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The Crown of Thorns is from Jerusalem and certified and sanctified in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Thanks you for your favorable comments. God Bless

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The Crown of Thorns is from Jerusalem and certified and sanctified in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Thanks you for your favorable comments. God Bless

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Wow that’s cool! 😃 I think my fiancée would appreciate something like that. She has a lovely icon corner (which is kinda turning into an icon wall) but would definitely appreciate having some decidedly Western things to venerate, too.
 
cameron_lansing said:
Setting up an informal type of chapel like the ones described is a praiseworthy thing to do. Just a clarification or two.

Actually a separate and special permission would be required to establish a place as an oratory. That permission is given by an ordinary — for example, the diocesan bishop or a competent religious superior (cc 1223-1225).

A private chapel is a place designated for divine worship for one or several physical persons with the permission of the local ordinary — i.e., a diocesan bishop or vicar general (c 1226). But a chapel could be an informal one at the initiative of and the use of the family without obtaining that designation.

However, the permission of the local ordinary is required for Mass and other sacred celebrations to take place there (c. 1228). A bishop can have the Eucharist reserved in his chapel (c. 1227).

It is fitting that oratories and private chapels be blessed according to the rite prescribed in the liturgical books (c. 1229).

A home chapel is not required to be blessed, but if so, becomes a sacred space. If so, it must, however, be reserved only for divine worship and be free from all domestic uses (c. 1229). (Though an occasional non religious use is possible.)
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John, thanks for the info! 👍

Everyone. Great works on your chapels.!

AndyF
 
I don’t have a chapel but my parents have one (not attached to their house but on their property). It’s used mainly for monthly Masses (they live in a fairly remote area where not everyone can get to church) and the occasional but very infrequent lay-led liturgy.
 
I think it is a great idea. I don’t have room.

I would love to see a picture.

To those of you that put up pictures of your chapels all I get is a red X…no pic. 🤷
 
kleary said:
Actually you can have a priest come and say Holy Mass in your home and in any specific room you choose. A friend of my family, Fr. Anthony who was head of a religious order at that time at a monastery a few miles from our home came and said Mass in our home and my brother and I were serving the Mass.

I guess this is a modern innovation after Vatican II, I have not done research either way so maybe comeone else can enlighten us here, on Mass being celebrated in a home.

I do know however that if you do make a home chapel to pray in that you would be forbidden to reserve the Blessed Sacrament there no matter what.

Ken
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Not true. I know a retired priest who has a chapel where he reserves the Blessed Sacrament with the express and written permission of our local bishop.
 
Dear Trident59,

Your Chapel area sounds a great deal like mine, in some respects. I live in a small one bedroom apartment and there is no extra room, but as it happens, one of the botton kitchen cabinets was pulled out of the kitchen so that a wheelchair could have access to the counter there (No, I am not in a wheelchair, but the apartment is wheelchair accessible) and the extra cabinet sits in the tiny dining area and it is just the right size for a small Altar!

I have a Crucifix from Medjugorje that is about 18 inches tall. I have two Sanctuary candle holders with the large candles that burn in them. One is red for the Sacred Heart and one is Blue for the Blessed Virgin Mary. I also have two altar candles that my cousin picked up in Mexico with beeswax candles in them. I have a Statue of the risen Christ that is supposed to be below the Crucifix and between the Sanctuary candle holders. On this area I also have a small statue of the BVM where she is kneeling in front of the baby Jesus. Two other small statues are of St. Francis and St. Therese of the child Jesus.

As I mentioned in another post, I have a kneeler where I can kneel to pray in front of my “Altar”. My knees seem to be aging along with the rest of me and the kneeler is a luxury that I saved for as it really enhances my personal “Sacred Space.” I just push it up right against the counter when I am not using it so that I don’t have an obstacle in the walk way. And finally, I have two outside (cement) “yard statues,” one of St. Francis and one of the Blessed Virgin. They come in just gray from the cement, but a friend of mine painted them the way they should be painted and for a very small price I now have two very beautiful statues that others have commented on. I live in the South where Catholics are only 1% but they know when they walk into my apartment that a Catholic lives here! 🙂 In fact, when the owner did a walk through inspection while I was gone to California visiting my folks, she made the comment to the manager that I was either a nun or would be shortly. These things speak of our faith, and such a beautiful and rich Faith it is!

DesertSister62
 
Home Altars are essential as the Faith of the family should be displayed in the home. The maxim “The family that prays together stays together” gives us a very good reason to dedicate a prominant place of worship in the home.

To decorate the houses with religious pictures is a custom as old as Christianity itself, for the true Christian has always considered his home as nothing less than a Temple of God, and the religious pictures as means to extend and preserve the spirit of Christianity in the home. In the living room the place of honour should be the crucifix.

