“A friend made a pilgrimage to India. She saw many holy places, but her favorite was a mound made up of little pebbles, not one of them beautiful or exotic. For hundreds of years pilgrims had come to this site and each placed a tiny stone offering on the mound. The accumulation of these little stones became a “sacred” place.”

Since time began, people have searched for ways to express their belief that there is more to the world than we can see. These expressions have taken many forms, and embraced different ideas of what is holy. I believe that all these expressions — monotheism, polytheism, Judiasm, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., are like the tiny stones offered on the mound in the story above. We are all pilgrims offering our spirits to the divine. We are all holy.

This large altar contains fragments of prayers, Tibetan prayer stones, shells from the Gulf of Mexico, willow branches, and is crowned by Mary.