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Family prayer corners and home altars are common in Catholic homes around the world.
The Wynne family chapel features a statue of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. (photo: Courtesy of Lindy Wynne)
James Day BlogsJuly 18, 2024
It sounds like the basis for a reality show in the vein of Antiques Roadshow or American Pickers: a Tennessee Catholic browses through antique stores and church sales around the country finding secondhand items to adorn the home chapel she is building on her land. It would be called … Vintage Catholic.
And that is exactly what Lindy Wynne did during the four-month construction of her family’s home chapel, named “The Chapel of Mary’s Mantle” by her 9-year-old daughter. Wynne is the founder and host of the Catholic podcast and ministry Mamas in Spirit, featured on EWTN’s “Best of the Rest” catalog of podcasts.
Home chapels are a booming business, according to a February Wall Street Journalreport, though the WSJ’s piece emphasized the high cost such projects might run homeowners who desire their own sacred space. Lindy’s vision, however, aimed at what was previously owned or used. It was a vision interested not so much in keeping costs low, which it did, but it enabled Lindy to extend a bridge between brothers and sisters in the faith from the past.
“[These] are treasures to me, because they draw us closer to God and have been prayed with by many others,” Lindy said. “They point to what is unseen, yet is so real: Heaven.”
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James Day BlogsJuly 18, 2024
It sounds like the basis for a reality show in the vein of Antiques Roadshow or American Pickers: a Tennessee Catholic browses through antique stores and church sales around the country finding secondhand items to adorn the home chapel she is building on her land. It would be called … Vintage Catholic.
And that is exactly what Lindy Wynne did during the four-month construction of her family’s home chapel, named “The Chapel of Mary’s Mantle” by her 9-year-old daughter. Wynne is the founder and host of the Catholic podcast and ministry Mamas in Spirit, featured on EWTN’s “Best of the Rest” catalog of podcasts.
Home chapels are a booming business, according to a February Wall Street Journalreport, though the WSJ’s piece emphasized the high cost such projects might run homeowners who desire their own sacred space. Lindy’s vision, however, aimed at what was previously owned or used. It was a vision interested not so much in keeping costs low, which it did, but it enabled Lindy to extend a bridge between brothers and sisters in the faith from the past.
“[These] are treasures to me, because they draw us closer to God and have been prayed with by many others,” Lindy said. “They point to what is unseen, yet is so real: Heaven.”
Continued below.
Vintage Catholic: A Tennessee Catholic Reclaims Sacred Treasures for Home Chapel
Family prayer corners and home altars are common in Catholic homes around the world.
