Blue 50-bead (Preciosa glass w/ cathedral spacers) prayer rope chotki50 bead Orthodox prayer rope chotki komboskini for praying the Rule of the Mother of God (Theotokos) Every decade (10 beads) is separated by a cathedral style Czech glass bead,. 50 fine Czech glass beads are 8mm each. Strung on wire! Will not stretch! Each is handmade by a nun of the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, an Orthodox women's monastery in Mississippi. Russian Orthodox Christian, Greek Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Antiochian Orthodox, Serbian

Maximos the Confessor

her hypostasis shone forth already perfected from a tender age

The inscription on the reverse side: "Спаси и сохрани" (bless and save)

When her image is distorted

The angels are always mindful of their createdness: they cover their faces and their feet with four wings to preserve their humility before the Lord Who brought them from non-being into being

Archimandrite Maximos Constas

sketches and maps

after some forty years of monastic life

This struggle is dispassionate

O Virgin Mother of God

and colorful pages throughout the book

Finished with a knotted cross