to have a hole in my knowledge regarding blue rosaries?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I have just been told the significance of these.



Actually, I think I'm getting to the stage where nothing really shocks me anymore.

[jaded]

[topsyturner]

Ooooh , test my levels of jadedness and tell me the significance .
(dd making her first communion next week , you could poss save me from making some horrific faux pas !)

[Bucharest]

Tell me too.
My friend bought me a blue one from Lourdes.....

[Andie20521]

Just googled it and found nothing????

[Seabright]

Another hole of knowledge here. And if google doesn't know, it's obviously a fairly big hole.

Tell us!

[Groovee]

I don't know either

[Katiepoes]

Tell tell, I had one years ago before I turned into a godless heathen. It was blue and sparkly as I recall.

[justkeepingheadabovewater]

Please share with the group!!!

[HeidiKat]

Marking my place on this thread, I would like to know as well as I am a somewhat lasped Catholic but have never heard of different colour rosaries meaning stuff.

[HRHJoyceOfBarnaby]

I didn't even know they came in different colours - what's the difference? How did you find out?

[HerHissyness]

Are you sure they are not Anal bead Chaos?

What IS the significance then? c'mon, spill!

[Katiepoes]

My keyboard is now under a layer of coffee at the idea that at age six I owned a set of blue sparkly anal beads. Given to me by a nun.

[NotCastingAClout]

I always thought in Catholicism blue symbolised the Virgin Mary, might be wrong though.

[FruStefanLindman]

OK, I've found a couple of things on t'internet.

One is not shocking - that it's supposed to remind you of Our Lady (Mary, mother of Jesus)

The other one could be deemed to be shocking - they are prison issue rosaries

[HerHissyness]

[PaisleyLeaf]

is it to do with these people?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Nope, keep guessing.

[HerHissyness]

Against female clergy?

[PaisleyLeaf]

The World Mission Rosary?

"Each decade of that World Mission Rosary calls to mind an area where the Church continues her evangelizing mission: green for the forests and grasslands of Africa; blue for the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacific; white symbolizing Europe, the seat of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world; red calling to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas and yellow, the morning light of the East, for ASIA."

[Punkatheart]

A Catholic mystery - like it!

[justkeepingheadabovewater]

marking place - should really be getting ready to go out with DS but too intrigued...

[JamieAgain]

It's nothing to do with religion - it's teenagers marking off sexual exploits with beads

[Katiepoes]

Is it something to do with the pro-lifers? Or poor babas buried in unconsecrated ground?
If it's worse than the Padre Pio stuff it must be bad indeed...

[Cattleprod]

It's nothing to do with dragonbutter is it?

[GrimmaTheNome]

YANBU.

It is completely reasonable to neither know nor care the supposed significance of a set of beads.

[FruStefanLindman]

Something to do with 'ring' rosaries, which are smaller, round, rigid and with beads round the edge - could be used as an, ahem, sex toy?