Blessed thanksgiving bread

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Friends,
My parish distributed bread with a prayer card for thanksgiving. The priest told us they were blessed. Is this a relic? Do I eat it?
Not sure what to do.
thanks in advance,🤷
 
eli1118 said:
Friends, My parish distributed bread with a prayer card for thanksgiving. The priest told us they were blessed. Is this a relic?
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No. Relics are items related to saints.
Do I eat it?
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Yes. Blessed bread is an Eastern Christian tradition. It is a foreshadowing of the Eucharist.
 
Our parish always gives out blessed bread on Thanksgiving. They are simply regular loaves of French type bread that the priest sprinkles with holy water. We are told to share it with our Thanksgiving meal.
 
The Vietnamese in our parish donate a thousand loves of French Bread from their bakeries each Thanksgiving. It is blessed and given out at the mass so that all can have a blessed item as part of their Thanksgiving dinner.
 
Thank you so much!
We will have it as part of our dinner tonight.
Blessings to all.
 
This is neat. I wish our parish pastor would do this, but he’s to traditional…
 
Yeah, that’s a really nice sacramental item. We should have more food blessed for use on feasts and the like.
 
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This is neat. I wish our parish pastor would do this, but he’s to traditional…
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What do you mean by “too traditional”? Distribution of blessed bread is very traditional in some Catholic cultures.
 
We do this at our parish for Thanksgiving too.

It is to be consumed. 🙂
 
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