Monthly Anglican Rosary Service

The St Francis Episcopal Church Anglican Rosary Service meets the first Wednesday of every month at 5:45 PM. The Rosary Service is coordinated by the Daughters of the King Women’s Group.

Don’t know how to pray the rosary? We provide information. Scroll on down for some more information about Anglican Prayer beads. Everyone is welcome!

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Anglican Prayer Beads
A Form of Contemplative Prayer

Anglican Prayer Beads are a relatively new form of prayer, blending the Orthodox Jesus Prayer Rope and the Roman Catholic Rosary. The thirty-three bead design was created by the Rev. Lynn Bauman in the mid-1980s, through the prayerful exploration and discovery of a contemplative prayer group.

The use of the rosary or prayer beads helps to bring us into contemplative state of meditative prayer—really thinking about and being mindful of praying, of being in the presence of God—by use of mind, body, and spirit. The touching of the fingers on each successive bead is an aid in keeping our mind from wandering, and the rhythm of the prayers leads us more readily into stillness.

Symbolism of the BeadsThe configuration of the Anglican Prayer Beads relate contemplative prayer using the Rosary to many levels of traditional Christian symbolism. Contemplative prayer is enriched by these symbols whose purpose is always to focus and concentrate attention, allowing the one who prays to move more swiftly into the Presence of God.

The prayer beads are made up of twenty-eight beads divided into four groups of seven called weeks. In the Judeo-Christian tradition the number seven represents spiritual perfection and completion. Between each week is a single bead, called a cruciform bead as the four beads form a cross. The invitatory bead between the cross and the wheel of beads brings the total to thirty-three, the number of years in Jesus’ earthly life.

Come Lord Jesus PrayerThe Cross
“Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”—Revelation 7:12
The invitatory
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble.”—Psalm 46:1
The Cruciforms
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless God’s Holy Name.”—Psalm 103:1
The Weeks
“Come Lord Jesus, draw us to yourself.”—John 12:32

Agnus Dei PrayerThe Cross
The Lord’s Prayer
The Invitatory
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.”—Psalm 19:14
The Cruciforms
Oh, Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world have mercy upon us,
Oh, Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world have mercy upon us,
Oh, Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world give us Thy Peace.
The Weeks
Almighty and merciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bless us and keep us.
Amen.

*Agnus Dei means “Lamb of God”

Trisagion and Jesus PrayerCross
In the Name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
The Invitatory
O God make speed to save me (us),
O Lord make haste to help me (us),
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
The Cruciforms
Holy God,
Holy and Mighty,
Holy Immortal One,
Have mercy upon me (us).
The Weeks
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Have mercy on me, a sinner.
Or, in a group setting:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy upon us.

*Trisagion means “thrice Holy”