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Snoofie
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I have an…odd question. I’ve tried Googling but I’m not finding any answers, so I’m hoping someone here can shed some light on the subject.
My mother’s cousin lost her husband to lung cancer/Alzheimer’s last week. She is a Catholic, but he was not (although he didn’t practice his own religion, either.) Their children are all Catholic, and his funeral and burial were presided over by a priest. He was also laid to rest in a Catholic cemetery.
His widow had some keychains made by the funeral home, with his picture on them. No prayer or anything, just a regular keychain with a picture of him on each side. My mother was talking to her this evening and it came up in conversation that before she gives the keychains to various family members, she plans to ask our priest (the priest who presided over everything for him) to bless the keychains.
My mother is completely shocked by the idea; she doesn’t think it’s proper to have “secular” items like these keychains blessed by a priest. I tend to agree with her (after all, there is absolutely nothing “holy” about these keychains, nor can they be said to have any kind of significance in any religious sense) but I could be wrong. I had my guitar blessed a few years ago, but then again, I use it at Mass, so…I don’t know. Again, I really don’t know the answer.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it wrong to bless something as “trivial” as a keychain, or can you just bless any old item you please?
My mother’s cousin lost her husband to lung cancer/Alzheimer’s last week. She is a Catholic, but he was not (although he didn’t practice his own religion, either.) Their children are all Catholic, and his funeral and burial were presided over by a priest. He was also laid to rest in a Catholic cemetery.
His widow had some keychains made by the funeral home, with his picture on them. No prayer or anything, just a regular keychain with a picture of him on each side. My mother was talking to her this evening and it came up in conversation that before she gives the keychains to various family members, she plans to ask our priest (the priest who presided over everything for him) to bless the keychains.
My mother is completely shocked by the idea; she doesn’t think it’s proper to have “secular” items like these keychains blessed by a priest. I tend to agree with her (after all, there is absolutely nothing “holy” about these keychains, nor can they be said to have any kind of significance in any religious sense) but I could be wrong. I had my guitar blessed a few years ago, but then again, I use it at Mass, so…I don’t know. Again, I really don’t know the answer.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it wrong to bless something as “trivial” as a keychain, or can you just bless any old item you please?
