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It is a little early, but have a happy and blessed Pentecost, the birthdate of our One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church!
i never thought of it that way before.....PaladinValer said:It is a little early, but have a happy and blessed Pentecost, the birthdate of our One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church!
interesting....!katherine2001 said:Well, an Orthodox prayer corner would have icons in it. Usually at the very least, you would have an icon of Christ (grown) and an icon of the Theotokos holding Christ as a child (though if you look at his face, He looks grown up in many ways). Most of us probably also have an icon of our patron saint (the saint's name we took as our baptismal name). I would say those should probably be a minimum. You can slowly get icons of other saints and icons of events in the scriptures (the death of Christ, His Resurrection, the Pentecost, etc) as you can afford them. All my icons are in one of my two icon/prayer corners. All icons should be blessed by the priest, which he usually does during the liturgy. He has them up on the altar. Also, you usually have an incense burner, charcoal and incense. Also, you would usually have a candle or a lampada that you keep lit while you are doing your prayers. Other people may have other things in their prayer corner, but I would say what I have is a minimum.
PaladinValer said:Right now, I'm using my dresser. I have my crucifix above it and interwoven in the rallings above the mirrow are palms. On the dresser, I have a statuette of St. Mary, St. Joseph (who I presume to be my patron saint), and of the Baby Jesus. I have two incense burners and several tealight candles. I would love to have some icons and two tall white candles along with some others stuff.
Hmmm...maybe we should have a thread specifically on home altars
Peter said:My prayer "corner"/altar is the top of my piano. We live in a very small house.