Praying beads
Since my friend Ricardo have explained some of the beautiful aspects of the Roman Catholic Religion I have wanted to purchase a rosary. The reason not only being aesthetics but also because I believe there lies beauty in this tradition. Unfortunately it has been difficult to find anything other than fashion accesories, which is obviously not remotely the same thing that I had in mind. But, last Friday I went to Greenwich Market with my sister where I found a woman selling antiques from france, amongst which were a few rosaries from the beginning of the 20th century. Not only did I find a beautiful mother of pearl rosary, but it's 2nd hand and you can see how every bead has been chaved away by weary fingers reciting 'hail mary's' and 'our holy fathers'. I am so glad to have found this treasure, which is why I have included these pictures.
For those of you interested in these sort of things, do yourself a favour and wikipedia the word 'prayer beads', mind boggling how many religions make use of this method of prayer. (Yes, even the Christian religion, which is surprising since they are usually the first to condemn the use of these symbolic methods)Anyway - if you look closely on the left you will see that the Jesus figure is litterally nailed to the mother of pearl cross.
posted by Minette at 2:25 AM
3 Comments:
Ek het gister eers jou kerskaartjie gekry. Baie dankie. Nudie
It is important to note that the roman catholic church with its policy of non-disclosure (instituted by the current pope while a cardinal) regarding child abuse by priests and their impractical views on contraception is an institution with negative effect on its subjects. The rituals they follow are empty and were in my opinion created to further enslave their following to their paternal and self serving idea of religion; keeping the people away from the true God of love and in the dark. I am more than open to enter debate on this issue.
I know bhuti - that's why I'm not a catholic, but when has there EVER been a religion without major faults - as long as religion is organised by humans, human nature will take over. Whatever your relationship with God, I believe it should be with you and him, much less of a margin of error.
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