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Rosary beads

  • 06-01-2005 01:30AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭


    im looking for somewhere to buy rosary beads that doesnt entail going into a church. anyone know anywhere in dublin?id like to get a set that are as long as possible.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    Try here I don't think they are a church, or at least the shop is seperate:

    SAINT MARTIN APOSTOLATE 42 PARNELL SQUARE DUBLIN 1

    Shop linkie



    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    thanks.Ill give them a try. Hope they aint preachy or anything!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    I think by the time you are buying rosary beads they give you a free pass. Now I probably would not mention that they are just a fashion statement for an outfit. ;)


    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭vibrant


    Don't really understand why on earth anyone would want to wear a symbol of something they're hinting at disliking... it's actually quite offensive... but for what it's worth try Veritas on Lower Abbey Street. See? I can talk out of both sides of my mouth too :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    Outside of beliefs I think it is a new fashion to wear rosary beads. I know the church is pissed off in the states about it.


    :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    I'm with you on that one, Vibrant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Just wait till communion season, they'll pop up everywhere, dunno why you'd wear them though, they're kinda evil feeling, mine are shoved under my bed or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭vibrant


    Miles wrote:
    I think it is a new fashion to wear rosary beads.


    Oh. I thought they were required for a Madonna-circa-1983 outfit. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    Here is a news link on BBC:

    Church upset



    Church fears rosary fashion craze


    David Beckham modelled a rosary for Vanity Fair magazine
    A fashion craze for rosary beads has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.
    After pop star Britney Spears and England footballer David Beckham were both recently photographed wearing them, sales are booming across the UK.

    So much so that the Catholic Church fears they are being trivialised and has issued a special leaflet that gives guidance on their use as prayer aids.

    Yet one jeweller said they were now more and more seen as fashion items.


    Prayer counters

    Father Allen Morris, secretary of the Catholic Church's department for Christian life and worship, said that while rosary beads "look very nice...it is a great pity if they are only being used as a decoration and not for devotional purposes".


    They are definitely very fashionable at the moment, and seen as a nice piece of jewellery, not just a religious item

    Jeweller Aida Norman

    He added that while such celebrities wearing rosary beads were "not doing wicked things and leading us astray, I am sorry that people are wearing them as fashion accessories and are not mindful of their religious significance".

    The beads are traditionally used by Roman Catholics to count off prayers.

    At jewellery store Aida in Ealing, London, owner Aida Norman said there had definitely been a surge in rosary bead sales over the last year.

    Pretty designs

    "They are definitely very fashionable at the moment, and seen as a nice piece of jewellery, not just a religious item," she said.

    "I have always sold a great many of them around traditional confirmation time, such as May and June, but now they are selling very quickly throughout the year."

    In past years the Roman Catholic Church has complained about celebrities such as Madonna, who is a lapsed Catholic, wearing crucifixes.

    Father Morris noted that the rosary also bears a crucifix.

    "It is a very odd thing to wear as a piece of decoration - the cross is an instrument of torture," he said.

    "Why not wear an electric chair?"






    :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    vibrant wrote:
    Oh. I thought they were required for a Madonna-circa-1983 outfit. :cool:



    I think I probably agree with you on that. ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    So, do they wear them around their necks or on their wrists?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    I think mostly around their necks, but long ones are preferred.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    Miles wrote:


    In past years the Roman Catholic Church has complained about celebrities such as Madonna, who is a lapsed Catholic, wearing crucifixes.

    :cool:



    There's a quote for you Vibrant. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    i want rosary beads cos i think they look nice.not as a symbol of hate revenge anger or anything.the reason i dont wish to enter a church is cos i aint catholic.i think u jumped to conclusions a bit 2 quickly by thinking i was just another goth or pagan.i may be a goth but how do u know im not a christian too.who says i cant be both.
    thank u again for your suggestions.sorry for the rant i just get a lot of **** from people for what i wear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭vibrant


    Nightwish wrote:
    i think u jumped to conclusions a bit 2 quickly by thinking i was just another goth or pagan

    Did I miss something? Is Madonna a goth? I thought she was into the Kaballah now. Is Kaballah the "new goth"? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Miles


    Nightwish wrote:
    i want rosary beads cos i think they look nice.not as a symbol of hate revenge anger or anything.the reason i dont wish to enter a church is cos i aint catholic.i think u jumped to conclusions a bit 2 quickly by thinking i was just another goth or pagan.i may be a goth but how do u know im not a christian too.who says i cant be both.
    thank u again for your suggestions.sorry for the rant i just get a lot of **** from people for what i wear.


