Dear Friends,
Serbian Orthodox do indeed have prayer ropes and here is a Serbian Orthodox monastery that makes them:
www.stpaisiusmonastery.org/ropes.htm [
stpaisiusmonastery.org]
In Serbian, it is called the "brosianitsa" I believe or "counter." I gave one to a Serbian friend at work when she was pregnant and she has always worn it on her left wrist ever since.
Interesting that the above site states that prayer ropes with divider beads every 25 knots are "Greek style" but when they are every ten, they are "Russian style."
The Serbians even have some "neat" ways of using the prayer rope.
For example, when praying for others, one begins by saying the Jesus Prayer in this way "have mercy on me a sinner and on (the names of those you wish to pray for)."
But after the first prayer in this way, one continues with "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner and on Thy commemorated servants" (pomyanuvshykh rabov Tvoikh) and so until the end of the "hundredth" and then one begins again in this way.
Alex
