Blessing of Throats

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Hegesippus:
I remember last year getting my throat blessed, than catching a really nasty cold the next week that affected my throat.
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The blessing must not have been done correctly! (Just kidding)

It could have been worse: Ironically, Saint Blaise earned his title of “martyr” via beheading!
 
Anna Elizabeth:
By priests also given to general absolution and lay homilists!

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Anna
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Not necessarily… the parish I go to is generally very orthodox… last year the longer blessing was said over each person but this year the priest said it once for everyone. Then each of us came forward and had our throats blessed with “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. I think it’s because this year there was only one priest for all of us (it is a big parish), last year there were two.
 
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AJV:
Did anyone get their throats blessed with lighted candles?
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When I explained how the priest would bless my son’s throat. My son’s eyes got wide and he said, “that could get hot.” :eek:

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Anna Elizabeth:
By priests also given to general absolution and lay homilists!

:mad:

Anna
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How true. We had one priest for the whole school and he said the blessing once and gave the individual blessing in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It went quickly and even the kindergarten managed to sit still through it all.
 
I had mine blessed.

I have a thyroid 'issue" so of course I’m praying for a cure…won’t know for awhile, but God’s will be done.

I noticed a lot more people at our evening mass than usual for even a First Friday.

Our priest gave his homily and then asked for EMHC volunteers to assist with the blessings.

He gave the general blessing, then we went up individually to him and the volunteers with the crossed candles.

They said simply, “St. Blaise” and the response was “Pray for us”.
 
A friend of mine at church said, “It’s a good thing those candles weren’t lit, then he’d really be ST. BLAZE!” :dancing:
 
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MarthaMartha:
A friend of mine at church said, “It’s a good thing those candles weren’t lit, then he’d really be ST. BLAZE!” :dancing:
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hi,
we all got an individual blessing. Father held the 2 candles crossed ( he said it’s like the way St. Andrew gets depicted, usually, with the 2 crossed candles…) and said the blessing. No general blessing. That’s not as pretty, but it should work, too. It was my first time, and I was happy!
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Elzee:
When I was young each person walked up to get their throat blessed. The priest held two candles in a ‘v’ in front of your throat and gave you an individual blessing.

Today, our priest did a ‘general throat blessing’ for the entire congregation in place of the final blessing at the end of Mass. Is this how it’s done these days?
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I received the blessing. I’ve been a Catholic a long time and didn’t know who St. Blaise was, but lined up for the blessing along with everyone else. After getting back from the mass (very full for a daily mass), I did a online search for St Blaise and read about him. I don’t know if my old parish did this, but I rarely attended daily mass before so perhaps they did and I never knew.

There were three priests present – at that parish I have never seen more than one at daily mass, sometimes without an alter server.
 
Is there any reason besides the personal preference of the priest that one could not get their throat blessed twice. I had my throat blessed with my choir on Thursday night (Because I misunderstood an answer question). The next morning when I came up to 6:30 AM with my daughter I wanted to get it blessed again (only because my throat was sore), but I was refused.

I did call Father to try to explain myself, but so far no return phone call. I’m afraid if call again I will really look crazy.
 
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susanbennett:
The next morning when I came up to 6:30 AM with my daughter I wanted to get it blessed again (only because my throat was sore), but I was refused.
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I do not know if this is covered in the Book of Blessings but I see no reason why you should have been refused the blessing the second time, the following day. After all, one can even receive Holy Communion more than once in the same day!
 
This is a little late but I just found out about another slap in the face to tradition. Initially I was happy to hear that the students throats were blessed after the Friday ‘all school’ Mass at my son’s school. Only later did I discover that the priest did not give a general blessing. I assume he did some throats but the photo posted on the school website clearly shows some woman ‘blessing’ throats as well.

school.sacredheartwyjo.org/parenthome.cfm (the content on the link changes weekly so if you follow it after the 17th it will likely be different)

Is this valid? Are lay people allowed to be out blessing people and things these days? :mad:

I think I’ll go out and distribute ashes in a few weeks. :eek:
 
This is a little late but I just found out about another slap in the face to tradition.

Initially I was happy to hear that the students throats were blessed after the Friday ‘all school’ Mass at my son’s school. Only later did I discover that the priest did not give a general blessing. I assume he did some throats but the photo posted on the school website clearly shows some woman ‘blessing’ throats as well.

school.sacredheartwyjo.org/parenthome.cfm (the content on the link changes weekly so if you follow it after the 17th it will likely be different)

Is this valid? Are lay people allowed to be out blessing people and things these days? :mad:

I think I’ll go out and distribute ashes in a few weeks. :eek:

Mike
 
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travellinmike:
This is a little late but I just found out about another slap in the face to tradition.

Initially I was happy to hear that the students throats were blessed after the Friday ‘all school’ Mass at my son’s school. Only later did I discover that the priest did not give a general blessing. I assume he did some throats but the photo posted on the school website clearly shows some woman ‘blessing’ throats as well.

school.sacredheartwyjo.org/parenthome.cfm (the content on the link changes weekly so if you follow it after the 17th it will likely be different)

Is this valid? Are lay people allowed to be out blessing people and things these days? :mad:

I think I’ll go out and distribute ashes in a few weeks. :eek:

Mike
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Yes, it is perfectly valid. The Blessing of the Throats is a blessing that can be ministered by lay people with the permission of the Priest. There have been a few threads on this topic lately, so if you do a search you should find them, along with the sources proving it.

Peace and God bless!
 
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