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Finally adding my little prayer table. It’s in the living room, right in the middle of the wall in the center of our family’s room to relax. It holds a crucifix made of Bethlehem stone (not sure exactly what that is but it looks like marble), a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, a St Joseph bible, a Sacred Heart candle, a bottle of holy water, a cross made of blessed palms, and two holy cards. The rosary is made from olive wood beads from the Holy Land, and it has a third class Padre Pio relic as the medal, and the St Thérèse card has a third class relic on the back. The colorful little egg is actually a small jar that I put the names of people in that I want to pray for. I collect the names during the week and on Friday I take them out and dedicate my daily rosary to them.
 
Forgot to add that the dried rose that’s in front of Our Lady is a rose I received from St Thérèse when I asked her to send me a flower if my baby, who was suspected to have Trisomy 18, was healthy and normal.
 
Snugglebugmom said:
Forgot to add that the dried rose that’s in front of Our Lady is a rose I received from St Thérèse when I asked her to send me a flower if my baby, who was suspected to have Trisomy 18, was healthy and normal.
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That’s Beautiful!!! :o
 
Just wanted to comment on how beautiful all these shrines are! I am trying to make our back room a prayer room. I have a cabinet that I have placed statues, candles and the bible on. Want to put up pictures as well. We are also going to remodel that room and put up paneling and new carpet this summer. I really enjoy seeing all these pictures, as it gives me inspiration for our room! 😃

Peace! :gorpray:
 
Hi, I’m brand new here and I was hoping for some information on prayer or votive candles and this thread seems to be best one I could find to bring up the question. It’s my understanding that when you light a candle during prayer, the flame represents the intention of the prayer (please correct me if I’m wrong). My question has to do with lighting a candle at home. How long do you let the candles burn? Is it okay to blow them out after you’re done praying? Is it an acceptable practice to light a candle at your home alter, pray the Rosary and then put the candle out, etc.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

AJ
 
It is OK to blow them out. It’s really up to what suits you, since there are no “rules” concerning this.
 
AJB328 said:
Hi, I’m brand new here and I was hoping for some information on prayer or votive candles and this thread seems to be best one I could find to bring up the question. It’s my understanding that when you light a candle during prayer, the flame represents the intention of the prayer (please correct me if I’m wrong). My question has to do with lighting a candle at home. How long do you let the candles burn? Is it okay to blow them out after you’re done praying? Is it an acceptable practice to light a candle at your home alter, pray the Rosary and then put the candle out, etc.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

AJ
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How long do you let the candles burn? Is it okay to blow them out after you’re done praying? Let the candles burn as long as you want, for as long as you need. Yes, it’s alright to blow them out.

How long do you let the candles burn? I let them burn as long as I need them to.

Is it an acceptable practice to light a candle at your home altar, pray the Rosary and then put the candle out, etc.? Yes, it’s alright. There aren’t any limitations, as long as what you’re doing is Catholic 🙂
 
AJB328 said:
Hi, I’m brand new here and I was hoping for some information on prayer or votive candles and this thread seems to be best one I could find to bring up the question. It’s my understanding that when you light a candle during prayer, the flame represents the intention of the prayer (please correct me if I’m wrong). My question has to do with lighting a candle at home. How long do you let the candles burn? Is it okay to blow them out after you’re done praying? Is it an acceptable practice to light a candle at your home alter, pray the Rosary and then put the candle out, etc.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

AJ
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Generally yes its fine to extinguish them… A lot of Italians (and possibly Mexicans) will tell you that its wrong to not allow them to burn themselves out, but I just think thats superstition, btw im Italian and I always extinguish mine (saint or otherwise).
Also try snuffing them insted of blowing them out, nothing offical just more respectful as i see it.
 
Thanks for the info. When I think of burning candles I always think of an Italian friend I had growing up whose grandmother kept a candle burning in the house 24/7 and that’s why it was ingrained in my head that they shouldn’t be extinguished.

AJ
 
I love it that this thread is being kept alive! It has way too many gorgeous pictures and way too much inspiration to let it fade into oblivion. Perhaps it should be a sticky? Or there could be a social group dedicated to home altars. Hmm… point to ponder!
 
