Home Enthronement

The Sacred Heart image placed publicly in the home — in the principal room — as a sign that this household belongs to Him.

Why this practice

Home Enthronement is the visible, public sign of the Family Consecration. An image of the Sacred Heart — a painting, a statue, a sculpted relief — is placed in the principal room of the home (the living room, where guests are received) as a declaration that this family belongs to Christ.

Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey called this "the social reign of Christ in the home." The image is not decoration. It is a throne — a public claim of kingship within these walls.

How to begin

1Choose an image of the Sacred Heart you will keep for years — quality matters; this is not a poster.

2Have the image blessed by a priest; some parishes have a special Enthronement ceremony.

3Place it in the principal room of the home — the living room, where guests are received — not a back room or bedroom.

4Perform the formal Enthronement ceremony: the priest, if available, blesses the image and the family consecration is renewed before it.

5Pause before it daily. A genuflection, a kiss, a few words of love. The image is the meeting place.

It is not enough that Christ should reign in our hearts alone. He must reign in our homes, where the world sees Him.

— Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey

A prayer for this practice

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we enthrone Thee here in our home. Be King within these walls. Reign in our joys and our sorrows, in our meals and our sleep, in what we say and what we cannot say. Let everyone who enters here know whose house this is.

Amen.

When you're ready

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