Home Shrines

@Galena (9110)
July 21, 2011 5:47pm CST
does anyone else have a shrine in their home? who is it to, and what do you do to decorate it and make it special? I have a shrine to Papa Legba in my kitchen, and it completely changes the mood as you walk into my home. it reminds me to mark my honour to the Lwa, in an area I pass often.
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Rick1950
@Rick1950 (1575)
• Lima, Peru
23 Jul 11
We've an image of Jesus in the living room, infront of which we pray. Sometimes we receive from the parish, a Virgen who stay for a week in the house and then she is taken to another one in the neighborhood.
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Galena
@Galena (9110)
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25 Jul 11
is this a figure rather than a person? where does the tradition of the touring virgin come from? it sounds like a nice way of keeping something going in a community
Rick1950
@Rick1950 (1575)
• Lima, Peru
25 Jul 11
The Jesus image is a color print blessed in the church by parish's priest. The touring virgin is a tradition born from the church to improve devotion among the faithful. :)
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John Murphree
@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
2 Mar 19
Lima,,,never been there, wish to go someday. Once in the Atlanta Airport, I passed the desk for the Lima flight, and saod how much I would like to go there.
celticeagle
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jul 11
I have a shrine of past relatives. My mom and grandmother mostly. Pictures of them in their youth, objects they had, such as that. I don't really call it that but I guess that is what it is. They meant so much to my daughter and I and we think of them every day. When people come into our home we share them with them through their pictures and stories. Memory is so important.
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Galena
@Galena (9110)
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22 Jul 11
that's lovely. if I find a good and appropriate space for it, I would like to set up an ancestor shrine of my own.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Jul 11
It is truly lovely. And each time I walk past it I can feel the energy from them flowing around me.
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John Murphree
@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
2 Mar 19
This seems like a lovely situation to me.
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phoenix35
@phoenix35 (384)
• Philippines
7 Nov 11
I guess it has been a tradition to keep a shrine in our home. It's not that we are worshiping images but just a reminder that God is closer. I would really want one outside the garden - a grotto. Now that will be really handsome, don't you think? But, first ... a garden :)
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John Murphree
@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
2 Mar 19
We have no shrines in our home, but it seems a good ide to me, for remembrance.