Whether Taoist, Buddhist, or Catholic Christian , they never stop honouring their parents before or after death. However, one has to be careful in discerning whether they are doing ancestor worship or just praying for the dead or talking to their souls/spirits in heaven.
Interesting. Do you know if the crosses with writing are Christianized “ihai” and have names on them?
Yeah I agree.
Sorry I don’t know the answer to that.
My opinion is there is nothing wrong. However, we were taught to avoid unnecessary scandal. At the most basic level, intent is everything and only God knows that. However, there may be occasions where one attend a non-Christian funeral and to avoid showing disrespect to the bereaved may feel best to follow through with the action. Perhaps the older generation may feel that is the only way to honour your dead relative who may be a Taoist and not doing so may cause great disharmony among your relatives. However, the modern generations tend to be more open mind and may accept a simple bow of respect. However, there are Christians who are very very particular about this sort of things and I honestly think they are Pharisaic in nature. ie external showmanship is important. Very quick to condemn you to hell so to speak. Yes it is “just” incense. But sorry, I couldn’t handle that kind of smell personally
I don’t have the answer to that. Some folks feel that they need to have an altar, some don’t. In my place, I see rosaries hanging on to the rear view mirror in cars and crucifixes stuck on dashboards. Possibly to ward off evil and dangers or as a constant reminder not to sin! A police friend of my sister has his office adorned with Church objects in the midst of a very Muslim work environment. Good on him! Some people may have altars in the shop or work place as well, but these tends to be privately own businesses.
Well, I’m just particularly interested in Christian home altars in Asia regardless of Catholic or not, and I’m not interested in learning to set up a home altar (seeing as I’m Orthodox, I already have some experience of it with icon corners
). I’m trying to learn how much of the Asian practices were “baptised” by native Christians, etc. All of that’s why I created a new thread here in the non-Catholic religions boards.