Chotkis

Chotkis.com offers a unique collection of artisan made Chotki prayer ropes, mainly in 33 bead and 50 bead configurations, many are "One of a Kind" pieces. Crucifixes and crosses are recasts of antique and vintage pieces, hand cast in solid Bronze and Sterling Silver. These are not necklaces.

33 Bead Robles Wood and Red Horn Chotki $54.00    |    Details »	Rich Robles Wood and Black Horn 33 Bead Chotki Out of Stock    |    Details »	Salwag and Carved Black Horn 33 Bead Chotki Sold    |    Details »
Black Onyx, Hand Cut Garnets and Red Horn Chotki $73.00    |    Details »	Faceted Sodalite and Ebony Wood 33 Bead Chotki Sold    |    Details »	Palm Wood and Ebony Wood 33 Bead Chotki $47.00    |    Details »
Carved Tea Dyed Bone and Gemstone 50 Bead Chotki Sold    |    Details »	Robles Wood and Black Horn 50 Bead Chotki Out of Stock    |    Details »	Robles Wood Tubes and Red Horn 33 Bead Chotki $52.00    |    Details »
Natural Salwag Seed and Carved Horn 33 Bead Chotki $47.00    |    Details »	Carved Black Buri and Ebony Wood 33 Bead Chotki $63.00    |    Details »	Agate and Baltic Amber Wire Wrapped 33 Bead Chotki Sold    |    Details »

The 'JESUS PRAYER' and the Chotki Prayer Rope
The prayer's origin is thought to be with the Desert Fathers, monks who settle in the Egyptian desert in the fifth century. The practice of repeating the prayer continually dates back to at least the fifth century. The earliest known mention is in the work of St. Diadochos of Photiki (400-ca.486), found in the first volume of the Philokalia. St. Diadochos ties the practice of the Jesus Prayer to the purification of the soul and teaches that repetition of the prayer produces inner peace, "Prayer of the Heart".

Prayer of the Heart is ... "When mind and heart are united in prayer and the soul is wholly concentrated in a single desire for God, then the heart grows warm and the light of Christ begins to shine and fills the inward man with peace and joy." St. Seraphim of Sarov

Prayer ropes have a written history since about the 6th century, called "Komboskini" in Greek and "Chotki" in Russian, but the prayer itself, the "Jesus Prayer" comes from the new testament. Though the Jesus Prayer has been practiced through the centuries as part of the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, in the twentieth century it also began to be used in some Western churches, including some Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.