What is the origin of Rosary beads?
Prayer beads were used by world religions to assist in the process of remembering sequences and to measure the times one prayed. Buddhists used rosary beads and these became prayer wheels. The idea was that by making a thing familiar and by repetition, a larger amount of petitions could be placed before the deity and so gain more merit and perhaps a greater likelihood of an answer. This repetition was in fact forbidden to Christians by Christ. He said: But you when you pray go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret: and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Christ then gave us the formula or check list for prayer to the Father. All prayer is to the Father. The concept of the rosary is prayer to multiple entities. In this case it was the mother goddess and father in sequences which was a pagan idea.
