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Prometheum_x
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Sir Knight:
While I am tempted to agree with you, it is not because the CCC says so. The CCC prohibits simony, but its own definition of simony says nothing about physical items. I am not sure why you keep referring to the CCC in your attempt to prove your point.Let me try this again with a more direct example. Two stores both selling the same exact item. If store ‘A’ sells the item for $10 and store ‘B’ sells the item for $5 and the item in store ‘B’ has already been blessed, it would be wrong for you to buy it even though it is cheaper than the unblessed item. The cost of the item has no bearing on the matter according to the CCC. Buying a blessed item is wrong. Period.
Another example. Again two store selling the same items for the same price and this time both items are unblessed. Both stores offer a service to have the items blessed. The first store charges a $1 for the blessing service while the other store asks for volunteery [sp] donations. To pay the $1 at the first store to have the item blessed would be wrong. If you gave a $100 donation at the second store that would not be wrong because the blessing would have happened if you gave the money or not while at the fist store the blessing would not have happened unless you paid the $1.
Again, the cost has no bearing on the matter. Bottom line: do not buy pre-blessed items and do not pay to have an item blessed.