Raised Catholic...can you tell?: Another Catholic symbol for my home

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Another Catholic symbol for my home

While shopping at one of our local thrift stores I found this beautiful copper mold. My mother always had a few copper molds hanging on the wall of her kitchen when I was growing up, so they invoke wonderful memories for me. At less than $2, I knew I wanted it. Alas, I had no cash with me.

I went back this week and the mold was still there! Armed with some $$$ this time I brought it home with me. It's soon going to be polished up and hanging in my kitchen to remind me of one of my goals in life--to make a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

The shell-shape is the same shape as the shells the pilgrims wear. I may never walk El Camino de Santiago, but I can be reminded that all of life is a pilgrimage each day when I see this shell in my kitchen.

Well worth the $2, don't you think?

1 comment:

AnonymousAugust 2, 2013 at 7:34 AM
Hola! I think that's beautiful. I just moved into a new place and am looking for ways to Catholicize my casa! I like the obvious Mary statues, crucifixes and Last Supper paintings but love the symbolism of this clam shell. I even keep a Nativity Scentsy light out all year long!!

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Cristina
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Thank you for the blessing of a godly life companion. I pray that You would continue to grow in him a deep and abiding love for You.

Guide him, I pray, as he guides this family; give him wisdom and understanding. Invigorate him with the knowledge of Your grace, and refine him with Your truth.

I pray that I would be a helper, a source of encouragement; and I pray that he would find this home to be a place of rest and refreshment.

Amen.

St. Paul, pray that America follows in your footsteps.

Because our country needs to undergo a great conversion, one as great as the one St. Paul experienced!

Novena Prayer

O glorious St. Paul, after persecuting the Church you became, by God's grace, Her most zealous Apostle. To carry the knowledge of Jesus, our Divine Savior, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

You joyfully endured prison, scourgings, stonings, and a shipwreck, as well as all manner of persecutions, culminating in the shedding of the last drop of your blood for Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Obtain for us the grace to labor strenuously to bring the Faith to others and to accept any trials and tribulations that may come our way. Help us to be inspired by your Epistles and to partake of your indomitable love for Jesus, so that after we have finished our course we may join you in praising Him in heaven for all eternity.

Amen.