Pictures of Rome's Altars of Repose, from The Catholic Traveler blog

[Tis_Bearself]

The Catholic Traveler has shared some pictures of Rome’s very decorated Altars of Repose, from previous years obviously since no one can go out to visit Jesus in Rome this year.

Holy Thursday in Rome

Holy Thursday is the best night in Rome. Many churches stay open until midnight so the faithful can visit their Altars of Repose. Here are some of my favorites…

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[humbleseeker]

I’d pick San Giovanni Battista as my favorite. My wife and I honeymooned in Rome. This was before I became Catholic. We would always stop into a Church that we encountered during our sightseeing. I’m a sucker for Churches and cemeteries, I will always tour them when visiting a new place. I’m sure I must have walked inside some of these. Looking at these pictures I can close my eyes and smell the cool air and remember how those Churches had a palpable “feeling” to them. Like a light fabric touching your skin.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I have been twice. I’m wanting to go back when all this is over.

I have seen many wonderful churches there, the Redemptorist church with Our Mother of Perpetual Help being a personal favorite of mine since my mother had a great devotion to Our Lady under that title and had a copy of that picture over the sink for decades.

I have been having a memory of a little shrine to Our Lady in the grounds of some hospital that I ended up in by accident when trying to get to San Stefano Rotondo. The road was closed and I tried to take a pedestrian shortcut through the hospital grounds, but I couldn’t get out, so the little shrine was a nice little find and made me feel better since I could not physically get over to the church before it closed, although I could see it looming about a half block away. I was thinking how Mary seems to pop up everywhere in Rome. And many other places. I wonder how that hospital is doing.