How Do You Make A Rosary Or Chaplet?
Rosaries and chaplets are strings of beads blessed by a priest and used for prayer counting in the Catholic religion. Handmade rosaries make lovely gifts for children’s first communions, adult conversions, weddings and other special religious events. Rosaries can be made in different color schemes and with all sorts of beads. In this article you will learn how to make rosaries and chaplets. Decide what configuration of rosary or chaplet you want to make. Standard rosaries contain five decades of beads, separated by four larger beads, attached to a short chain containing a crucifix and one large bead, three small beads and one large bead. Chaplets vary, based on what prayer is associated with them. For example, a chaplet of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa consists of nine beads, a crucifix and a medal of Our Lady of Czestochowa, while a chaplet of Saint Patrick has 12 beads that symbolize the 12 perils of St. Patrick. This article will explain how to make a rosary; the process is the s