My father’s side of the family was Italian, and they never let candles burn unattended. Make sure you put any candles that you are planning to use unattended in a safe place, on a non combustible surface, and out of the reach of children and pets, away from walls or billowing curtains. Otherwise, you had better start making a novena to St. Florian (the patron saint of firefighters!)

My home altar is a purchased glass wall shelf, on which I keep an Infant of Prague. Being native American on Mom’s side, after my nation gifted me with three eagle feathers for artistic accomplishments, I hung those from the bottom of a large crucifix which hangs in my dining room, along with three large burgundy glass beads. My priest came over for dinner awhile ago, and stated that it reminded him of the drop portion of a rosary. He really liked the effect.

I have several saints’ statues that I inherited from Grandma when she passed on. All of the “kids” in my generation had a session, where we took turns picking out our favorite saints. I got an Our Lady of Grace as well as St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Florian, and St. Catherine of Siena that way, as well as a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That picture is in my living room. Our Lady, Ignatius, Florian, and Catherine are in various places around the house. Grandma had a collection of nearly forty statues, as well as many other religious items, most of which she had acquired during the course of three pilgrimages to Rome and one to the Holy Land. Every time she came back, a few days later there would be a huge packing crate delivered with the items in it.

For now, anyways, I think my collection is enough. I live in a small house with a Lutheran husband, who, bless his heart, hasn’t rebelled at the idea of all of the religious artwork.

I do, however, want to make some vestments in liturgically appropriate colors for the Infant of Prague statue, and went so far as to download instructions and buy some of the fabric involved. Unfortunately, the weekend before I was going to start this project our main waterline broke, ruining our floors. A couple of rooms are gutted right now because of the amount of damage that was done. I’m dragging around construction supplies and tools. The vestments will have to wait until the house is reasonably in order.
 
odile53 said:
My father’s side of the family was Italian, and they never let candles burn unattended. Make sure you put any candles that you are planning to use unattended in a safe place, on a non combustible surface, and out of the reach of children and pets, away from walls or billowing curtains. Otherwise, you had better start making a novena to St. Florian (the patron saint of firefighters!)

My home altar is a purchased glass wall shelf, on which I keep an Infant of Prague. Being native American on Mom’s side, after my nation gifted me with three eagle feathers for artistic accomplishments, I hung those from the bottom of a large crucifix which hangs in my dining room, along with three large burgundy glass beads. My priest came over for dinner awhile ago, and stated that it reminded him of the drop portion of a rosary. He really liked the effect.

I have several saints’ statues that I inherited from Grandma when she passed on. All of the “kids” in my generation had a session, where we took turns picking out our favorite saints. I got an Our Lady of Grace as well as St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Florian, and St. Catherine of Siena that way, as well as a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That picture is in my living room. Our Lady, Ignatius, Florian, and Catherine are in various places around the house. Grandma had a collection of nearly forty statues, as well as many other religious items, most of which she had acquired during the course of three pilgrimages to Rome and one to the Holy Land. Every time she came back, a few days later there would be a huge packing crate delivered with the items in it.

For now, anyways, I think my collection is enough. I live in a small house with a Lutheran husband, who, bless his heart, hasn’t rebelled at the idea of all of the religious artwork.

I do, however, want to make some vestments in liturgically appropriate colors for the Infant of Prague statue, and went so far as to download instructions and buy some of the fabric involved. Unfortunately, the weekend before I was going to start this project our main waterline broke, ruining our floors. A couple of rooms are gutted right now because of the amount of damage that was done. I’m dragging around construction supplies and tools. The vestments will have to wait until the house is reasonably in order.
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I have an infant of prague as well… I inherited it from my great-grandmother anyone with all the vestments that ahe handmade for him, its a beautiful devotion, changing the infants clothes as well as making them- good luck and God bless
 
Well I finally finished my travel shrine! 😃 Tell me what you all think

The outside:


The inside:
 
That is awesome!!! 👍

Did you do the woodburning yourself? I could never be that good at doing that! 😊

Peace! :gopray:
 
dchris said:
That is awesome!!! 👍

Did you do the woodburning yourself? I could never be that good at doing that! 😊

Peace! :gopray:
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I wish i was too! :rolleyes: truth be told it was my mom who did the wood work- but the inside was me 😛 lol
 
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