    Yea I now Nightwish, I think we were just chatting about the rosary bead fashion trend more than anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Nightwish, I don't think anyone meant to offend you, I'm sorry if I did anyhoo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    its ok i get a little touchy sometimes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    Nightwish wrote:
    its ok i get a little touchy sometimes
    Yep, its part of being a goth...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭meepmeep


    River Island have them, I saw them in there the other day.

    This was the one in Wateford but i'm sure the rest will have them as well


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    This isn't meant to cause offense to anyone, so apologies, but I hate the idea of wearing the rosary beads as a fashion item.

    To a lot of people, they're precious. I know both my grandmothers couldn't be parted from theirs. They represent a lot to some people. So why debase them? It's as if you wore the Koran as a hat. Or decided to wear a Jewish prayer hat because it looked cool.

    BTW, I'm not religious, but I think it's about having respect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭vibrant


    Well said, dudara.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭meepmeep


    well i wouldn't wear them but then again im not catholic so they don't mean anything to me as such, but I can see why some people wouldn't like it.

    But each to their own....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭cajun_tiger


    they have them on sale in metal morphis the crazy clothes part... i don't get the craze my self but hey what ever floats your boat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    wheres metal morphis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭cajun_tiger


    TEMPLE BAR
    its a piercing salon and its really cheep too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    i know the place. thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Rosary beads are in fashion???

    Whatever next? Scapulars? (We used to get lots of these sent to us from my great-aunt who is a nun when we were small).

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    I have to agree with Dudara, though - you should only wear these things if you believe in the religion behind them. If you don't believe, long beaded necklaces should do the trick in terms of appearance.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Well, on the one hand we shouldn't go out of our way to insult people's religious beliefs, but on the other hand...it's already been stated that Nightwish isn't a Catholic - why should she be required to not wear certain items because of this? [Off topic]I mean, these things are objects - in terms of the actual book concerned, that'd come perilously close to breaking one of the commandments - the important thing is the faith, not the trappings of faith. It's like saying a priest without a dog collar is just some bloke reading from a book[/Off topic]

    But, if non-catholics aren't allowed to wear rosary beads, does this mean all those stellas and skangers who wear crosses around their necks shouldn't be allowed to?

    I don't see what the big deal is; it's as if people were going out of their way to be insulted by something. I don't understand how, if I were catholic, someone wearing a religious symbol without being catholic would be personally insulting. It's not like they're going up to people and saying "nyer, I think your religion is a bit poo but I like this thing so I'm going to wear it". My gran would probably find it upsetting, but then again my gran finds it upsetting that they show Vicar Of Dibley and Father Ted, because she thinks they "make a mockery of the church". I don't get why people like to think that, in this context where nobody is actually approaching them or forcing them to acknowledge something, they have the right to not be offended.

    Having said all that...I wouldn't wear one myself, because the symbol doesn't really do it for me. But if I found some other religious symbol or icon that I liked, I'd have no hesitation in wearing a picture of it, regardless of whether its adherents consider themselves to be insulted by this.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭elivsvonchiaing


    Fysh wrote:
    Well, on the one hand we shouldn't go out of our way to insult people's religious beliefs, but on the other hand...it's already been stated that Nightwish isn't a Catholic - why should she be required to not wear certain items because of this? [Off topic]I mean, these things are objects - in terms of the actual book concerned, that'd come perilously close to breaking one of the commandments - the important thing is the faith, not the trappings of faith. It's like saying a priest without a dog collar is just some bloke reading from a book[/Off topic]

    But, if non-catholics aren't allowed to wear rosary beads, does this mean all those stellas and skangers who wear crosses around their necks shouldn't be allowed to?

    I don't see what the big deal is; it's as if people were going out of their way to be insulted by something. I don't understand how, if I were catholic, someone wearing a religious symbol without being catholic would be personally insulting. It's not like they're going up to people and saying "nyer, I think your religion is a bit poo but I like this thing so I'm going to wear it". My gran would probably find it upsetting, but then again my gran finds it upsetting that they show Vicar Of Dibley and Father Ted, because she thinks they "make a mockery of the church". I don't get why people like to think that, in this context where nobody is actually approaching them or forcing them to acknowledge something, they have the right to not be offended.

    Having said all that...I wouldn't wear one myself, because the symbol doesn't really do it for me. But if I found some other religious symbol or icon that I liked, I'd have no hesitation in wearing a picture of it, regardless of whether its adherents consider themselves to be insulted by this.
    Think in a nutshell - this is about having respect for older folks. I couldn't give a flying fúck if saw a bunch of goths wearing rosary beads each carrying a chalice up O'Connell street. Think it would upset the older generation though - think this is the way it should be:... by all means wear rosaries - just wait to to put them on when you get to where your going, i.e. pub (if its a young pub), nightclub etc.


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