We worked with Shelfology to create custom shelves for our Buddhist Altar. This gives us a place to respect & honor Buddha and our ancestors.
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The Ceramic Wall Altar is the perfect way to add a meaningful accent to your home. Crafted from beautiful white terra cotta for longevity this will be an heirloom piece. The altar can be hung on the wall, filled with flowers in its built in vase, and hold your favorite religious artwork.At 10"x10"x4", this altar is the perfect size for displaying on a living room wall or near a prayer area. We pray that this altar may hold precious items that inspire a sense of calmness in your heart and closeness to the Lord within your home. This wall altar makes a beautiful addition to your home decor, or a thoughtful housewarming gift for loved ones. How to style the wall altar Fill the vase with your favorite flowers. We love to use dried flowers. Frame and display a beautiful icon, prayer card, or statue Light a small candle during times of prayer or meditation We love to see how you style the altar! Snap a photo, post on social media and tag us @beaheartdesign for a chance to be featured on our page. Product details:Ceramic10"x10"x4" This product does not include flower or props for the altar.
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No chickens have been hurt in this installation! In my studio I have an altar. I pray before this altar when I arrive and when I finish and leave for the day. My studio altar consists of objects found or made. Each object has a meaning or memory which I hol
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they …
Docteur Cæli D'Anto's Vodou altar.
We often (and for the past 4-5 years) have used our piano bench as a teaching spot. Not only does it seat my kids for piano practice, but it has served as a make-shift altar for when they play Mass. In the bench they store an altar cloth, a little missal, and other small necessities used to play Mass. And every time I hear the kids say "OK...I'm going to be the priest today. Let's go play," I start daydreaming about finally having the perfect little altar in our home. Now that we are mostly settled in our new home, I've decided to just do it!! Visions in my mind abound with the many home altars I've seen, especially those found in Mexico. Since we moved in, I've been using our entry table from our previous home to house some statues, rosaries, and holy water. As you can barely see, there is a drawer that holds prayer cards, a rosary booklet, and some rosaries. What the table is missing is a little table cloth to coincide with the liturgical season, a bible, and perhaps a candle. Now when we do our morning rosary and offering, we are usually upstairs in the school room. It's a great start to our school day and the room is sunny, bright, and uplifting. Not only do we do our morning prayers in our school room, but we often read our Bible there before bedtime. So my new goal is to create an altar in our school room. After searching for images of home altars, I have come to one important conclusion. Home altars vary from home to home and anything from family photos to holy cards can be placed on them. Home altars aren't usually fancy and any table, bookcase, or space will do. It's really what works for your family. When thinking "What's going to work for us?" I came up with a list of things that I absolutely wanted in our altar prayer space. An interactive space. I wanted something that can be a hands-on area. A place where the kids can feel that they can come to and touch things. I want to be inspired and I want the kids to be inspired. Sometimes looking at something beautiful or hearing beautiful music, inspires us to think about God. A learning space. Some books are usually left unnoticed unless I take them out. Perhaps highlighting a saint's book on the altar or prayer space would encourage a child to ask about it or read it. A showcase. An altar with room to display what the kids are learning about in saint and religious studies, as well as crafts dedicated to our beautiful Catholic faith. Flexibility. I want to be able to switch things around easily.Not too difficult of a list, is it? Well, after rearranging books, finding appropriate art, and visualizing where things should go...our altar is complete!! Lucky for me that I have lots of pretty frames of Jesus and Our Lady to choose from as well as a number of holy statues; all of which I plan to rotate. So following is a little "tour" of our new school room Catholic altar, complete with picture by picture descriptions!! I decided to go with what I had and used two bookcases for our altar. All the books seen here pertain to our Catholic faith, lives of the saints, etc. The area is in a little corner by the window and offers lots of natural light. Also, if you notice that I'm keeping the altar cloths to go in conjunction with the liturgical season...these are just pretty napkins that I was able to get of all the liturgical colors (mine are from Pier 1 Imports). A picture of what's on top of our home altar. And a close up. To the left I decided to hang the kids' rosaries and put a statue of Our Lady of Fatima. I thought this was perfect because it has the three children (Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta) kneeling before her. A great example to any child. In the center I placed the kids' bible. Behind the Bible there is a makeshift altar upon which our crucifix is and our "Father Nick"is on the side. This is part of the interactive part of our altar in which the kids can change the liturgical colors on the priest paper-doll, as well as on the little white altar. Currently we have green for ordinary time. And it's nothing fancy either. The altar is a small box covered with white paper and the "altar cloth" is actually a piece of construction paper. On the right side, I hung our St. Michael holy water font. I also have our saints book, "Saints, A Year in Faith and Art." This book features a saint for every day of the year. The glass container is like a prayer jar. Every time we pray together, like the rosary, we take out all the little papers from the glass container. Each paper has an intention for us to pray for. It might be something like an end to abortion, a prayer for a family member or friend, or for any other intentions we come up with. This is an excellent way to teach your children how to pray for others and it keeps us from forgetting someone or something that we meant to pray for. Also notice that the kids have put their cootie catchers there too. Above it all is a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This particular piece of art was a gift from my mom about 10 years ago. She got it in Mexico and I have always loved it. In the future I plan to rotate with other religious art that I have, perhaps to coordinate with the liturgical year. I thought I would post a picture of this too. It's the book cases I use for our little home altar. I keep all our children's religious books here. From lives of the saints, to Catholic homeschool resources. It's a place where the kids (or I) can go to get a book and be uplifted. The top-most shelves are for the sole purpose of the kids. On the left I keep a pretty picture of Our Lady, a candle for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and two books that I pick out for the kids to read to themselves or for me to read aloud. Currently we have "For the Children" and "Once Upon a Time Saints" (laying on the shelf). These books will also be rotated with others. On the right side, I keep a bin full of rosary books, liturgical vestments for our priest paper-doll, napkins in the liturgical colors to cover our altar, construction paper for the little paper altar, our prayer wheel, and other little things for the kids to play with and do. I will be taking paper activities from our liturgical box to keep this somewhat stocked. And that concludes the tour of our new school room, home altar. I love it and it works for our family's needs. From being interactive and inspirational, to being a great learning space with flexibility. I'm sure that as time passes, this space will evolve and continue to change along with our needs.
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Creating a prayer room in your home provides a tranquil space where you can escape the hustle and bustle of daily life and connect with your spirituality. Whether you're pressed for space or have a whole room to dedicate to your practice, here's how to create a sacred space that reflects your faith and personal style.
The statue of Our Lady of Fatima venerated outside the pilgrimage church of Maria Vesperbild in Bavaria, Germany.
