Epiphany blessing of homes today

[Sirach2]

catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=49

It is a beautiful tradition and a very real blessing to impart to your homes. Just a little reminder so you may participate in this ritual today. Some parishes here in our diocese customarily give out chalk, holy water in small bottles, and the blessing prayers. This is just a sample in case you do not have them available in your church.

I had not seen blessings such as this one which require that each door in the home must be inscribed. I simply do the front door, placing the inscription on the casing above the door. I do, however, bless each room. It need not be the father to give the blessing prayer, as in the case of those who are widowed, etc.

God bless everyone!

 

[paperwight66]

This is such a lovely custom.

It’s totally unknown here in the UK, presumably because we didn’t have missionaries from Germany (who, I assume, introduced it to the United States).

 

[tawny]

Received the blessed chalk at Mass this morning. Did the home blessing, as every Epiphany.

 

[Allegra]

We’re planning on doing our home blessing after lunch. Then we’re going to watch The Little Drummer Boy. My husband and I have tickets to see a show tonight, but if we didn’t we’d have our customary shrimp creole dinner too!

 

[Slartibartfast]

This is such a lovely custom.

It’s totally unknown here in the UK, presumably because we didn’t have missionaries from Germany (who, I assume, introduced it to the United States).

Not totally… We had blessed chalk and an instruction pamphlet available in the church and so I did it. And I is in England, innit.

 

[Nelka]

You see it all over Poland which is where I saw it first…

Talking of blessings I acquired some blessed salt a little while ago and sprinkled it round my house and outside of my home with some prayers. My home does appear happier!

 

[paperwight66]

Not totally… We had blessed chalk and an instruction pamphlet available in the church and so I did it. And I is in England, innit.

Very interesting, Slartibartfast (and well done with those Norwegian fjords, by the way).

You don’t happen to know who published the leaflet, do you? I’d rather like to introduce the custom to my parish.

How are the mice?

 

[Slartibartfast]

Very interesting, Slartibartfast (and well done with those Norwegian fjords, by the way).

You don’t happen to know who published the leaflet, do you? I’d rather like to introduce the custom to my parish.

How are the mice?

[talking about the mice] In the field of management relations, they’re absolutely shocking.you see, every time they give me an order I just want to jump up on a table and scream!
Anyway, there is nothing to say who published it. I can scan it and email it to you if you like?

 

[Bookcat]

This is such a lovely custom.

It’s totally unknown here in the UK, presumably because we didn’t have missionaries from Germany (who, I assume, introduced it to the United States).

Not just a German custom…

 

[paperwight66]

[talking about the mice] In the field of management relations, they’re absolutely shocking.you see, every time they give me an order I just want to jump up on a table and scream!
Anyway, there is nothing to say who published it. I can scan it and email it to you if you like?

Thank you, that would be very helpful. I hope it will work via Personal Messages.

As a matter of interest, over in the Traditional Catholicism section right now there is a thread with various people saying that they had never come across the custom either, even in America.

 

[pnewton]

This part of Texas has this tradition, mostly brought in by Czechs.