Because it's important to maintain the collective memory.
In our book, The Little Oratory: A Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home, David Clayton, Deirdre, and I encourage you to make your own Little Oratory — your very own! (You can read my posts about the chapters (a work in progress, going over them) here.)
You will find a full explanation of this link-up on this post, as well as the code for the button of your choice, which you can add to your post. We look forward to seeing your little prayer place in your home!
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Thank you! Looking forward to seeing others’ ideas and personalities in their oratories! (P.S. I couldn’t get the button codes to work as they were written so I just saved the image and linked it myself :)
I posted on instagram #littleoratory, but can’t figure out how to link from there. I don’t have a blog. :-)
Patty, click on the “Add your link” and look on the bottom left. See the instagram icon? Use that!
I think I figured it out. I need to think about starting a blog so I can more easily participate in these linkups, yarn alongs, etc. :-)
Only wanting to subscribe to follow up comments, don’t mind me…
I love visiting all of these blogs ~ but I often can’t leave a comment because I’m required to sign in to this or that account. Nevertheless it is sooooo fun to have a wee peek (or as they say here in Scotland, “A wee nosey…”) at the many awesome ways that families have set up their little oratories. :-)
I love the pictures! I have been indecisive about where and how to do the one in our home. Seeing others really helps, thank you!!
I just added, but I am rusty at any posting of my own doing. I hope it worked! Love seeing these!
I would love to comment on individual posts, but I do not blog, and do not have any of the sign in profiles needed to comment
If anyone has any suggestions on where to purchase smallish icons – like the archangels in linkup #8 – a handful a heartful – I would love to know
we all changed bedrooms this year and I am planning to make the boys each a mini oratory in their new rooms, they already have items from First Communion, plus to expand our advent table to be a year round oratory.
I only have online options for shopping for religious items where I live
Thanks so much
Shwell, yes, finding the art is the challenge!
Elizabeth Foss posted some helpful links on the podcast we did on Chapter 3. http://www.elizabethfoss.com/reallearning/2014/06/lets-chat-about-chapter-three.html
including to David Clayton’s artwork.
Finding those little icons might be hard. One thing I have done is frame little postcards, prayer cards, or Christmas cards — often they are printed very nicely and once framed, look great.
Maybe our readers can contribute their resources… I will try to remember to ask!
Thank you for the links :)
and in return I want to share a link, as you mentioned having trouble finding small round frames
http://www.marthastewart.com/268602/belt-buckle-frame-how-to
I was going through some pages I had “pinned” the old fashioned way – aka ripped out of various magazines when I saw this.
I also think that ladies purses might yield two matching rings
seeing as you like thrifting, thought you might like this idea
Merry Christmas
Ok I have a very basic question. Growing up our family prayer consisted of saying a blessing before dinner, so I just don’t have a feel for it. Now with our own family, sometimes during Lent or Advent we have had family prayers, just sitting at the dining room table. But I do want to make an oratory. So for instance, if we had one on our mantel, then does the family all stand in front of the mantel to pray? If a corner table, do we all just gather in front of the table? Would you have a kneeler available for individual prayer? If you had one on a sideboard in the dining room, would you sit at the table or stand at the sideboard?
I feel a bit dense, but I would appreciate the clarification!
Liza
Thanks for visiting, Liza! To answer your question, first, let me say that praying together before meals is wonderful. So many people almost apologize, yet just eating together is the very life of the family — it’s already a form of prayer — and thanking God for his generous provision is prayer again.
Then, you can gather at your Oratory for prayer. You can stand (as for saying, for instance, Morning Prayer together) or you can gather in the family room where you have a statue of Our Lady and a candle, and say the Rosary sitting as you usually do. A lot depends on what prayer you are praying. And very often there is more than one place (since we have more than one room, usually, in our homes) to light the candle and pray.
The prayer place is also a place to draw your eye and to be the center of your home. You don’t necessarily do anything there – it just IS.
It might help you to get a better idea of what the little oratory is and how it fits into your family prayer life to check out the links on this very post and see what people have done — and also, there is a book! You can purchase it here: http://amzn.to/1Qofo3b
or from Sophia Institute Press: https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/little-oratory
God bless, thanks for stopping by!
Wow, what a quick reply–thanks! Just to let you know, I have the book and I am enjoying reading it, but still needed a little clarification. thanks again for all you do–
Liza