Practicing religion is not necessarily a weekly occasion when one visits the Church or one’s specific place of worship with one’s family. Practicing religion is also about one’s conversations with one’s own self. It is also about treating God as one’s friend and confidante, someone who is always by your side, someone you don’t have to travel far to be with. At such times a rosary keeps one connected to one’s Conscience, to The Creator and leaves one feeling secure and cared for.
Wearing or holding a testimonial of one’s practiced faith is a great way to start a conversation and to establish a connection with persons of the same faith in any corner of the world. In a world that is ridden with exhibitionism and vulgar display of wealth, one is much better off exhibiting or proclaiming one’s allegiance to one’s faith wordlessly but surely.
A rosary is a string of beads that is largely carried by people as a mark of their reverence. A set of Rosary beads contains fifty beads in groups of ten [Every ten beads signifying a decade], with an additional large bead before every decade. These numbers are in accordance with the number of psalms, or a third or two-thirds of them. Since longer than can be remembered, the counting of prayers on a string of beads is customary and has been adopted through generations of followers.
In the beginning of the 20th Century Rosaries were at times made from the seeds of the ‘rosary pea’ or ‘bead tree’. Rosary Beads are sometimes made to enclose sacred relics, or drops of holy water. A set of blessed Rosary Beads is a Sacramental.
The beads can be made from a variety of materials like wood, bone, glass, crushed flowers, semi precious stones and even precious materials including coral, glided silver and gold. Traditionally a Rosary is available in the form of a string of beads of varying materials but for easy use it is also seen in other forms like a ring finger, bracelet and the latest from is as Rosary Card which has bumps on it to depict the beads.
In an ever changing world environment, one thing that can only grow stronger is the belief in God and the proof is that one never has to look far and look for long before one spots a Rosary.
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