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Anglican Rosary???
Posted September 26, 2003 , By Joshua LeBlanc
I may just be in the dark on this issue, but never before have I heard of this tradition in the Anglican Church. Please comment on this article
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August 9th, 2004 at 1:44 am
I am an anglican and remember hearing in the 50’s that an Anglican nun at my school used rosary beads - don’t know if they were specifically Anglican or if she used Catholic rosary beads and said the catholic. I have been interested in praying in this way and when last in Italy purchased a set of beads. I often say the catholic rosary and on other times I used the beads in my own way to pray. I find they help me concentrate and stop my mind from wandering. I know an Anglican Priest who also prays the catholic rosary. I have only recently learned about Anglican rosary and I am investigating. There is quite a lot about it on the internet.I have a feeling it is a fairly new concept but I welcome it
August 9th, 2004 at 1:45 am
I am an anglican and remember hearing in the 50’s that an Anglican nun at my school used rosary beads - don’t know if they were specifically Anglican or if she used Catholic rosary beads and said the catholic rosary. I have been interested in praying in this way and when last in Italy purchased a set of beads. I often say the catholic rosary and on other times I used the beads in my own way to pray. I find they help me concentrate and stop my mind from wandering. I know an Anglican Priest who also prays the catholic rosary. I have only recently learned about Anglican rosary and I am investigating. There is quite a lot about it on the internet.I have a feeling it is a fairly new concept but I welcome it. When Anglicans do the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, we use the Hail Mary but generally it is not part of our prayer life.
September 10th, 2004 at 5:51 am
Its actually ok for anyone to pray the Rosary because its just a form of meditation on the life of Jesus. To clarify another issue again, the “Hail Mary” prayer is actually adapted from Elizabeth’s exaltation of Mary in Luke 1:40 onwards. Again, the Hail Mary is not a prayer of worship, but is a call to ask Mary to pray for us and with us. In modern day terms, Mary is a trusty prayer warrior.
October 19th, 2004 at 12:23 am
The Anglican rosary is smaller than the traditional Catholic rosary. I try to find one that is small enough to fit on my wrist so that I won’t easily lose it. The prayers assigned to the beads vary. I like to assign a form of the Jesus prayer to the weeks, but there are a great many other prayers that can be used.
December 8th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
I am an episcopalian and have recently begun making anglican rosaries. They were developed in the 80s by an episcopalian prayer group, (see On wings of prayer website for all details…) the anglican guidlines for the rosary are flexible. There are 33 beads in all one for each year Jesus walked the earth. It starts with the cross, then an invitatory bead to invite us into the presence of the Lord, there are four cruciform bead divided by 7 “week” beads. The cruciform beads represent the four points of the cross, the four cardinal directions and four seasons of the year. THe 7 week beads represent the 7 days in creation, the temporal week and the seven sacrements.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Hi. Just happened to be googling around for “Anglican” and “rosary” and found this blog and your query. I am a religion reporter for secular media and I have just completed a book that is, in part, about the Anglican/Episcopal rosary called “Bead One, Pray Too.” It was developed in the 1980s by Lynn Bauman, an Anglican priest in Texas who was leading an ongoing contemplatiuve prayer group. They had tried many prayer tools and had just learned about the Catholic rosary. Bauman starteding thinking about an Anglican rosary and came up with a string of 33 beads - one for each year of Christ’s life. Instead of decades, the circle of the rosary has 28 “weeks” beads - four groups of 7 each. These are separated by four “cruciform” - one for each arm of the cross. Dangling from this circle is an “invitatory” bead - where one invokes the Trinity - and a cross instead of a crucifix. Unlike the Catholic rosary, the Anglican rosary has no set or fixed prayers - you are free to pray what you will. Many refer to the Book of Psalms and the Book of Common Prayer for inspiration. Hope this helps!