Can i bless things or only can a priest

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[BIBLEDRB][/BIBLEDRB]hello i have a lot of statues and rosaries and statues and 2 medals and i want to know can i bless them or a priest can only:)
 
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[BIBLEDRB][/BIBLEDRB]hello i have a lot of statues and rosaries and statues and 2 medals and i want to know can i bless them or a priest can only:)
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Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
 
There are lay prayers for blessing on things, but it is not the same as having a priest bless them. The Book of Blessings would be a good source of what a lay person can pray for blessings.
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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huh i didn’t know that, now I do 😛
 
Things No… However, you will be happy to know that a parent can bless his children… (Not the same as a priest, but a very powerful blessing) … Fathers are the dominant bless-er in the family, but when Pa Pa is not around, Mom can step in. >> Goes back to Genesis when the old patriarchs would bless their sons… Example: Jacob blessing his sons in the final chapters of Genesis.
 
By virtue of our Baptisms we become priests of the common order. We have been given the authority to perform blessings in the name of Jesus Christ and also to invoke the power of the Holy Spirit. When a lay person performs a blessing, the object of the blessing acquires a holiness that it did not formerly contain. When a priest performs a blessing, by virtue of his ordination, he has the backing of the entire Church. Our blessings do not have that backing, but are still pretty good.

I bless my food before every meal. I bless people after they sneeze. It works every time 😉
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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i never knew that:p
 
We can “bless” as Christians…

but things like medals and rosaries etc are to be blessed by a Bishop, Priest or Deacon.
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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Hi Eugen. Where did you learn this? I have not heard that before. Thanks.
 
JaredR said:
Hi Eugen. Where did you learn this? I have not heard that before. Thanks.
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I will start a different thread for this issue so hopefully someone else can determine the correct answer. I was actually surprised by the number of posters here that never knew of this. From all what I’ve read (articles, comments here, etc), you do not need to get a second rosary blessed. Of course, it doesn’t hurt if you do, but it will be more of a symbolic act rather than an actual act.

Anyways, I’ll start a different thread and hopefully someone can enlighten me on this issue.

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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Does that work with Bibles too?
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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Such is not the case as I understand the blessings of rosaries.

One needs to bring the new rosary to the Bishop, Priest or Deacon to have it blessed for ti to be blessed.
 
Catholicproud said:
Does that work with Bibles too?
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It does not even work for rosaries…

As to the Bible – it contains the Sacred Scriptures…but certainly if you wish the book to be Blessed one can bring it to the Priest or Deacon to be blessed.
 
Laity can bless but a Priest blesses in the Name of the Church.
I can offer my blessing but a priest offers the blessing of Christ and his Church.
 
Ok, reason I ask is that I have a friend who is a Catholic and wants their Bible blessed. They don’t read a Catholic translation… will a priest bless it still?
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
Only a priest can bless things. On that note, you will be happy to hear that if you get just one rosary blessed, that blessing passes on to all of your other rosaries. So you don’t have to bring all the rosaries to your priest; you only need to bring one 🙂

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
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Can you pleasecite a source for this? This seems to only be the case with the Brown Scapular. It is true that if one is enrolled in the Brown Scapular that one does not need to have the new scapular blessed. However I have not heard of this applying to rosaries. I have never heard the Dominicans mention it or anyone one else and so I would like to know where this idea comes from.

As for avemaria2010, maybe you should invite your priest over to bless everything. Only priests and deacons can bless religious articles.
 
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