Home altar catholic

How do you set up a Catholic home altar? An important part of the domestic church is creating a place to gather together for daily family prayer.

When we got married, one of the first things Tom insisted on was that we create a home altar. I had seen such things at the homes of a few Catholic families we knew, but never really understood how they were "used," or why they had decided to dedicate a specific area of their house for one. I resisted for a while, not wanting to sacrifice any space in our tiny little duplex towards something that I felt we would never actually use. Tom won out in the end, though, and we set up a little…

Brittany | A Catholic Convert on Instagram: "The story of how I turned an old hall tree into our beautiful home altar 🤎 I bought one heavily discounted at an antique fair, brought it home, removed and saved the mirror for later, and placed our crucifix at its center. At first I tried our Victorian blessed crucifix but it didn’t look right and I knew it was time to place it somewhere else in our home. Then I tried a million ways to affix Our Lady and St Joseph on brackets on the wall to the…

In continuing with our series Passing on the Catholic Faith to Your Kids, I wanted to touch on setting up a home altar. When I first heard the term home altar, I felt a little

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Display an image of Mary in your home. Click to learn more about Catholic homemaking.

Prayer is a key part of the Orthodox spiritual life. In this post, we show you how to set up an icon corner in your home, step by step.

No great saint went without seeking God in the midst of struggle and suffering, God is calling us too! If we are the domestic church, that means that our homes should be places that we go back to after being in the world where we find peace and the presence of Christ.

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