Crucifixes in the Home

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I like the St. Benedict crucifix too, but does anyone know anything about it being specifically for the sick and dying. When I look at them online I see them referred to as such. Does anyone know anything about that. Does anyone have one over a bed or on a mantle?

I also know Gabrielle Amorth, the famed Vatican Exorcist uses them exclusively.
 
Ours are rather simple, made of Oak, so they go with the rest of the furniture. Although my favorite is a plastic one, maybe 6" by 8", that I got as a gift from my Godparents at my First Holy Communion.
 
I have small basic crucifixes above both my living room (front door) and in my kitchen (back door). Then there are small San Damiano crucifixes above my bedroom door and office room doors. There is a large sick call crucifix above my bed, and a large Latin crucifix in my guestroom.

I believe that puts the count at six in the house.

In college I put small San Damiano crusifixes above each door in the house the school put me in. All of my roommates were non-practicing Catholics so they didn’t mind. The choice of crucifix was based not unnecessary on a liking of Franciscan theology, but because a three inch one was $1.50 at the bookstore down the street from the university.
 
chococat said:
Sorry you feel that way englishredrose. I have a small crucifix on each door to my house and on each interior door as well as blessed palms in the house. I have seen with my own eyes the protection they offer. On two separate occasions, my outside doors were open, and a large bolt of lightening came through my living room straight through the room and would have hit the far wall but there were blessed palms on my mantle and the lightening actually backed up and went back through the outside door doing no damage!!! I would have not believed if someone had told me that but I was sitting on the couch holding my baby girl and saw it happen, The second incident happed in the kitchen door a few monhs later. The lightening headed down the basement stairs and there was a small crucifix on the door to the rec room. Same thing happened, it backed up and went outside without hitting anything.So believe me blessed articles of faith do protect our homes.😉
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Is your Faith then is in the objects rather than in God? For God is with us where ever we are

Please, I amnot being rude here or anything but just want to explore this visual aspect.
 
englishredrose said:
Is your Faith then is in the objects rather than in God? For God is with us where ever we are

Please, I amnot being rude here or anything but just want to explore this visual aspect.
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I have faith that God will used blessed objects to protect me from evil. It is still God in whom I have faith. I have faith that the water of my baptism (that God used) washed away my sins. It is okay to believe that God uses physical objects to convey spiritual help and to increase our faith. Laus, tibi Christe!.

The Catechism of the Council of Trent: “A Sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible grace, instituted for our justification.”
 
lizaanne said:
I am a self defined sacramentals snob. 😃 I don’t like anything cheap, cheesy, or plastic-y.

I have this one in my guest bedroom, and a similar one, but very art deco in style, in our bedroom.

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In the living room and in my office I have very slender and simple silver crucifixes. Still want to get one for the kitchen and a small one for the bathroom over the door.

~Liza
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Very pretty, I have a nice one over my bed, but thats it, I like pics with verses on them for other places in the home. I also did put a crucifix in our camper.
 
lizaanne said:
I am a self defined sacramentals snob. 😃 I don’t like anything cheap, cheesy, or plastic-y.

I have this one in my guest bedroom, and a similar one, but very art deco in style, in our bedroom.

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In the living room and in my office I have very slender and simple silver crucifixes. Still want to get one for the kitchen and a small one for the bathroom over the door.

~Liza
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I just recv’d a catalog from EWTN…this beautiful crucifix is featured.I am going to order one!🙂
 
Zekariya said:
I have faith that God will used blessed objects to protect me from evil. It is still God in whom I have faith. I have faith that the water of my baptism (that God used) washed away my sins. It is okay to believe that God uses physical objects to convey spiritual help and to increase our faith. Laus, tibi Christe!.

The Catechism of the Council of Trent: “A Sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible grace, instituted for our justification.”
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It not the object that protects us… blessed or otherwise?

What is the commandment about thou shalt not have grave images of God… forgive me for not having exact wording?

and please, again, don’t think I am being rude for that is not what I am meaning to be…😉
 
englishredrose said:
It not the object that protects us… blessed or otherwise?

What is the commandment about thou shalt not have grave images of God… forgive me for not having exact wording?

and please, again, don’t think I am being rude for that is not what I am meaning to be…😉
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You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth;
you shall not bow down to them or serve them;
for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,

It starts with “You shall have no other gods before me.” It then says at the end “you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God”. The implication is that the images were being made to be worshipped as God.

Not to mention God commanded them to make images of Cherubim for the Ark of the Covenant and the bronze serpent.

Therefore when Catholics state the fist commandment the say, “1. I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.” because that covers everything.
 
englishredrose said:
What is the commandment about thou shalt not have grave images of God… forgive me for not having exact wording?
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That commandment forbids us from worshiping the image itself. The image simply reminds us of God, and leads us to prayer.
 
Like others have said, I do not like the plastic-look crucifixes. I have a few at home, but I prefer traditional wooden cross with a metal corpus. The harder the wood and the heavier the better. I find it increasingly difficult to find a crucifix with a good corpus. Many I have looked at look OK from a distance, but when you get closer the face looks like Richard Branson or someone - definitlely not what I’m after!

Anyway, in saying this I prefer pectoral crosses worn by Bishops and other prelates to be all metal, and I do not like the wooden ones. I don’t know why. It is the same with the crucifix on the Rosary. I prefer all metal when small, and a wooden cross when larger.
 
It’s a bit like the pictures we have of our loved ones in the home, we love the person the photo represents, not the photo in itself…
 
Slaney said:
It’s a bit like the pictures we have of our loved ones in the home, we love the person the photo represents, not the photo in itself…
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Yes! I’ve often heard it explained as similar to the husband who kisses a picture of his wife every morning that he is away on a trip. No one would accuse him of worshiping the paper.
 
Can we get two twigs/tree branches ,make a cross and get the priest to bless it?
 
I have two crucifixes in my home. The first is in my passage and can be seen immediately when entering the house through the front door. The second is a San Damiano cross that hangs above my bed.

I think it is important to have religious symbols in the home because it is a visual testimony of your faith in Christ. Visitors are aware of my faith in Christ as soon as they enter my house.
 
My favorite crucifix is the one my grandparents got from a convent when it closed.

Here is another crucifix I like because it displays IMHO a very realistic version of how Christ must have looked on the cross. Seeing the wounds all over His body raises my heart and makes me want to be a better Christian.

 
AJB328 said:
SInce I’ve come back to the Church I’ve spent some time and more than some money on sacramentals (standard Catholic starter kit: wall and necklace crucifixes, half a dozen rosaries, missals, etc).

One of my first purchases was a standard Latin crucifix and then I bought a St. Benedict one which I’m starting to think is my favorite, but as I look around I see San Damiano, Papal, Tau, Celtic…

So my question is what is your favorite type of crucifix? Why? Do you prefer a certain type over your bed and another in the living room or in the kitchen?

God Bless

-AJ
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We have this gorgeous Sick Call, it is really beautiful, and in the bedroom we have a really nice Cherry Wood with ivory corpus, am getting ready to order a Celtic sick call for my son and his wife for Christmas.
 
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