A Hail Mary is prayed on each of the smaller beads, and an Our Father (also known as "The Lord's Prayer") is prayed on the larger. The five "Joyful Mysteries" about Jesus' birth and early life are ...

The Jesus Prayer is certainly familiar to Latin Catholics ... but a different devotion prayed with rosary beads (like the Divine Mercy chaplet). Initially I introduced it for some holy day ...

The differently sized beads indicate which part of the prayer they are on ... on a 'mystery,' which is an event in the life of Jesus or Mary." Traditionally, Kirby said, there were three sets ...

The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book ... t until 1994 when I acquired a second string of beads honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus, as I walked the frozen streets of East Baltimore ...

Prayer beads as physical counting tools are quite ... which lays out the basics of Christian faith — such as that Jesus is the son of God and rose from the dead. The rosary can be recited ...

The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of ... Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and ...

Each of the beads (usually 59 or 169) represents a prayer — a Hail Mary ... recited and guide the supplicant through the life of Jesus. Now cherished by many Christians, rosaries fell out ...

The site also includes the remains of early buildings and religious sculptures (photo credit: DIGVENTURES) Four out of Jesus ... to create beads that could be used for prayer.

In our lives as Christians, as we seek to live a life of prayer, we are encouraged and aided by the example and witness of the Lord Jesus himself. He shows us how to live as the children of God.