The Liturgical Collection

Rosaries inspired by the seasons, feasts and traditions of the Catholic Church.

The church year is not a calendar so much as a rhythm, and it has a colour at every point of it: the deep violet that Advent and Lent share, the rose that interrupts each of them once, the white of the great feasts, the long green of Ordinary Time. A piece made for a season is made in the register that season is kept in, which is why the pieces gathered here read differently from one another even though the same hands closed every link.

They are not a separate product line. They are the rosaries on this bench whose colour and weight belong to a particular part of the year — a piece for Gaudete Sunday that could not be mistaken for a Lenten one, a feast-day piece that would look wrong in Holy Week. Nothing here is decorated to mark the season; it is simply made in it.

Every piece is assembled on individually turned links rather than threaded on a cord, so a single link can be opened and put right decades later without disturbing the rest of the strand. Because each is made singly by hand, no two come out the same, and one made again on request will differ a little from the one you saw.