Thanks for the advice. I’ll check out ebay…I bought a San Damiano Crucifix from my parish gift shop for $20. If you look on eBay you can probably find a good deal. Don’t you just love the San Damiano Crucifix?
Alaha minokhoun
Andrew
I love your icon corner! It gives off such an air of completeness! :yup:
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You are Polish Orthodox? How wonderful!!That’s interesting, I didn’t knew that the Old believers did that.
However, alot of time has passed since the persecution and today most of the “popovsty” Old believers returned to Full communion with the Moscow patriarchate.
For you Romans; Pop means a married priest in Slavonic slang.
The Old believers had 2 fractions, the Popovtsy and the bez popovsty.
Popovsty: translated as “the ones with the priests”
Bez popovsty: translated as “the ones without priests”
The Popovsty are to be compared to the FSSPX.
The Bez popovsty are to be compared to sedevacantists.
The divisions grew out of disputes whether the post Nikon ordination Rites are valid.
No, haven’t ordered any new yet; been saying prayers instead.
Yes, I fall into that trap of seeing the icon corner as a “collection” to which I feel the need to add and then rearrange the set . . .
Yes I am, people usually give me stares and are like “oh, you guys exist, too?” And I’m like “Yeah, St. Cyrill and Method were there too, you know” Hahah, always funYou are Polish Orthodox? How wonderful!!
Your Church has glorified the Martyrs of Kholm (Khelm) and Podlasie, no?
I have icons of the Old Believer Saints Protopop Avvakum, St Ambrosij of Belakrinitsa, Sts Constantine and Arcadius and two other Belakrinitsa Saints. I have them there to remind me that there are people who are more adamant about their Sign of the Cross than I am about mine!
Alex
Growing up Roman Catholic, especially in the Philippines, shrines inside homes is the norm. Especially from my parents’ generation. There would be one in the living room, a small one in every bedroom, and in other places. Usually its a statue of the Sto. Nino (child Jesus) which was essential in the Christianizing of the Philippines. The Redemptorists also brought the Byzantine icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help which is the most revered icon in the Philippines (and most people probably has no clue that its actually Byzantine in origin). My mom is a devotee of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help and would to the best of her abilities go to the National Shrine every Wednesday. My dad grew up in a town in suburban Manila (Tondo) which is one of the three main churches in the country dedicated to the Sto. Nino.I don’t have a picture to share, but my revamped study has three longer shelves and my icons simply lean against the wall on these.
I got the idea from the Old Believers who always placed their icons in corners on shelves - that way when the Russian Tsarist police were coming to arrest them (as their practices, such as the two-fingered Sign of the Cross, were banned by the State), they could just scoop up their icons and flee . . .
Haven’t had occasion to do this with mine just yet, although I am getting some opposition from my wife . . .
The nice thing about an icon corner that is “flexible” is that one could always add an icon here and there. I’ve inherited icons from deceased relatives and these are very important to me. Also, icons of new saints and icons received as presents for “rites de passage.”
I wonder if our Latin Catholic friends like to set up shrines of their own in their homes (I’ve seen some of these myself). If so, how do you organize such shrines and where do you have them - in a separate prayer room (my aunt was RC, and this is what she did)?
Please share!
Alex