During these 50 days of Easter, we encourage people to create a home altar. To share your own home altar on St. Luke’s website, you can send in a photo of your altar, and if you want, you can share about the sacred objects on your altar of how you use the altar.

Bonnie Rouse

I wanted to share this altar. My friend went to Bethlehem and came back with this photo. Isn’t it beautiful? Photo by CBMckean.

Sally Carlson

My altar is made of symbols representing Native American, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Japanese traditions. They remind me how much more to life there is than me.

Bonnie Rouse

An outdoor “faith” display.

Dianne Aid

I currently live in a nursing facility and have very little space, but this is my eclectic altar which includes Native drums, my Dance of the Elders dolls (from Mexico, depicting a dance which evolved from pre-Conquest to its contemporary version), a Hopi Kachina doll, a Franciscan Tau Cross, a picture of my youngest son who died just six years ago, and prayer beads. I would love to share the story of a few of the items because they come from my long time passion of indigenous Mexican cultures, and many of these sacred items are gifts from friends.

Dianne Aid

Mark Fredericksen

This is my home altar (I have one at my office, too). It has grown over time. There’s a lot of symbology and mystical grounding objects that would require a small book to go in to. In brief, there are a number of semi-precious stones (amethyst, agate, lapis lazuli, jasper, bloodstone, etc.) with their attending uses in energetic medicine and healing properties, ala Hildegard of Bingen. Representatives from the five elements: wood, fire, metal, water, earth. A labyrinth at the center with a candle and a pendulum to aid light and discernment.

Mark Fredericksen

Kevin Pearson and Tom Kenison

Here we keep our personal “Communion of Saints” so that we are always conscious of their ongoing presence in our lives.

Fr. Kevin