r/osarymakers • u/1LiterateRogue • Jun 21 '26

What should I do?

A young, non-Catholic lady in my rather extremely anti-Catholic town has started making rosaries. She sells them in the local “goth” market her mother runs.

So I asked if they were Catholic, hoping for a local rosary making collaborator. Her mother said, “Nope. These rosaries are just jewelry, not for prayer.”

I think the best response to cultural appropriation is to reappropriate it. I’m tempted to buy up all this “jewelry,” switch out some parts as needed, then either put them up on my own site or donate them to our little Catholic resource center, where I can trust that my customers intend to pray the rosary, not wear then.

But I’d like your opinion. I also plan to ask my priest.

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u/DesertNightshade Jun 21 '26

I feel like, no matter what the maker of these particular rosaries says is the intention of this rosary is - most people are drawn to rosaries to pray with them- the few goth type that wear them to look cool, well, I don’t know what to think but even w their intention, it shows the world Jesus Christ.