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orchdork
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Hi,
I’m wondering about families’ prayer corners/atriums.
I found an atrium topic, but the links didn’t work for me.
We had a prayer corner at our old house and we loved it.
We have moved and can’t seem to find the right space for the right fit.
The children are older now, and I wonder if that is what is??
I’m thinking of changing a closet into that kind of space, opening the doors to find a quite beautiful spot.
Ideas and photos would be fantastic. Thank you for any assistance!!
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Sorry,  I think I posted this wrong. It may need to be under Life in the domestic Church
Thank you !!
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Yes, I'll move it for you...and I have a few links as well. 
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Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and Atrium Threads
What is an Atrium? - Moira Farrell offers her insight on the home atrium starting on page 2 of this thread.
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Materials
Miniature Vestments and Altar Cloths
And...
I have a few posts on my blog showing how we incorporate this with our Feast Table which we use as our Home Atrium.
Hopefully a few others will chime in with pictures and ideas as well.
I think the closet idea is a really wonderful one! And it is quite appealing to me with a newly walking baby toddling around everywhere!
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We have icon corners in our home. Here is a blog post that I did on this topic. We've since added a basket of "church" books on the floor which the children sometimes use as their prayer books - mostly they like to take their dad's real prayer books off his shelves to try to distract him during prayer 
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Our prayer table in our home is a shoe-shelf (or something like that) from Wal-Mart. Basically just two horizontal shelves. We sit on the floor around it. We have a cloth for every liturgical season, use the lower shelves to hold small boxes of holy cards, images, cloths, candles, snuffer, etc. In our current home, I have it sitting in front of a square end table so that we can have a background area (and more storage for larger things underneath). We put our Advent wreath there, nativity scene and other larger things.
On top is always a gold-cloth cushion for the Bible and a candle. We swap up the rest depending on family events, liturgical cycle, etc. Statues, images, letters from friends who need our prayers, for example.
Separately, I have a storage trunk covered in a nice cloth on which are placed items for young children to explore - so the moveable nativity scene, for Lent it usually has a basket of rocks, toothpicks (thorns) and other symbols of Lent, for Easter it has small eggs, butterflies picked up cheap at Target, etc.
As my son gets older (he's almost 5 now), I'm considering doing something "higher" for our prayer table - perhaps the end table itself, but I"ll let him decide when it's time or if he will always use the low one....
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we have two places. A table in a central location has rocks from a fossil hunting day that have been built into a grotto. We are celebrating Lourdes and Bernadette for a whole week. I also have an image of Bernadette and a Mary Statue that gets moved around on the pile of rocks. Also the Litany of our Lady of Lourdes.
In our prayer room, there is a green cloth on an old "hope chest". Also there are a zillion prayer cards in a small basket on the floor, icons on the wall above, one word cards for the children to place on a small stand (words like Alleluia, Amen, Thank you God, etc.) We have a small wooden bowl of those little statues you know the ones that missions send you with requests for money. Today I noticed one of the children had put a small book about the mass on the "prayer table". There are cloths for the other liturgical times stored under the chest. I also have Mary candle (a blue candle a child made for me). Hubby and son made a little prayer stoop for kneeling. It's great to go past the little room and find a child in there quietly praying or singing.
I find the kids like "real" books from Daddy's missal set, or liturgical books. Even if they don't or can't read them, they like to turn the fine pages and pretend to sing.
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Topic: Prayer corner/ atrium
