[Magdalen] Baptism question

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Queen of heaven imagery is very widespread. A friend has a hundred year old wooden wall image of the BVM/QoH. Originally painted, but careworn through the years. 
Lynn

On Apr 12, 2019, at 11:16 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:





I have an elaborate black and gold family Buddhist shrine in my front room that has a "cathedral"ceiling of incense cedar.  There is an upper story with a large niche for a gilded Kwan-Yin ("TheBuddhist Virgin Mary"), and a lower more elaborate series of niches for a gilded, seated Buddhaan the center with surrounding Bodhisattvas, also gilded.  There is a Japanese style Buddhistaltar with a chrysanthemum brocade altar-cloth, and gilded hanging pieces after the Japanesefashion.  I collected all this stuff when I spent time in Kanasawa, Japan where there is one of themajor Japanese gardens. It is quite a souvenir, and has startled visitors.  To me, it is Christsurrounded by the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints.





In the back is a similar room with "cathedral" vaulting (Western Red Cedar).  At the center of theback wall in this room there is a polychrome nearly life size medieval Virgin and Child surroundedby gothic style angels, all wood carved in my favorite Bavarian village, Oberammergau,  Theyare housed in an elaborate corbel/canopy which I bought on sale from a church supply house inWisconsin that had done all the wood carving in the Eau Claire Diocese Cathedral.





My mother, good Methodist that she was, inquired why the BVM was riding a crescent moon,and she moaned at my reply:  "Because She's Queen of Heaven."





David Strang.






In a message dated 4/12/2019 3:28:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, magdalen at herberthouse.org writes:

Long before I tuned into Soto Zen, I had set up a small home altar with an icon of the Virgin Mary and Child. During all the years I practiced Zen at the Zen Center of LA, I also practiced it at home sitting zazen in Buddhist robes n front of that icon, which is still there.
Obviously, I don’t think there’s any issue from switching from having a Bodhisattva in a Buddhist meditation hall to having a Christian icon at home.

Allan Carr