My New Prayer Rope!

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I’ve made this type of prayer rope in the past. It’s very hard on my hands. I’ve literally tied prayer ropes until my hands have bled with the style of knotting used to make this prayer rope. That’s why I’ve switched to this other style. 😄
 
Dear all, we also offer prayer ropes in many variations (33, 100 and 300knot). Ours come from Orthodox Churches from Greece, Russia, Macedonia and Serbia.

Although I like the ones Mr. Phillip_Rolfes offers, they look magnificent! But I too think it would be better to replace the skulls with the olive tree beads or cross beads.

We do not offer them with olive tree beads, but we do have them with cross beads. For the ones interested here is the url of the website: prayer-bracelet(dot)com

Also, we have a lot of articles in our blog about the history of the prayer rope, do a search for St. Anthony the Great on the website and you will find the series of articles.

Regards and God Bless,
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Phillip_Rolfes said:
I’ve made this type of prayer rope in the past. It’s very hard on my hands. I’ve literally tied prayer ropes until my hands have bled with the style of knotting used to make this prayer rope.
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That may be why monks make them… I have not seen them made this way by nuns… When I passed through the bookstore and picked this one up, I instantly knew I had found “my” rope…

It is a 300 knotter…

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Perhaps it’s the way some monks made them. I’ve also heard that there are machines that can tie these. A group of monks I know mentioned getting advertisements for said machine so that they could produce these prayer ropes. Needless to say, they didn’t purchase one. But I wouldn’t be surprised to discover if such a machine is used on the Holy Mountain, simply to keep up with any demand from pilgrims. This style of prayer rope is not only very difficult to tie, but also very time consuming. A 100 knot prayer rope takes me about 5 hours of focused attention.
 
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I wouldn’t be surprised to discover if such a machine is used on the Holy Mountain,
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I would be floored!

I gave a nun a ball of yarn to make me a 300 knotter, and it was alpaca, and it took her some 3 months to get it made, because that kind of wool is slippery and soft and wants to untie itself… I gave it to a young woman who is now a novice there where it was made… Point being that monastics love hard tasks - Meeting the laws of supply and demand with mechanized knot tiers would be totally out of character for them… They do not become monastics in order to fulfill the laws of supply and demand, I say! 🙂

I have a sneaking suspicion that I may know the monk who made it, and he did not make it for me - I was an interloper who siezed it and paid the money for it… And he was pretty much a Fool for Christ… He placed himself in Services where I could see him, and he elaborately got our HIS 300 knotter, and lavishly displayed it to all, and made it VERY obvious to ALL that HE had a 300 knotter while THEY did NOT!! He did this several times while I was there…

So perhaps I should not have made the pic of it here… The prayers in that rope placed there in its making do not go away… I regard it as the only thing worthwhile keeping in my estate… And I will perhaps, if God so wills, find someone I can give it to - I already have one in mind…

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George720 said:
Meeting the laws of supply and demand with mechanized knot tiers would be totally out of character for them… They do not become monastics in order to fulfill the laws of supply and demand, I say!
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I completely agree with you. Which is why I’m glad that the monks I know didn’t purchase the machine (if such a one, in truth, exists). 😉

I don’t know any monks from Mt. Athos or from St. Anthony’s Monastery, but I suspect that they too wouldn’t give in to the laws of supply and demand.
 
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So perhaps I should not have made the pic of it here… The prayers in that rope placed there in its making do not go away… I regard it as the only thing worthwhile keeping in my estate… And I will perhaps, if God so wills, find someone I can give it to - I already have one in mind…
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I’m grateful you posted the picture. I was edified by seeing it.
 
That’s huge! The prayer rope @Phillip_Rolfes made me is 100 knots & it’s smaller than yours. How many knots is your rope?
 
The following loveliness was sent with this note from an active mother of 7 in our parish:

“The words are almost like a traditional folk song but in byzatntine chant. I read the English version of the description and it looks legitimate but who knows? It said an Athonite monk wrote it, but 2 monks arranged and recorded it…i think. I think it’s at a monastery in Macedonia near the border of Albania. And you have probably already seen it. It’s from last year. It’s a song about the life of the monk.”

The title came as: “In the midst of desert beauty…”

Christianity 101 sort of…

The lives of those who take this Faith seriously, and build prayer ropes for us in prayers for us, who regard as Joy the cost of discipleship… So if you decide to take a moment, hoard the time in undistraction - It is a poem come a song among the Flowers found in the Desert known as Christian Monastic Community…

This is the Life we are birthing in the US - It is a Life that gives Life to all…

For Christians, a vacation is a Pilgrimage to such places as these, that we should enter into their labors and prayers with them, even if only for a few days…


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Myrrh streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Hawaii

Streaming for several years now…


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