Friday, November 18, 2011

Our Home Altar

I've been meaning to do this for a while and had a sort of home altar in a corner of our bedroom.  But I always found myself praying beside a certain window (next to this dresser) in our dining room that light pours in through during the morning hours.  So this morning I cleared off the top, emptied two drawers and got to work.  

Here's the top:


The drawer (arranged so you can see it before I stacked everything in, in a more practical manner!):


Paul's rosary is the green one.  Mine is the cobalt one:


A close up:


12 comments:

  1. That's beautiful! We have been creating a home altar in our room as well. So far it has a picture of the Sacred Heart, some candles (I have LED flameless ones in case the shelf gets knocked by the kids so they won't start a fire), a cross, our rosaries, two Bibles (one for the adults and a kids Bible), the Catechism and something else I'm not remembering. I need to remember to take a picture of it to post on our blog. Thanks for sharing yours with us!

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  2. Beautiful. My "altar" right now would be my nightstand, but it's not nearly as put together as yours.

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  3. I don't exactly have an "altar" right now but I do a lot of praying in my bed and I have little iconic pictures stuck into the corners of my mirror. I'm hoping to set up an altar once I move across state, but since I'm flying I don't want to buy anything too precious right now in case of it breaking.

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  4. That is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. We have been longing for a place to put ours, but our children are masters of sticky fingers. It would be destroyed in a day. Someday though I know we will have one.

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  5. Wow, this actually is quite beautiful. My "altar" isn't anything special: a table in my room heaped up with books: Two bibles (Different additions - One was a gift but I'm working on comparing the two), the liturgy of hours one-volume with it's companion, an annual sunday missal that needs to be replaced, a copy of the catechism (also a gift, and a thoughtful one). There's probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, but that's the meat of it.

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  6. I removed a shelf from a bookcase and used the space for an icon and statue place. It worked very well and is high enough up to keep the wee ones out of it, and my eyes fall on it often.

    I dream of a spot with a nice chair, morning light from a window, a place to put the tray with my coffee on it, and another spot for a Bible and Liturgy of the Hours and perhaps another book of devotions. Cozy and quiet for my personal prayer and spiritual reading time. Right now, there isn't anywhere to put such a place but one can dream. :)

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  7. I love this! Your icons are beautiful!

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  8. Love your tall statue of Our Lady. Do you recall it's source?

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  9. It's an Our Lady of Lourdes and we got it from a little Catholic Book Store in Redding, California. I think they were called Holy Family Books or something like that.

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  10. Thanks. I like it!

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  11. You can find the statue on an aquinas and more. Cam is that a pyx with oil on the metal tray? Are you allowed to have those in your homes?

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  12. Hi Lexie-

    It us a pyx, but no oil. It's just the kind that people have to bring the eucharist to the sick. We got one at our old parish for the occasional time when one of us was sick and the priest would send a eucharist home with us. Although I don't see that happening now that we attend the EF. Paul picked it up when he was in Rome. :)

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