Best way to dispose of blessed candles?

[Gripper]

I had a lovely smelling candle which I had blessed and used it all up. I then decided to buy a pack of four and have them blessed but for some reason they are horrible like some chemical smell or something. I know we are supposed to bury them but they are in glass jars. Do I use boiling water to melt them and then pour it into the ground? Or light them in my garden and let them burn out?

 

[otjm]

Why not light one during prayer time, until it is used up?

Pouring wax and/or paraffin on the ground is not going to dispose of it.

Hey - Lent is coming up. It might make for a good penance to burn them, since you say the smell is unpleasant… just a thought, randomly cast forth…

 

[Gripper]

Why not light one during prayer time, until it is used up?

I would burn them normally and also burn incense but my wife would flip.

 

[Mary888]

Or light them in my garden and let them burn out?

This. And also pray while you burn them or listen to religious music. Afterwards you will just feel like the stress that you now feel at having to throw them away is gone.
Or you can just keep them stored somewhere if you still feel not okay to throw them away. I have a bag filled with them.
I can’t seem to reconcile care for Creation with burying plastic… Plus the complete rite says to bury them in a monastery or a clean place (clean as in wild, away from human communities).

 

[otjm]

Well, causing flipping wives is not highly recommended.

Lesson learned: don’t have candles blessed. God won’t be offended.

 

[bassmansteiny]

How about taking them to the Church, we have an area where people can set out Catholic books or whatever else they don’t want anymore for anyone to take for free. You are not throwing them out and maybe someone else can use them. Put a note on them saying they have been blessed and are free for anyone to have. Just a thought.

 

[Gripper]

Well, causing flipping wives is not highly recommended.

Tell me about it, I caused it once by sleeping, at night time.

Lesson learned: don’t have candles blessed. God won’t be offended.

I think in future I will burn the candle first before having it blessed, it is a sacramental after all.

 

[Gripper]

How about taking them to the Church, we have an area where people can set out Catholic books or whatever else they don’t want anymore for anyone to take for free. You are not throwing them out and maybe someone else can use them. Put a note on them saying they have been blessed and are free for anyone to have. Just a thought.

Good idea, that’s what our priest did with the advent candles but I was too late to grab one.

 

[bassmansteiny]

I got some really good books and passed on some of my old ones that way. Found a Rosary laying on the ground, dirty and all. I am going t clean it and bring it to Church to give away.

 

[OddBird]

I can’t seem to reconcile care for Creation with burying plastic…

I have been carrying around the rest of blessed candle since Candlemas Mass in my coat pocket. I have nowhere to burn it safely, and I am indeed not confident that I can safely bury it (it’s not bee wax ; what about the chemicals ?). I might start a collection as well !