Cassock and Surplice Blessing

[KnightOfSPUD]

Is there a blessing for a cassock and surplice from the Rituale Romanum? Im aware that there is one for Clerical Cassock but mine is for serving. I may be a seminarian but I still havent reached that stage in formation yet.

Its ok if there are post conciliar blessings, I just need a blessing for my new Cassock and Surplice. And my School Chaplain asked me to search for one because he is too busy with other things and I already checked our Book of Blessings but no luck.

Also pray for me and my vocation

 

[edward_george]

There isn’t a difference between a clerical cassock and a serving cassock in terms of what the thing is, even if the workmanship is better or worse or it gets used by a cleric or a non-cleric. I am a deacon in the seminary and I have nicer tailored cassocks that could be used by a server just as much as a “server cassock” from the church supply catalogs could. I served in them before I was ordained. A cassock is a cassock is a cassock. Just use that blessing. Or your chaplain can do the simple form of blessing for things for which the Book of Blessings has no blessing specified, namely “May Almighty God bless this (name of object) in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

-ACEGC

 

[CardinalChief]

Generally speaking, cassocks are not blessed. The wearer is by his ordination, vows, enrollment, institution etc. Cassocks like scapulars are not vestments but clothing and are not blessed. Surplices might be though. Not sure about them.

 

[Dempsey1919]

A priest friend and I searched the Roman Ritual for a cassock blessing two years ago. As far as I know, there isn’t one.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

Generally speaking, cassocks are not blessed. The wearer is by his ordination, vows, enrollment, institution etc. Cassocks like scapulars are not vestments but clothing and are not blessed. Surplices might be though. Not sure about them.

Cassocks can indeed be blessed. Religious habits assuredly are blessed as are scapulars, which are habits in miniature or at least that which is essential.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

You could potentially use the one from the old Roman Ritual, since you are a seminarian.

1. BLESSING OF A CLERICAL CASSOCK

A candidate for holy orders, who has obtained permission to wear the clerical cassock, may wish to have this garment blessed. The clerical aspirant, holding the cassock folded over his outstretched arms, kneels before the priest.

P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All: Who made heaven and earth.

P: The Lord be with you.

All: May He also be with you.
Let us pray.

Lord Jesus Christ, who condescended to clothe yourself in our mortal nature, we beg you in your boundless goodness to bless + this cassock which the holy fathers have sanctioned as the garb for clerics, in token of the innocence and humility which should be theirs. Laying aside the vanity of secular garb, may these servants (this servant) of yours, who are (is) to wear the cassock, likewise put on you, and be recognized as men (a man) dedicated to your service. We ask this of you who are God, living and reigning forever and ever.
All: Amen.

The cassock is sprinkled with holy water.

 

[KnightOfSPUD]

You could potentially use the one from the old Roman Ritual, since you are a seminarian.

1. BLESSING OF A CLERICAL CASSOCK

A candidate for holy orders, who has obtained permission to wear the clerical cassock, may wish to have this garment blessed. The clerical aspirant, holding the cassock folded over his outstretched arms, kneels before the priest.

P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All: Who made heaven and earth.

P: The Lord be with you.

All: May He also be with you.
Let us pray.

Lord Jesus Christ, who condescended to clothe yourself in our mortal nature, we beg you in your boundless goodness to bless + this cassock which the holy fathers have sanctioned as the garb for clerics, in token of the innocence and humility which should be theirs. Laying aside the vanity of secular garb, may these servants (this servant) of yours, who are (is) to wear the cassock, likewise put on you, and be recognized as men (a man) dedicated to your service. We ask this of you who are God, living and reigning forever and ever.
All: Amen.

The cassock is sprinkled with holy water.

This is the blessing that I spoke of in my first post.

Father, I still have not received any ministries, and it is an unspoken rule here in the Philippines that Seminarians, if not yet invested, cannot wear a cassock as a seminarian. He wears his clerical, with a collar depending on the Bishop and/or Superior. I wear my old Altar Server’s white Cassock when serving. And since this Saturday, I will be assisting in a mass with our Bishop as the celebrant, I would like to wear the new black cassock I had myself tailored for my training in the Vetus Ordo Missa.

What could you suggest? Is there a blessing as well for the Surplice?