Does Anyone Enjoy Collecting Prayer Cards?

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Hi everyone! Does anyone like to collect prayer cards? If so, what are your favorite prayer cards? My favorite is St. Padre Pio with a piece of a third class relic.(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
My mom told me long ago that in her neighborhood it was common for people to be laid out in their own homes rather than at a funeral parlor.
She said when she was young she and her friends would visit the homes of the deceased, going from one to another, expressly to collect the prayer cards. It was sort of a fun thing to do.
 
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I have some old prayer cards that belonged to my aunt and lots of the cards from funeral homes. Usually Jesus or Mary, or the Holy Family are on the front and a prayer and the deceased’s name and dates on the back. I have them for many family members, including ones that died before I was even born. Perhaps I can post a favorite tomorrow.
 
I save the prayer cards from funeral I go to.
I also pick up prayer cards (not funeral) if they have them at church.
I use them for bookmarks
 
Yes, I’ve got a big stack of prayer cards and holy cards. I also use them as bookmarks. Here are a few with our most recent popes.

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I enjoy collecting all things catholic missal statues crosses crucifixes bibles prayer cards rosaries medals icons catcheisms you name it I probably have it
 
Yes, unfortunately I like holy cards and have way, way, way, way, way, way too many of them. Some of them I have gotten for free from church, some of them I have bought over the years from religious gift shops.

I have found that nowadays people often take old holy cards and leave them in a church or a shrine, partly to get rid of them and partly in hopes people will say the prayer. When I find an old prayer card for someone who died long ago, I take it and do an indulgence for the person. I also research the person to see if they have an obituary or Ancestry records online so I know who I am praying for. I have a whole box of funeral cards from my Catholic grandfather-in-law that I got in my in-laws’ house cleanout, and some for my husband as well, and I’m thinking of leaving a few of those off in churches where others might pray for them.

I will post pictures of my favorites when I get back to the location where they are. My current favorite is a laminated St. Therese of Lisieux card that I think she made me find, as a little hello and message. I was having a terrible anxiety attack on a day when I needed to fly to a different continent on pilgrimage last year and I was so worried about going on a trip without my husband at home to look after things because he died. I went to Mass that morning and there was this really nice laminated St. Therese card just laying in the parking lot. I am sure some parishioner dropped it by mistake but I felt like St. Therese was saying Hello and telling me everything would be OK, and it was. I keep that card with my passport now.
 
I enjoy collecting them (most somehow found their way into my possesion). I gathered so many over the years I don’t have the slightest idea how many I have…

Off course, those I actually used and sought have a personal significance. But I appreciate everyone of them.
 
on_the_hill said:
My mom told me long ago that in her neighborhood it was common for people to be laid out in their own homes rather than at a funeral parlor.
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And “wake” was quite literal–premature burial was common enough that it was necessary. They were really a matter of seeking. if the person would wake back up!
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Yes, unfortunately I like holy cards and have way, way, way, way, way, way too many of them.
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I get annoyed by the folks who manage to hand them to every unsuspecting person in a line: now I have a blessed object to properly care for or properly dispose of.
 
They are easy enough to leave off in a church. Just make sure the church is one that is friendly to holy cards. Most are, a few more traditional places don’t want you leaving anything without clearing it with the pastor.

The same can’t be said of the large crucifix I found in a pew a year ago. It was of the type that is placed on people’s caskets when they die and then given to the immediate family of the deceased. Obviously someone’s family did not want relative’s casket crucifix, and left it in a pew. I could donate it I suppose but I felt so bad about that I took it home and hung it up, even though I have three casket crucifixes from my actual immediate family already.
 
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