Bless "monastery icons"?

[Melkite_Sword]

hi, i just purchased what looks like a monastery icon. I’ve also just heard of the allegations against them (not sure if it’s true or not) of occult practices. In the case that they are, should i just get it blessed or dispose of it completely?

 

[The_Idiot]

My understanding is that if you get your priest to bless it all will be fine .

Where did you but it from - can you provide a link to the item on the Website ?

What you have read about the Firm calling themselves Monastery Icons Monastery Icons P.O. Box 1429 West Chester, OH 45071-1429 ] is accurate - they have a very bad past .

 

[SonCatcher]

hi, i just purchased what looks like a monastery icon. I’ve also just heard of the allegations against them (not sure if it’s true or not) of occult practices. In the case that they are, should i just get it blessed or dispose of it completely?

You already have it. Unless the image itself is somehow objectionable, I don’t see any reason to get rid of it.

 

[MrPip]

My understanding is that if you get your priest to bless it all will be fine .

Where did you but it from - can you provide a link to the item on the Website ?

What you have read about the Firm calling themselves Monastery Icons Monastery Icons P.O. Box 1429 West Chester, OH 45071-1429 ] is accurate - they have a very bad past .

But what is their present?? Many of us, myself definitely included, have pasts that are clearly “very bad” in any number of ways.

 

[The_Idiot]

Mr Pip

It is my understanding that the present site known as monastery icons.com can be linked if you trace things back using public records etc - I’m not familiar with USA record chasing , though I do trust my source who informed me ] to the group referred to in this article orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx

They seem to change their name with great regularity .

 

[PazzoGrande]

hi, i just purchased what looks like a monastery icon. I’ve also just heard of the allegations against them (not sure if it’s true or not) of occult practices. In the case that they are, should i just get it blessed or dispose of it completely?

Take this however you will, but I read a book called The Rite about Exorcists that says that objects get cursed because of their participation in a satanic rite.

True, blessings can do things. But in the same book, I read that priests sometimes have to bless a cursed object several times before the curse goes, and even then they burn the object and toss the ashes in running water. Father Gabriel Amorth also recounts his regret not praying properly when getting rid of a cursed object, and he got sick from touching it.

I don’t know the nature of *how *occult those folks are, but I wouldn’t accept anything from them.

 

[Melkite_Sword]

Take this however you will, but I read a book called The Rite about Exorcists that says that objects get cursed because of their participation in a satanic rite.

True, blessings can do things. But in the same book, I read that priests sometimes have to bless a cursed object several times before the curse goes, and even then they burn the object and toss the ashes in running water. Father Gabriel Amorth also recounts his regret not praying properly when getting rid of a cursed object, and he got sick from touching it.

I don’t know the nature of *how *occult those folks are, but I wouldn’t accept anything from them.

well I got it from a Catholic book store, it’s the exact identical picture as the one from monastery “icons” but it’s stuck on a piece of wood. The back says “Benedictine abbey”, so I looked this place up, it’s an Anglican monastery in New South Wales, apparently where the ‘icon print is mounted and varnished by hand’. Now because of this I don’t know where the print came from, I’m assuming it must be from monastery icons unless it’s sort of a fake copy. so I don’t know if its cursed. I’m thinking I should just return it to the bookshop I bought it from and inform them about the pictures, then possibly call this abbey up and tell them as well.

 

[MrPip]

Mr Pip

It is my understanding that the present site known as monastery icons.com can be linked if you trace things back using public records etc - I’m not familiar with USA record chasing , though I do trust my source who informed me ] to the group referred to in this article orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx

They seem to change their name with great regularity .

Yes, I’m aware of their past. My concern is who/what are they now? Are they still involved in Hinduism or other occult practices?

Also, how much of what the sell are items that are produced elsewhere by legitimate Christians that they are merely re-selling? Does that make those items suspect as well?

Not trying to defend them, but I tend to be stickler for not jumping to unwarranted conclusions .

Christ is Risen!
Jeff

 

[PazzoGrande]

well I got it from a Catholic book store, it’s the exact identical picture as the one from monastery “icons” but it’s stuck on a piece of wood. The back says “Benedictine abbey”, so I looked this place up, it’s an Anglican monastery in New South Wales, apparently where the ‘icon print is mounted and varnished by hand’. Now because of this I don’t know where the print came from, I’m assuming it must be from monastery icons unless it’s sort of a fake copy. so I don’t know if its cursed. I’m thinking I should just return it to the bookshop I bought it from and inform them about the pictures, then possibly call this abbey up and tell them as well.

Ah, well maybe there is a famous icon somewhere and both that Anglican abbey and Monastery Icons reproduced.

In that case, I agree with the others, just have it blessed.