I frequent has many large seeds for making Mala's. I may make a few of them in the future. Right now I have a few folks who want the Anglican Prayer beads.
Thanks for liking them
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Yeah, I've been looking at the christian and non christian prayer beads, they seem to have a standard count on prayer beads in general. There's one in this house, its a not a christian prayer bead, but I forget from where. It's made of green jade and each stone is a shape of a rabbit. It's so pretty.
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it sound like your beads may have an Asian background- rabbits are a symbol of something I can't remember- hold on, gonna do my google thing-
Ok I'm not finding what it specificially means but- the rabbit is part of the Chinese zodiac- it is widely known to be a symbol of fertility around the world in many different cultures. They are considered "lucky" (that's where the Lucky Rabbit Foot came from.) They are also a totem or power animal to many native American Indian cultures.
I personally think they have asian background to them. I don't think American Indian's used beads for prayer unless they converted to a form of Christianity. it would be neat to find out what they are about.
(I did see an ebay listing for a single jade carved rabbit 
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No they have dream catchers and something else I can't remember what, the indians that is.
Yeah I saw some other design using stones for spacer beads instead of silver spacer beads, I thought it looked pretty cool. It made the prayer beads look more organic then anything else.
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Gorgeous, as always, and thanks for providing the info above (I honestly don't know much about prayer beads and such and found the read really interesting). Good work
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Your welcome, I thought it would be a good idea to explain the difference between the types of prayer beads. I myself didn't know about the Anglican beads- I knew about Malas and the Chatholic Rosary. I have to get these beads ready for a trip throught snail mail to MN where they will live forever!
again, thank you.
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