2013年1月7日星期一

Some of the finished products have traveled outside

On a cold and cloudy Wednesday afternoon, a group of women sat at tables in the gathering area of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church.

Much of the time, their heads were bent over rosary beads.

The women, all retired, weren’t actually praying the rosary — a sequence of prayers said while going from one bead to the next. They were making them, connecting one bead at a time.

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Since September 2010, the group has strung almost 1,will show you how to make a flower hair bow out of your own hair flower.000 rosaries. The rosaries are given away to missionaries, local children participating in their first Communion or Confirmation and to engaged couples preparing for marriage.

Most of the women also work on the rosaries at home. Kathleen Popp, 72, averages one a day. The women make two types — a cord rosary, in which beads are strung on white string — and a rosary fashioned with beads and a metal chain.

“We have to start from scratch,” said Marilyn Rehberg, 83, of Wisconsin Rapids.

The 20-gauge wire is twisted into a link and cut, one link at a time.

“It took me three weeks to learn to chain three (links),” said Mary Gokey, 69, of Wisconsin Rapids.

She stuck with it. The women insist it just takes time and patience to learn. They joke they would get more done at their semimonthly gatherings if they didn’t have so much fun visiting.

The women enjoy being together, and although they joke about who has made the most rosaries, it’s not a competition.

Some of the finished products have traveled outside the country. The parish parochial administrator, the Rev. Sahayanathan Nathan, took a couple hundred rosaries with him on a trip to India.

“The idea is to just make them and give them away, so someone will be praying the rosary,” Buckley said.

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