I would love you all to pray for my next leap of faith in God,In the next few weeks I intend to start building my little chapel which I have decided to call "The foundation of the Sacred Heart" as the chapel will be under my house it was appropriate to name it this as it will be the foundation of my home the corner stone if you like..please pray hard that I have the energy,finances and time to complete my gift to God,the reason I have decided to call it the Sacred Heart is for three reasons I had a dream once of the Sacred Heart I only saw the tip of his beard and my heart felt as if it would burst,, After I completed my statue of St therese I was given a Sacred Heart statue that was thrown in a rubbish pile, I have kept it for over 13 years and never repaired it but I am going to start today,this will be the first thing that I will do,, I will do it because Jesus come first,,and lastly my reason for starting, I had another dream last night I woke at 3am in a cold sweat, soldiers had trapped me against a wall and pined my head with nails so that I could not move all I could think of was the Sacred Heart and I awoke repeating over and over again " Holy mother, pierce me through,In my heart each wound renew,Of my Saviour crucified. so here I go a few pics of the Sacred Heart statue that I need to work on.. View attachment 1084 View attachment 1085 View attachment 1086 View attachment 1087
I found a statue of Mary years ago at a thrift sale for $3. She was in about the same condition as your Sacred Heart but I felt so drawn to her. I took her home and touched up the paint as best as I could (I am NOT very artistic) and she is the glory of my dining room. I'll have to take a pic to show you. I try to imagine the people that years ago prayed in front of and drew strength from these old statues, and it really makes me reflect on what will happen to my statues and relics when I'm gone. I hope someone also finds hope in them, and cares for them, and maybe says a little prayer for me, their past owner. Ps... the crucifix in my avatar is one I saved up for and bought on the internet from a family in Brazil who makes them. It is over 3 feet tall and the corpus itself is over 20 inches. I paid almost $400 for it but to me it was worth it...its only money after all! I kiss His feet every morning, and it's hanging in my bedroom where I can see it from my bed.
I also had a BAD dream about this crucifix within months after I got it: I felt wide awake, and little demons like trolls came into my bedroom and marched on top of me in bed and held me down while they laughed and giggled. After they had me held down, they stood on each other's shoulders until they reached my beautiful crucifix, and then all stared at me laughing, while they pulled it down off the wall and the corpus shattered into hundreds of pieces! I was not scared just really ANGRY that they dared to do this!! They then left the room and I layed there in the dark for the rest of the night afraid to turn on the light and see the smashed crucifix. I must have fallen back asleep cause I woke up the next morn and all was fine. Praise God!! Scary though and I realized how the demons hate any holy reminder of our Lord or Lady.
Quis ut Deus, this is really very moving indeed. Thank you so much for pointing me to this. Would love to know where you are now with this chapel ...?
I had to revisit this today the sacred heart statue has remained white and unpainted since 2014 for reasons I don't know.. So last night I had a dream and I was told in the dream to paint the statue dark grey on the robe light grey on the tunic his hair is to be chestnut his face tan with blue eyes.. The person speaking to me in the dream also sang words to a new song and also the tune (which I can't remember just now please God it will come back to me) looks like I better get busy painting.. I looked up the meaning of grey and this is what I found The symbolic meaning of the color grey was mourning and repentence. Grey is the color of ashes and a punishment or penance was to walk barefoot in a town covered with ashes. Grey also has a Biblical meaning and is the Christian color for the season of Lent and closely associated with fasting and prayer.
My good wife just reminded me that my dream and the description of the meaning of the colour grey is identical to the recent message of akita "put on ashes and pray for repentance"
We recently moved into a new home and the previous owners left a garden statue of our Lady of Guadalupe (we moved in on her Feast Day). I was thinking I would like to repaint her this spring. I would love to get your thoughts on what paints are appropriate
im pleased that you will give the statue brown skin. Our Lord was middle eastern and not white european as often depicted
depends if the statue is made from concrete (outside statues) or plaster acrylic paints are easier to work with but not totally waterproof so if the statue is going to be outside it will need a coat or two of waterproofing acrylic or clear varnish ...if you intend to remove the paint its best to submerge the statue in hot water and gently peel the layers off .. do not use chemical paint remover as it will destroy the statue. hope that helps..
I am wondering if I should have my Mary statue facing our house or facing the road? We have a large yard. We have built a trellis and rose bushes surround it.
