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Praying with Beads and the Anglican Rosary

King of Peace.org is a nice basic resource for prayers. That's where I started! I also have a book called Praying With Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year (not an endorsement of Amazon; just a reference!) I have found this book to have some nice ways of using scripture to pray the beads all year long. The same authors have a book from 2020 that is about using the beads to pray the psalms, too (I don't have it yet).

As for where you get them: I tried to stay with more handmade and less mass-produced. Mine is from a maker in the US on Etsy and I fell in love with it at first sight. I'd say that having beads that are just for you and feel right in your hands is important. Feels like a stronger pathway for connecting to God and to my own heart.

You might find a rosary maker elsewhere too, but I encourage trying to shop small whenever possible so you support an artist. You might find something extra personal and special that way!

I hope this gets you going and was any help to you. Happy New Year to you!

One of these days, I'll get that two-book set. I'm all over the map in my practice with what I use, but my main go-to is the Contemporary Office Book. (That's the one-volume set you referred to, I'm pretty sure.)

Frankly, I've managed much better regularity by incorporating my Morning Prayer with my Morning Walking of the Dog, for which I subscribe to the Morning Prayer Podcast done by the rector of the Episcopal Church in Garrett County, MD. Some people will hate the Native American flute music that underlies all various parts, but as it's R. Carlos Nakai, whose recordings I already listen to, I kind of like it. Except that the canticle and collect choices he uses have less variety than I use myself, I find it a very good way to pray and hear the Epistle and Gospel lesson. (My biggest gripe is that -- probably due to vacations or technical problems or like most clergy staff, being spread too thin -- gaps of weeks when it isn't updated can occur. We're currently in one, in that the last mp3 file that was made available was for July 17 -- two and a half weeks ago. I expect it will resume its normal daily schedule probably sometime after August if it doesn't before then.)

I also have the Anglican Breviary, but haven't gotten into the habit of using it. I find it more interesting just as reference.

Finally, one practice I took up during Lent, and have tried to return to, is using an Anglican rosary and incorporating mostly the structure and text used in the small paperback Praying with Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year. Since I'm generally only doing that once a day, when I do it (and usually in the evening), I change it up from their structure and use all of their Morning, Noon and Evening variations (plus a canticle and an antiphon, as well as the Apostles' Creed) for a single loop through the rosary.