Does anyone have a 'home altar' or a special image or statue in their home they'd like to show us?
I am working on finding some small statuary for the shrine I want to put in my home office, but I cannot afford anything right now, as I have been unemployed.
Show us your home altar, your shrine to a beloved saint or to Our Lady.
Anyone with pictures of large, old-school Crucifixes on their walls are welcome to share them as well.
On a side note: is anyone on the Forum a fan of sacred art in the Spanish/realist style? I cannot, to be honest, stomach most of what passes for sacred art that's for sale these days... the cheap, Chinese-made polyresin figures and the ugly, modernist things that are supposed to be Crucifixes. I am very much moved by the often startling and even scary realism of the old statues and Crucifixes, both from centuries ago and from the revival periods in more recent history. There is a chapel not too far from me (unfortunately, it's diocesan and run by ICK and uses a Modernist Latin missal) that has some gorgeous statuary. I don't know if it's legitimately old, or just made to look that way, but there is a VERY large Crucifix (at least three feet tall) with a very strikingly lifelike image of the suffering Christ on it. Very moving.
I'd love to see what you own and use at home and/or have your thoughts on how sacred art such as paintings or statues can encourage or discourage piety.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.