Statues and crucifixes

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I am wondering do others have many statues in their homes and do you have crucifixes in every room? My parents always did and I do now but I was recently questioned about it by another Catholic and it made me wonder.
 
I’m not sure why someone would “question” this. I find that odd. And rude.

Why do you care what someone else thinks?
 
It made you wonder what? 🙂 If it’s usual? I’ll assume that’s what you are saying. :tiphat:

It is in our house. We have statues, crucifixes and sacred pictures throughout our house. I’m a convert, so we bought most of them when I was in the first thrall of being Catholic. Still, I love having them around us. It’s like being surrounded by family because as Christians we are all one family, after all. And they are constant reminders that this world is not our home–that we have an eternal home waiting for us. Having that big picture helps when confronted with the daily annoyances of life and especially when problems, that seem overwhelming come along. It helps us “keep our eyes on the prize.”
 
1ke said:
I’m not sure why someone would “question” this. I find that odd. And rude.

Why do you care what someone else thinks?
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You’re right. I shouldn’t care what others think. I think I was looking to see if this is something that is still common in a Catholic home and sometimes I am not great at giving my reasons for the why’s of the Catholic faith as I am a revert from a long time gone and still doing a lot of learning so I guess others sharing what they do and why helps.
 
We have a crucifix in every bedroom. We have The Last Supper painting in the dining room. We have many religious articles in our home throughout.
 
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It made you wonder what? 🙂 If it’s usual? I’ll assume that’s what you are saying. :tiphat:

It is in our house. We have statues, crucifixes and sacred pictures throughout our house. I’m a convert, so we bought most of them when I was in the first thrall of being Catholic. Still, I love having them around us. It’s like being surrounded by family because as Christians we are all one family, after all. And they are constant reminders that this world is not our home–that we have an eternal home waiting for us. Having that big picture helps when confronted with the daily annoyances of life and especially when problems, that seem overwhelming come along. It helps us “keep our eyes on the prize.”
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I like that, especially the part of being one family and keeping our eyes on the prize
 
Well said, Della. 👍

We do have a crucifix in each of the main rooms of our house, and I’m working on finding one for each bedroom, as well. We also have several saint pictures and statues, a wall rosary and several small rosaries available for use, a small Madonna-and-Child holy water font near the door (that I always forget to refill 😊 ), and a plaque over the front door marked with blessed chalk. We also keep a few Bibles and lots of Catholic books and CDs easily accessible on the bookshelf in our living room.

We don’t worry about what others think, but at the same time, anyone who comes to visit would have a hard time NOT knowing we’re Catholic if they don’t already know. 🤷

I find it rather unusual when Catholic families don’t have any crosses, crucifixes, or pictures of saints where they can be seen easily… but I generally don’t ask about it, either. It’s really none of my business if a family does or doesn’t use those kinds of visual reminders in their home; after all, it’s not a requirement of the Church either way. 😉
 
In our small living area, (we share a house with my sister) the wife and I have statues of Mary, Infant of Prague, Our Lady of Fatima, St. Philomena and St. Jude. There is also a home Shrine. Plus seven crucifixes. One for each child that we raised.
 
I was raised that there should be a crucifix in each bedroom which my home has. We also have statues of other saints Jude, Patrick, Anne, Joseph and of course Mary. We also have many pictures. We were given for Christmas by friends a three D picture that is inspiring. It Is of Jesus as Shepherd, the Last Supper and Jesus crucified. You see them change as you move.
 
We have a crucifix in the bedrooms, plus most of the other rooms in the house, a few religious paintings, some statues, and a few icons (my wife comes from an EO background, although she is being received into the Church this Easter, Deo gratias). We also have a couple holy water fonts, in the bedrooms and by the front door.

Is it “normal”, as in “do most Catholics in America do it?” Well, I’d say yes for “on-fire” Catholics, but maybe not for Catholics overall. Either way it is a good practice! Ask your friend why (s)he doesn’t have our Lord before him/her in each room. 👍
 
We have a large crucifix on the main wall in the living room, Stations of the Cross around the walls in the dining room, crucifixes in every bedroom, and, in my bedroom, I have a statue of St. Joesph and the Child Jesus, and many many pictures of the saints and Mary hanging on my wall. In my bedroom we also have a small Holy Water holder that I hung next to the doorway and a blessed bottle of Holy Water on the nightstand. I think it is wonderful to have religious symbols all over the house!
 
Magdalena59 said:
I am wondering do others have many statues in their homes and do you have crucifixes in every room? My parents always did and I do now but I was recently questioned about it by another Catholic and it made me wonder.
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I have a crucifix in every room, a home altar in my bedroom with various statues, a picture of The Angelus & The Last Supper in my dining room & Holy Water fonts at the entrance to every door in the house.
 
I have religious statues, crucifixes, and/or paintings in every room I regularly use in the home.
 
oh yeah. Everywhere.
Crucifixes, statues of every size, a huge angel at the front door, home altar in the bedroom.
This is common in Hispanic culture as well.
My children used to joke that you couldn’t look anywhere in our house without a Saint or the Virgin looking at you. I find it very comforting. When I was a child, mama had lots of dolls in my room. I couldn’t stand them looking at me…but the picture of Our Lady of Grace??? Que bueno. 👍
 
Growing up there was one small crucifix tucked away on a wall in our house. After a time in the Evangelical Church, after coming home, I could not figure out why people had statues etc and was determined not to go down that road. 13 years later my house has 3 Divine Mercy pictures, two Sacred Hearts of Jesus, 5 crucifix’s, one Virgin Mary and one good Sheppard statue and a little font of holy water by the front door. And at Christmas, there are nativity scenes everywhere.

For me, each one is a different and small aspect of Jesus offering a focus for prayer and meditation or contemplation. To be honest, without them I doubt I would have quite so many conversations with God. At different times, I was drawn to them probably because they remind me of my one true love.
 
I love the Crucifix. In my personal prayer life I have found paying the sorrowful mysteries or other payed of contemplation or meditation in sight of a Crucifix has been the focus of several times of strong spiritual experiences of a mystical nature.

In the case of my wife: she used to be scared of the Crucifix and didn’t want one in the house. She was fine with a Cross. That changed after she was granted an experience at a big conference in Walsingham ( England’s Shine to Our Lady) .

She went up to be payed over for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and feel to the floor"resting in the Spirit"
When she opened her eyes she was lying directly below the huge crucifix that was suspended from the roof of the marquee over the part of the podium where the movable Altar is placed for daily Mass during the Conference.

Since that experience she now loves the crucifix and we purchased one for our living room before we went home from that conference and now have one in most rooms.

We are also members of a lay community who’s rules require us to have at least one crucifix in the home.
 
I have a few images, whether it be pictures, crucifix, or statues in each room. I am so used to them that it seems to me that we don’t have a lot but visitors coming to our home, usually friends of our children, have sometimes remarked to our kids that “your house is so holy” and they feel like they have to be on their best behavior like they are in church. I do think that it is not good to have too much especially duplicates of the same subject and to avoid getting caught up in collections rather than devotion. And I do have to check myself on this occasionally. My hobby is statue repair so sometimes I have to find other homes for my statues.
 
I have a crucifix in each room. I was given some of them as gifts from Catholic relatives.

I also have holy pictures in some rooms, too. You can definitely tell that this is a Catholic household, too. 🙂
 
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