I encourage everyone to check out Teddy's post, and these useful links: how to pray the rosary, the wikipedia page, and the page on prayer ropes.
So, question for the day: is using a rosary (or other ikons/icons) beneficial? Is it idolatrous? In light of our last Wednesday night discussion (involving prayer and sacrament), do the beads and rope represent something more than just beads and rope? Do they represent more than the prayers we offer while practicing the rosary? If so, what?
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Here is my imput. Roseries, icons, prayer books, etc. are tools to be used and are not to be worship in their own right. If the tool is helping out on one's prayer life, pointing to God, it is a good tool in that regard. But if one loses that touch, it is time to examine the motives behind using that tool, whether to modify or to disgard it. Using or praying to it on its own acord and not worshiping and praying to God is idolitry. Prayer is ever evolving acourding to the induvadual's and community's life.
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