(CNN) For almost a month, an Indianapolis church put a caged Holy Family on its lawn to protest US immigration policies. Now, the display looks a little different.

A group of episcopal priests removed statues of Mary, Joseph and Jesus from inside the chain link fence on Wednesday night. What they put in: a 5-foot-tall mirror with a familiar phrase on top: #EveryFamilyIsHoly.

The Rev. Steve Carlsen, dean and rector of Christ Church Cathedral, said the idea they want to convey is simple.

When visitors walk by and see their reflections inside the cage, they can imagine what detained or separated families at the US-Mexico border might be feeling.

"It comes down to something so simple: can we make a compassionate, imaginative leap of putting ourselves in another's shoes," Carlsen told CNN.

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