Comments on: Spring! http://veniteadoremus.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/spring/ Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:27:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: VA http://veniteadoremus.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/spring/#comment-8 VA Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:33:55 +0000 http://veniteadoremus.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-8 I was at a crafts-like market in Assisi and they had rosaries that almost looked like belt rosaries - only probably too big. The beads must have been around an inch in diameter... I would have picked it up for sheer coolness if I'd had any idea what to do with it :) But as an example rosary, it would have been excellent! What I've seen done at some parishes is that they let the children make their own rosaries by stringing cheap plastic beads together. They have ten different colours in every decade, and each decade has them in the same order, so you can say "we're at the blue bead now" and everybody would know where they're supposed to be. It works well as a system, but the rosaries are quite hideous... I was at a crafts-like market in Assisi and they had rosaries that almost looked like belt rosaries – only probably too big. The beads must have been around an inch in diameter… I would have picked it up for sheer coolness if I’d had any idea what to do with it :) But as an example rosary, it would have been excellent!

What I’ve seen done at some parishes is that they let the children make their own rosaries by stringing cheap plastic beads together. They have ten different colours in every decade, and each decade has them in the same order, so you can say “we’re at the blue bead now” and everybody would know where they’re supposed to be. It works well as a system, but the rosaries are quite hideous…

]]> By: Joe http://veniteadoremus.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/spring/#comment-7 Joe Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:09:36 +0000 http://veniteadoremus.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-7 Off topic: I have just posted on Richard Feynman at Catholic Commentary. First part of four. On topic: each October, during our first Friday Eucharistic Adoration, we pray the Rosary with the children and families. For one family, who pray the Rosary at home, if is very affirming. I keep forgetting to find a LARGE rosary to use at the front, so the children can easily see where I have got to on the beads. Last October, it was quite moving to watch one or two of the parents helping their young children to follow the place on the beads - I hope they then carried on doing the same at home! Off topic: I have just posted on Richard Feynman at Catholic Commentary. First part of four.

On topic: each October, during our first Friday Eucharistic Adoration, we pray the Rosary with the children and families. For one family, who pray the Rosary at home, if is very affirming. I keep forgetting to find a LARGE rosary to use at the front, so the children can easily see where I have got to on the beads. Last October, it was quite moving to watch one or two of the parents helping their young children to follow the place on the beads – I hope they then carried on doing the same at home!

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