Could anyone recommend a healing/blessed oil for me?

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I’ve been making use of St. Anne’s oil from the shrine in Cincinnati. But, am wondering if I could perhaps do with a different one. I’m not sure which. Though, there is an Eastern Rite oil (Holy Skete of St. Anne) from Greece that I’m interested in. Though, I’m not sure.
 
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If you’re sick, perhaps what you want is the oil for the sick used in the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. The sacraments have more to offer than any do-it-yourself rituals.
 
You may not realise this is bordering on a superstititious approach to spirituality and religion. How old are you?
 
Oh, guys, I’m just using it as a devotional aid for depression and was just wondering if anyone else had another one to recommend. I’m not looking to regrow a lost foot or something. lol
 
St John’s Wort. It’s a natural anti-depressant and its name is ‘devotional’.
 
There is no Catholic use for oil as a DIY Sacramental. Approach your priest for the anointing of the sick if you are in grave/serious illness.
 
i think the oil the OP is speaking of is on the same level as holy water/blessed salt- not chrism or the like.
 
The Capuchins often give out oil blessed with a relic of Padre Pio.

The Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Perryville, Missouri, sends out oil blessed with a relic of Catherine Laboure.

The National Shrine of St. Philomena out of Wisconsin, as well as the Universal Living Rosary Association out of TX, are sources for blessed St. Philomena oil. However, I seem to remember some sort of… controversy…? about this one, from a shrine in Italy, that claims to be the only true source of St. Philomena oil…?

The Franciscans are a good source for blessed St. Anthony oil.

There are others, but those are the four that I come across most frequently in the mail, etc. A lot of it comes down to who do you feel a connection with?
 
Ah, thank you, I was looking for Laboure oil as the basilica in Canada doesn’t seem to have any in stock. Though, I’ve a devotion to St. Anne I find the Marian oriented sacramentals to be of value to my purposes. Thank you.
 
If you seek a personal devotion with oil, the only one I know of is using the oil from the candle in front of which you pray at home. The oil is holied by prayer. The more you pray the more holy it is.
Some stuff about the tradition of oil:


You can buy an oil candle from Greek Catholic or any Orthodox online shop. The oil should virgin olive oil, the best oil in your house because it is an offering to God. Holy oil from church the priests so not give away or alienate for the simple reason that it is a mystery of God that oil is Holy, and they need to make sure it is not misused or thrown away like any oil.
 
BlackFriar: you’re way off the mark there. The church has allowed the use of sacramental oils of different sources for centuries by lay people as a devotional aid. In my case, such would be the blessed oil of St. Anne. These things have been around for a very, very long time and I’m sorry you’re not knowing of them. Which, as a Dominican, you ought to. Prayers - Saint Ann's Shrine
 
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It doesn’t mean you can’t also go to a doctor. God can and does use them for healing. After all, St Luke was a physician.
 
Sure, but the OP didn’t ask for a recommendation for a psychiatrist. Or a physician. Or a psychologist. Or anything. 😛

The conversation is more like, “Hey, I wear a Miraculous Medal, but I was thinking about wearing a different one. I was thinking about getting a St. Benedict’s medal. What do you think?” or it’s like, “Hey, I have some holy water that my priest blessed. But he just used the short blessing for it. Do you know of a way to get exorcized holy water? Or maybe some Lourdes water? Anyone have some (name removed by moderator)ut?”

People like to incorporate sacramentals in their daily lives. Me, I like to cook with blessed salt. I haul two or three cans of ordinary salt to my priest; I give him my 1962 missal and point to the prayer I want him to use; he looks at me weird; he looks at my missal weird; he does what I ask; and I only have to bother him once every one or two years. 😛 But just because something isn’t in popular use doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have centuries’ worth of tradition behind it.

From the OP’s link to St. Jude Oil–
Blessing with St. Jude Oil, or if you will oil blessed with the Arm Relic of St. Jude, is a common practice among the Friends of St. Jude. Since it is NOT the Sacramental of the Anointing of The Sick, any baptized Catholic can impart this blessing. Blessings with oil touched to a relic or the tomb of one our great Saints has been a practice in the Church for over 14 centuries.
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Yes the Church tolerates all sorts of traditional practises.
That does not mean it accepts the superstitious lay explanations or motives that unfortunately often surround them. Blessed oil or oil originating from a specific shrine has no inherent healing properties other than that of the oil itself.
Your superstitious assumptions have no authoritative backing whatsoever. If you can find a Catechism or Magisterial article that supports your ancient pagan views I am willing to be corrected.
 
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Yes this is fairly supsrstitious if you believe different prayers of blessing make for different degrees of holiness or healing efficacy re the salt. This is foolishness.
Healing comes from God through faith not from magical totems. It makes no difference to the oil or the salt what its source or blessing provenance.
Such nonsense is the stuff of religious nutters.

Put your effort into praying more for your needs rather than worrying over more effective blessings or saints.
 
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You’re not a real Dominican, are you? That’s preposterous. In praying to a saint you are asking for their blessings through the prayer as you are effectively praying WITH them. The use of their oil is akin to the use of holy water and while no one shrine or location on the map has more inherent power than another the devotion one can give to God through their efforts associated with one can if that one locale has been realized as chosen for that purpose. Ever hear of Lourdes?
 
I’m posting a link for you here to a very nice article about Sacramentals from EWTN’s website:

https://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/WHATARE.HTM

Hopefully it will be of help to you and give you a better understanding of them, and their use, and that it will help you see and understand that the nice members who are posting in this thread are not using them in any way that is superstitious.

I use Sacramentals myself, out of love for our Lord and his Holy Saints.

I am not superstitious about their use, either.

God bless you, and may God bless all of us who are posting on this thread! ❤️
 
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