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I converted to Catholism about 27 years ago. I left the Church about 15 years ago - and returned last year. My husband isn’t Catholic. I have two children that just started RCIA (for children) last week. I’ve been looking at several web sites, for Catholic things to put in my home. I don’t want to offend my husband. I’m also looking for something for the kids rooms. They are 8 (boy) and a girl (6).

I’ve been looking for a staute of Mary - or the Holy Family for myself. I haven’t really found anything I like. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks
 
There are so many options online for statues, Rosaries, medals etc! Do a quick google search.
 
When I was eight years old I set up a small table in my bedroom with a crucifix, a rosary, my Bible, some pcitures and prayer cards, and my Baptism candles (I have two for some reason…). I would add things to it all the time (candles from the Easter Vigil, books from the parish bookstore, palm branch from Palm Sunday shaped into a cross, ect.). It was my favorite place to pray. Maybe your children would like to have something like this?
 
My wife had a small statute of Mary in her room growing up, I think its a wonderful present for a child.
 
Perhaps a statue of Mary for the girl and a statue of Saint Joseph for the boy? I also was thinking maybe an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Then again, nothing replaces a beautiful crucifix if you don’t already have one of those ;).
 
spalady said:
I’ve been looking at several web sites, for Catholic things to put in my home. I don’t want to offend my husband. I’m also looking for something for the kids rooms. They are 8 (boy) and a girl (6).
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I’m in the same boat. My wife isn’t Catholic, and I have to boys who I am raising up in the Catholic faith. I suspect that with two children in RCIA, your husband, like my wife, is supportive of your efforts. Have you talked with him about getting a statue or crucifix with yet?

I am sorry that I can’t recommend any online sources for the items you seek. Look in the yellow pages for religious book stores and church supply stores. Someone at church may be able to point you to some good ones.
 
spalady said:
I converted to Catholism about 27 years ago. I left the Church about 15 years ago - and returned last year. My husband isn’t Catholic. I have two children that just started RCIA (for children) last week. I’ve been looking at several web sites, for Catholic things to put in my home. I don’t want to offend my husband. I’m also looking for something for the kids rooms. They are 8 (boy) and a girl (6).

I’ve been looking for a staute of Mary - or the Holy Family for myself. I haven’t really found anything I like. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks
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To give you an idea what you can get have a look at what I have in my home.

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Thistle - Thanks so much for showing me what you have in your home. It’s very inspirational.

Matas - yes I must remember that my husband is somewhat supportive. Agreeing that the kids can go through RCIA is actually pretty impressive. No I haven’t talked to him about it yet. I’m waiting to find what I like.

Thank you everyone else that has responded to my post. You are giving me great ideas.
 
A good Marian Statue is so hard to find these days. If you go to this page twentyfortyvision.org/ForumPictures.html you will see a lot of pictures and statues of Mary, but none beats the one beneath Mother Angelica’s Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament - in a chapel larger than most Parish Churches. I don’t know where they found the design inspiration for this statue, but it is Our Lady presented in full beauty and liberation, with the twelve stars as her crown. I just love this statue, so if anyone knows where I can get one like this, let me know.

That aside, I beg you as your loved ones enter the RCIA to always remember that Catholicism is not about “devotional” worship of symbols. We are not a Church that places any value in symbols over substance. Many Protestant critics of Catholicism think that we are, as they play with their bread and grape juice. We indeed have the real deal … not the symbol of the Body and Blood of Christ, but the Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ. Remember that when you get to heaven you will find that few human Artists have ever accurately depicted Jesus & Mary, and so don’t put too much emphasis on devotional statues. Use them as reminders for two purposes … 1st, that Jesus and Mary are with you and are witnessing your passing life with complete interest in you and joy in your every breath and heartbeat, and 2nd, that the human mind sometime needs clay reminders to realize this obvious fact. I can not suggest strongly enough that every home have a Crucifix hanging near the entrance of every Catholic house. The Crucifix is a book in and of itself, reminding us all of God’s unconditional and unending love for each one of us. Every sin we commit - and there have been many - is wiped away by His mercy, and when we see the Crucifix, we see damage caused to the Lord - not by Pontius Pilate, not by the Sanhedrein, not by Judas Iscariot … but by us - we the sinners. Who can not look at a Cruxifix, realizing that WE caused this to happen to Him, without rediscovering a great bond of love between ourselves and our Lord?
 
