Blessed Salt and Blessed Oil (not Holy Oil)

[KnightErrant]

Hey Everyone,

I was curious if anyone on here has asked a priest to bless some salt for them or oil (not like the 3 Holy Oils) as a sacramental for personal use or if people didn’t take advantage of these sacramentals nowadays If so, how did you go about asking him to do that?

Thanks!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I have blessed salt from Fr. Z but it was already blessed before being given to me.

I reckon you might get more response asking a traditionalist priest to bless some of these things for you.

 

[BroIgnatius]

I was curious if anyone on here has asked a priest to bless some salt for them or oil (not like the 3 Holy Oils) as a sacramental for personal use or if people didn’t take advantage of these sacramentals nowadays If so, how did you go about asking him to do that?

Thanks!

Just ask. Since I am in deliverance work I ask a priest to bless water, salt, and oil according to the extraordinary form

 

[Maximilian75]

You’d probably be better off asking a FSSP or Diocesan TLM priest to do it. If you can’t find one of those two, print the blessings you want and just ask a normal priest to do it.

 

[midori]

I haven’t done oil, but I cook with exorcised salt. Basically, I go to a weekday Mass, when I know the priest isn’t on a tight schedule; I bring my 1962 missal with the salt prayer bookmarked; I bring two or three cans of salt; I ask the priest, “Would you please use this prayer to bless my salt?” He looks at it kind of funny, because even if he’s previously blessed my salt for me, he’s forgotten it (because it takes me that long to go through two or three cans); he checks out the book I’m handing to him to reassure himself that it’s legit (because no one else asks for that stuff); and he does it; and I thank him; and we get on with our days.

I had first learned about blessed salt from an FSSP priest, who encouraged all of us to use it for cooking, or for using it to bless your house/land in the way you would sprinkle holy water. So when I had him, it was easy to get someone to bless my salt. But now that I’ve moved elsewhere, where there isn’t a FSSP priest within 150 miles… I use my current method, and the priests are usually pretty cooperative, since I provide everything they need to reassure them that it’s okay.

 

[midori]

Flipping through my Missal, I’m seeing under “Various Blessings”: The Order of Blessing Holy Water (of which exorcising the salt is one component); The Blessing of Easter Lamb (food); the Blessing of Eggs; the Blessing of Bread; the Blessing of the Fruits of the Earth; the Blessing of any Kind of Food; and The Blessing of Candles.

Generally, when I run into holy oil, it’s oil that’s been touched to a relic. I usually run into it when someone sends a little packet in the mail and asks for a charitable donation; you can order a vial online. Things like St. Anthony’s Oil, St. Philomena’s oil; St. Anne’s oil; St. Pio’s oil; St. Raphael’s oil; and so on.