Playing an altar at home this Holy Week can help foster piety and Catholic devotion. In this article we share how to do it, in simple steps.
The Archdiocese of Seville in Spain He gave some recommendations to create a small altar at home that “helps us meet the Lord.”
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The first thing to do is “look for a accessible space for all family membersthat is placed in a place that invites prayer. ”
On the altar you can place a Bible, a crucifix or an image of Christ, a candle or candle and an image of the Virgin.
“Likewise, and following the liturgical times, colored tablecloths can be used: purple until Holy Wednesday, except Palm Sunday that is red; the White Holy Thursday, Red Good Friday and from the White Pascual Vigil during the 50 days that the Easter of Resurrection lasts,” says the publication.
On the altar, if possible, flowers can also be placed. The tablecloth can be purple in Lent and Advent, and green in ordinary time.
The Archdiocese of Seville recommends placing “a Rosariorelics (if possible) or Santos imagesa bottle with blessed water, devotionaries or prayer notebooks that enrich the place. ”
The local church states that “an altar at home is an opportunity to exercise as a domestic church, especially in the eyes of the little ones, which can be implied in this task with responsibilities in accordance with their age.”
This means that, if there are children at home, they can also participate in the altar assembly to pray as a family.
Originally published on April 14, 2022. It has been updated for republication.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.