How to make an altar?
When we first heard the term home altar, we felt a little scared, didn’t we? We don’t know what to do, and the idea of setting up an official “altar” always seems beyond our reach. Home altars are sometimes also referred to as family altars, prayer tables, or altar tables. Don’t let those names scare you either. It’s not complicated at all!
So how to design a home altar?
We are here to tell you that setting up an altar at home is not the complicated task it may seem! It’s simple to make, has no rules and is a great way to set your home.
What is needed to start a home altar?
A surface to configure it.
It could be any surface – the top of a shelf, a desk, a chest of drawers, a wall-hung shelf, a section of a closet, a tower of books… just find something that works for you. Sofia, at home, likes to use a chest of drawers that she inherited from her grandmother Maria, with a pink marble top. The surface you choose doesn’t have to be perfect, and you can always move the altar around a day later.
Some religiously inspired artwork to place on top of the surface, for example!
Try to gather objects that you already have at home, such as the Bible, candles, rosaries, statues, crystals, flowers, prayer books, medals, photographs, motivational and inspirational phrases, etc.
If you don’t have many things, your children can paint pictures, write dedications or arrange flowers. And do you know all those dry sprigs in the shape of a cross that you have left over from Palm Sunday? You can put them there too.
Setting up a home altar can certainly be as simple or complicated as you want it to be, so remember to choose something you can make happen. Sometimes we get so carried away with so many ideas that we end up complicating things too much! And, it’s okay to start an altar with what we already have.
The altar will be the greatest connection with the spiritual and religious world, where angels, spirits of light and deities will transmit and deposit their energies to illuminate and emanate your homes.
Treze, 2023.
