Buying blessed sacramentals

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Does anyone know of a good website or a couple of good websites, where one could possibly buy blessed sacramentals (eg. Exorcised salt & exorcised water) without being guilty of simony (which is a sacrilege)? Is it even possible to buy blessed sacramentals without it losing it’s blessing due to the sacrilege? Or does the sacramental have to be free to retain its blessing?
 
You cannot purchase blessed items, nor can anyone sell a blessed item. You may purchase items and take them to your parish to have them blessed by your priest or a deacon.
 
I’m sorry, but why are you asking? What is your motivation and what are you thinking?

I think it might be one thing to try to rescue relics and blessed sacramental from the black market, but it’s another thing to seek them out for your own superstition or collection.
 
Blessings cannot be bought or sold. If you buy a blessed medal, you receive a medal and may have your priest bless it.

If you want Holy Water, your parish has a dispenser where you can fill up a bottle.

If you want blessed salt, buy some salt and ask your priest to bless it.
 
Sites get around this by simply selling the items and then they will get them blessed for you, after the fact, if you request it. For example, you can go to any of the on-line Vatican gift shops to buy a rosary. Then you can request whether or not you want it blessed at a Papal audience. Sometimes, they’ll even send you a blessed item you never bought along with what you ordered.
 
My advice is to stay away from the sources who are convincing you that the things the Church has deemed good are bad. When one uses the term “Norvus Ordo parish” it is a red flag, because no such thing exists.

There are Latin Rite parishes which celebrate the Ordinary Form. The Sacraments and Sacramentals not somehow “more powerful”, as long as the proper form and matter are used, all is valid.

Stay away from unapproved apparition websites. Make an appointment after Holy Week to sit down with your pastor and discuss your fears about invalid holy water, etc.
 
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I am asking because i want to have a steady supply of exorcised salt and epiphany water, along with other blessed objects, without having to ask a priest.
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I’ve had a 1 lb box of salt, blessed by my Dioceses Exorcist. Have had it for a decade, and there has only been a dent made in it. A pound of blessed salt lasts forever!
 
You are defeating your own argument in saying you
Catholic_Sheep said:
The problem is, that my parish is a Novus Ordo parish with quite modernist priests who probably have no interest in exorcising salt and water. I would like to have more than just water blessed in the new rite or water that the priest has just made the sign of the cross over. As for salt, i am sure that the same thing will happen (just the sign of the cross made over it) or i may get a weird look from the priest who may think I’m being supersitious.
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why not discuss this with your Priests. The Ordinary form of Mass is authentic Catholic teaching
Catholic_Sheep said:
I intend to use them in full awareness of authentic Catholic teaching.
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Even if you could buy blessed relics, how could you know , or be sure of how they were blessed?
 
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The problem is, that my parish is a Novus Ordo parish with quite modernist priests who probably have no interest in exorcising salt and water. I would like to have more than just water blessed in the new rite or water that the priest has just made the sign of the cross over. As for salt, i am sure that the same thing will happen (just the sign of the cross made over it) or i may get a weird look from the priest who may think I’m being supersitious.
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So you haven’t even spoke to your priest about having items blessed? When you say modernist priest do mean one who doesn’t celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form? A blessed sacramental is a blessed sacramental, any priest or deacon can bless an item. It does not matter what form of the Mass is said in the parish where they serve.
 
You speak with your pastor. He will determine if you need to speak with the exorcist. Their identity is not made public because, you can imagine the crazies who would make their ministry impossible.
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It is obvious that a Novus Ordo parish does exist, as most of the parishes in the Latin Rite celebrate the Novus Ordo missae.
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This means they are Latin Rite parishes celebrating Mass in the Ordinary Form.
 
There are exorcists who are publicly known (eg. Fr Chad Ripperger, Fr Gary Thomas, Fr Vincent Lampert and Fr Gabrielle Amorth)
 
Catholic_Sheep said:
The ordinary form of mass is authentic Catholic thinking? That isn’t the point! Even though the Novus Ordo is extremely modernist and contains several ambiguities, that is not the point. The point is the changes to the rites of blessing. Saying to “bless the person instead of the object”? Not catholic teaching!
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Please do not fall for the tricks and deceit and lies of the devil, in that the Ordinary Form of Mass is somehow not right and not authentic and any other label it is given in an attempt to discredit it.
We, the people, are blessed at Mass, every time we attend Mass, be it the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form.
Have you read the section on Catechism and blessing Sacramentals?

Are you saying ‘faith alone suffices’ If that is the case , then a blessing of a Sacramental by any Priest will suffice. Is your latin accurate? sola fide does not equal sola fides , one is ‘by faith alone’, the other is ‘faith alone’.
 
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Why do you say that calling the Novus Ordo missae unauthentic or “not right” is a lie from the devil? This is simply not true! The Novus Ordo missae is a highly protestantized mass even though it’s still valid! Why would the devil attempt to discredit the Novus Ordo, when it isn’t the true mass of the ages?
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Great question,

Why indeed would the devil attempt to discredit Mass in any form?
 
This is not something that is common knowledge. Even the other priests typically don’t know who it is, they just make the referral to the appropriate office at the diocese and they take it from there. Maybe it wasn’t so secretive in the past, but it’s certainly not something that any priest would divulge to a parishioner these days - at least not in the US. Also, not every diocese has an exorcist.
 
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