“The home must be in accord with the Church, that all harmful influences be withheld from the souls of the children. Where there is true piety in the home, purity of morals reigns supreme. There is a crying need for a renewal of the Christian spirit in the home.” St. John Vianney

Making a Home Altar

One need not spend a bomb on the home altar. Try looking at second hand shops, garage sales & antique shops for old tables, dressers or trunks- making sure there is somewhere to store extra things like matches, candles, et cetera.

It may also be handy to buy inexpensive but, good quality linens for private Holy Masses.

Here are some items you may want to include on your altar: prayer books, candles & holders, snuffers, flower vases, beautiful containers for rosaries & one for intentions, censer & incense, Holy water fonts, kneelers, Holy Bible & stand, crucifixes, icons, images or statues of our Lord & Lady.

“Of course, religious pictures themselves will not make a family good. Only when they are contemplated upon, are they a practical help to true Christian sentiment, and to a true Christian
way of living in the family.” St. John Vianney.

With the help of the Lord’s grace and your own creative ideas, you’ll be able to build a beautiful home altar. Your home will become a church in miniture. God will add the extra grace.
 
i have a small bedroom shrine
consisting of two short bookcases pushed together with a cloth over it all i use a large book as a dais (covered)to elevate my bible and cross along with some little peace cranes to the left i have a black oil burner with a dragon on it but in stead of oil there is holy water in the top i have two votive candles on the area below the dais next to the cross. in front of the cross have my grandmothers king james bible ( i wont touch any other bible) to the right i have an open space with an incense stick burner and some palm crosses where i need some holy statues
 
Dear RosaryKindaGuy,

If you won’t touch any Bible but the King James, You are missing several books that are only found in Catholic Bibles. The Roman Catholic Council of Trent declared in 1546 that the Deuterocanonical books were indeed divine.

These books are:

Tobit,
Judith,
1st and 2nd Maccabees,
Wisdom,
Sirach,
Baruch

DesertSister62
 
then i’ll have to pick up a copy my thing with the king james was that it is " the original" bible from what i heard. does the rest sound the same other than the extra books?
 
Hi RosaryKindaGuy,

I hate to tell you this as I know it will come as a shock, but the original manuscript that the Bible came from exists as very small pieces that have been painstakingly worked with to put it together. See the reference below: (Its excellent!)

gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/translations.html

(SEP-too-a-jint) was a Greek translation written about three centuries before the birth of Christ. Two other early translations, composed after the birth of Christ, were the Peshitta in Syriac and the Vulgate in Latin. These three translations, the Septuagint, Peshitta, and Vulgate became the official translations of the Old Testament for the Greek-, Syriac-, and Latin-speaking churches respectively. Each also became the basis for other translations of the Bible.

There were many translations of the Bible before the King James Version! For instance the Latin Bible, or ‘Vulgate’ as translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic by Jerome between 382 and 405 CE, etc. That was way before the Authorized King James in 1611.

So see, you have barely gotten your feet wet when it comes to the earliest Bibles! You have a wonderful adventure ahead of you!

DesertSister62
 
RosaryKindaGuy said:
then i’ll have to pick up a copy my thing with the king james was that it is " the original" bible from what i heard. does the rest sound the same other than the extra books?
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LOL!!! :rotfl:

The King James Bible was made in 1611 by Anglican Protestants…about 1,600 years since the original Bible was written! I really doubt Jesus spoke English, so the King James version obviously can’t be the original. 😛

The King James version is more poetic in nature (meaning…they changed things up a bit to make it sound better for English society as well as removing some of the original books).
A primary concern of the translators was to produce a Bible that would be appropriate, dignified and resonant in public reading. Hence, in a period of rapid linguistic change, they avoided contemporary idioms; tending instead towards forms that were already slightly archaic, like verily and it came to pass. They also tended to enliven their text with stylistic variation, finding multiple English words or verbal forms, in places where the original language employed repetition.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version#Literary_attributes
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Also, King James I of England, who the King James Bible is dedicated to oppressed English Catholics…a little strange to have a Bible named after a king, eh?

I’d also not prefer a translation written by those who beheaded us rosary kinda guys, like St. Thomas More. :knight2:

If you want something close to the original, get the Vulgate - made in the 5th century largely through the efforts of St. Jerome. 😃

 
wow i really must have been blind thanks for all your reccomendations and no i knew jesus did not speak english. but yes I do know it was written by a protestant king who painstakingly tried to translate it. but i did not know he beheaded catholics wow the british are violent
 
RosaryKindaGuy said:
wow i really must have been blind thanks for all your reccomendations and no i knew jesus did not speak english. but yes I do know it was written by a protestant king who painstakingly tried to translate it. but i did not know he beheaded catholics wow the british are violent
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Of course I know you knew Jesus didn’t speak English…I was being funny. heheh. :D:D

But yeah, the English royalty were anti-Catholic and to this day, there are still laws banning British monarchs from marrying Roman Catholics.
 
I don’t think it’s odd, I think it’s beautiful. And besides, didn’t some rich estates in the past centuries have chapels? I don’t have one, but I would love to. More importantly, it would be even nicer to have a husband that would want to build one!
 
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