A picture of Christ as The Divine Mercy? This I can’t imagine would be offensive in any way. And there are promises I believe about the veneration of this image, I don’t think you could go wrong with that!

Just a thought. Been on a couple of sites tonight concerning The Divine Mercy so it was fresh on my mind!

God Bless!
 
Agreed … I stated this elsewhere, but there have been a few variations on the Artistic license of what Jesus looked like, and as Saint Faustina did not paint any of these, only she and God knows what He looked like to her.

The most important part of the Divine Mercy picture - and truly Mr. Potatohead could have been used as the model with equal validity - this is not meant to be a true representation of the physical traits of Jesus, then or now) are not the two rays (red and white) but rather the least discussed part of the picture and the discussion … the caption which reads “Jesus, I Trust in YOU!”

That is the ignored facet of why this picture was painted. And how many times … too many … have I seen the picture without the most important part of it - the caption “Jesus, I Trust in YOU!”
 
Jeanette_L said:
A picture of Christ as The Divine Mercy? This I can’t imagine would be offensive in any way. And there are promises I believe about the veneration of this image, I don’t think you could go wrong with that!

Just a thought. Been on a couple of sites tonight concerning The Divine Mercy so it was fresh on my mind!

God Bless!
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The promise, I believe is, that towns and homes where the Divine Mercy image is displayed and venerated will be saved.

Sounds similar to the well-established practice of ‘enthroning’ an image of the Sacred Heart in Catholic homes and similar promises of salvation and blessing attached to this practice.
 
spalady said:
I’ve been looking at several web sites, for Catholic things to put in my home.
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I want to direct you to some of my favoite Catholic websites. First of all, this one. You’ve found it, and it is self explanatory.

twentyfortyvision.org - It’s my own site geared towards getting the missing 20-40 crowd back to Church. I have received a TON of great stuff that I haven’t posted yet there from priests, nuns, and well-intentioned Catholics. Before the crisis of a shortage of U.S. Priests can be solved, the bigger crisis of an evaporation of a whole generation of youth from our Church must be solved.

avemaria.edu - This is the official website of the first Catholic University in the U.S. for 40 years. It helps that the visionary responsible for this expensive effort, Father Joseph Fessio, happens to also be a very good personal friend of our current Holy Father. He also runs Ignatius Press ( ignatiuspress.com/ ).

yenra.net/catholic/prayers/ - a very good list of Catholic Prayers. “The family that prays together stays together,” Mother Theresa often said. So don’t worry about offending your husband. Pray with him, and worry more about offending God.

silk.net/RelEd/index.htm - Resources for Catholic Educators … this site is REALLY REALLY GOOD!

usccb.org/liturgy/girm/index.shtml - This page details the components of the Mass - including those which are due to be changed in the U.S. as we adopt to a Liturgy more in line with the source verbage authorized by the Magisterium … the English Mass is good, but it needs work, and the work is fast forthcoming.

usccb.org/nab/bible/ - the Bible on line. Not only is this the version that includes all of the updates instigated by Pope Pius XII in 1943 to go back to the oldest Greek reliable texts and re-do the work of St. Jerome who crafted the Latin bible from the original Greek material, but it is also the version found at Mass. (somewhere is a link for each day’s readings). I can’t praise this Bible enough. It is also the version used for the Catholic Study Bible - my favorite book.

vatican.va/phome_en.htm - The official website of Pope Benedict XVI - in English. God, I love this man!
 
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