Pearls of life

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Pearls of faith

The pearls of life , also called pearls of faith , are a pearl band that was developed in 1995 by Martin Lönnebo , a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden .

Origin and Distribution

Bishop Lönnebo was stuck on a Greek island for several days in 1995 because of a storm. When he saw Greek fishermen there with their Kombologia , he had the idea of ​​the Pearls of Life (Swedish: Livets Pärlor ). First he designed a life ring made of pearls on paper (hence the Swedish name Frälsarkransen ), giving each pearl a meaning. On his return to Sweden he made a pearl ribbon based on this design and used it for prayer. His invention quickly spread in Sweden.

The pearls first came to Germany as "pearls of faith" through the spiritualist Kirstin Faupel-Drevs and after the Ecumenical Church Congress in Berlin in May 2003, at the instigation of the Public Service Office (AfÖ) of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, they were further spread in the German-speaking world Room. In 2006, the Gütersloh publishing house published the German translation of the Swedish original edition Livets Pärlor, the book Perlen des Lebens by Carolina Welin and Carolina Johansson, after the name Livets Pärlor or Pearls of Life / Perlen was used internationally alongside the term Frälsarkransen (“Heilandskranz”) of the life for the prayer wreath by Martin Lönnebo had become more and more popular.

Since 2011 there has been the possibility of being accompanied by the pearls of life in the form of an app . To deal with the pearl wreaths, various spiritual courses are offered, mainly by Protestant academies , conference centers and retreats.

Pearls

With the chain consisting of 18 pearls, each pearl has a meaning, stands for a question of life , a thought or a prayer. There are no binding fixed prayer formulations. However, Martin Lönnebo has written a book with various prayer suggestions. For each pearl, a meditation is held or a prayer is said on the corresponding topic .

Schematic representation of the pearls of faith:
1. God pearl
2. Pearl of silence
3. I-pearl
4. Baptism pearl
5. Desert
pearl 6. Pearl of serenity
7. Pearls of love
8. Mysterious pearls
9. Pearl of the night
10. Pearl of resurrection

The order of the pearls of faith, clockwise starting from the large golden pearl, is:

  • God's pearl
  • Pearl of silence
  • I-pearl
  • Baptismal bead
  • Pearl of silence
  • Desert pearl
  • Pearl of silence
  • Pearl of serenity
  • Pearl of silence
  • Two pearls of love
  • Three secret pearls
  • Pearl of the night
  • Pearl of silence
  • Pearl of resurrection
  • Pearl of silence

In this order, the pearls are also a symbol for the path of life. They also constitute a catechism .

literature

  • Carolina Johansson, Carolina Welin: Pearls of Life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-579-06860-1 .
  • Carolina Welin: Living Loving Relationships with the Pearls of Life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-06865-7 .
  • Public Service Office of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in cooperation with the Pastoral Office in the Archdiocese (ed.): Living with the pearls of faith. Lutherische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-87503-148-5 .
  • Joachim Zierke: Pearl Age. Meditations and prayers to the pearls of faith. Lutherische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-87503-145-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frälsarkransen (accessed February 23, 2017)
  2. ↑ Martin Lönnebo
  3. ↑ M. Lönnebo: Frälsarkransen , verb, Stockholm ISBN 978-91-526-3248-2