Getting Exorcised items blessed by a Priest

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I have been trying to get my friend who is a Priest to Exorcise and bless water, oil and salt for me, it seems to have been a very drawn out process of over six months, not sure it is taken to be very important. I listen to Fr Ripperger an Exorcist of the Traditional Rite on you tube on the Sensus Fidelium Channel and he recommends these things. Also just in general it seems like many Priests do not take seriously blessing properly the St. Benedict items and other things. Does anyone else find that some Priests take blessing things to be a joke? It is really disappointing.
 
Christine85 said:
Hi,

I have been trying to get my friend who is a Priest to Exorcise and bless water, oil and salt for me, it seems to have been a very drawn out process of over six months, not sure it is taken to be very important. I listen to Fr Ripperger an Exorcist of the Traditional Rite on you tube on the Sensus Fidelium Channel and he recommends these things. Also just in general it seems like many Priests do not take seriously blessing properly the St. Benedict items and other things. Does anyone else find that some Priests take blessing things to be a joke? It is really disappointing.
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Yes, they are normally short of time, so use the allowed simple blessing with the sign of the cross, and avoid formal ceremony.

“The chief things formally exorcised in blessing are water, salt, oil, and these in turn are used in personal exorcisms, and in blessing or consecrating places (e.g. churches) and objects (e.g. altars, sacred vessels, church bells) connected with public worship, or intended for private devotion. Holy water, the sacramental with which the ordinary faithful are most familiar, is a mixture of exorcised water and exorcised salt. and in the prayer of blessing, God is besought to endow these material elements with a supernatural power of protecting those who use them with faith against all the attacks of the devil. This kind of indirect exorcism by means of exorcised objects is an extension of the original idea; but it introduces no new principle, and it has been used in the Church from the earliest ages.”

Toner, P. (1909). Exorcism. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. newadvent.org/cathen/05709a.htm
Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
 
Since much superstition has crept into faith, as it has in all human endeavors, some Priests may be reluctant to bless such physical objects. Contact another Priest about it - no sense in straining a good relationship.
 
I have been trying to get my friend who is a Priest to Exorcise and bless water, oil and salt for me, it seems to have been a very drawn out process of over six months, not sure it is taken to be very important. I listen to Fr Ripperger an Exorcist of the Traditional Rite on you tube on the Sensus Fidelium Channel and he recommends these things. Also just in general it seems like many Priests do not take seriously blessing properly the St. Benedict items and other things. Does anyone else find that some Priests take blessing things to be a joke? It is really disappointing.
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I’ve never asked for special blessings like this myself, but you may have better like with a priest more used to traditional practices, maybe one who celebrates the TLM. Maybe find a Benedictine priest who would be familiar with the proper blessings for St Benedict items.
 
Christine85 said:
Hi,

I have been trying to get my friend who is a Priest to Exorcise and bless water, oil and salt for me, it seems to have been a very drawn out process of over six months, not sure it is taken to be very important. I listen to Fr Ripperger an Exorcist of the Traditional Rite on you tube on the Sensus Fidelium Channel and he recommends these things. Also just in general it seems like many Priests do not take seriously blessing properly the St. Benedict items and other things. Does anyone else find that some Priests take blessing things to be a joke? It is really disappointing.
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I am curious: why do you think there are evil spirits in your water, oil or salt? Do you really believe that?
 
Here is the actual prayer to ask your priest to use. I have no problem in getting priests to bless salt for me. I take a large container of salt to the Church Secretary, with the following prayer printed and taped to the salt; drop it off for the priest to bless, and stop back by a few days later to pick it up.

Any amount of salt may be presented to a priest for his blessing using the following official prayer from the Roman Ritual:

“Almighty God, we ask you to bless this salt, as once you blessed the salt scattered over the water by the prophet Elisha. Wherever this salt (and water) is sprinkled, drive away the power of evil, and protect us always by the presence of your Holy Spirit. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen”

from the website: catholic2.tripod.com/salt.htm
 
It seems the rankest of superstition to think that Demons, which are understood to be metaphysical and not physical Beings, would hang around in water, or have nothing better to do with their time (of course they do not live in the Timespace Continuum, so this is a rhetorical statement) than try to hassle puny humans whose existence is in all probability beneath them. The fact that the Catholic Church has for 2,000 years sprinkled “holy water” around to drive demons away is only evidence that they are taking advantage of the superstitions of gullible people, and scaring them into remaining in the folds of the church, so as to continue to pay tithes and thus the Priests salary.
 
Christine85 said:
Hi,

I have been trying to get my friend who is a Priest to Exorcise and bless water, oil and salt for me, it seems to have been a very drawn out process of over six months, not sure it is taken to be very important. I listen to Fr Ripperger an Exorcist of the Traditional Rite on you tube on the Sensus Fidelium Channel and he recommends these things. Also just in general it seems like many Priests do not take seriously blessing properly the St. Benedict items and other things. Does anyone else find that some Priests take blessing things to be a joke? It is really disappointing./QUOTE

No I haven’t come across this. I usually get Holy Water at the Parish center, I don’t bring my own water, just the container.🤷
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anonymous_in_fl said:
Here is the actual prayer to ask your priest to use. I have no problem in getting priests to bless salt for me. I take a large container of salt to the Church Secretary, with the following prayer printed and taped to the salt; drop it off for the priest to bless, and stop back by a few days later to pick it up.

Any amount of salt may be presented to a priest for his blessing using the following official prayer from the Roman Ritual:

“Almighty God, we ask you to bless this salt, as once you blessed the salt scattered over the water by the prophet Elisha. Wherever this salt (and water) is sprinkled, drive away the power of evil, and protect us always by the presence of your Holy Spirit. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen”

from the website: catholic2.tripod.com/salt.htm
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I don’t think I would feel comfortable providing a prayer to a priest. It would make me feel like I am giving him the impression that I think i know more than he does, which I don’t.

I also never knew there was different kinds of Holy Water, other then the regular kind and perhaps water from a shrine such as Lourdes.
 
Eric_Magus said:
I am curious: why do you think there are evil spirits in your water, oil or salt? Do you really believe that?
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This is just rude, and yes i believe this 100 percent…i also believe that your computer keyboard can use a little sprinkling too.
 
I was finally able to get some exorcised oil and salt. A Traditional Mass Priest blessed them for me. In regards to whether I think water, oil and salt have demons, not really no I didn’t think of that. My understanding in regards to the reason for exorcised oil etc is that these items provide a vessel for blessings
 
Christine85 said:
I was finally able to get some exorcised oil and salt. A Traditional Mass Priest blessed them for me. In regards to whether I think water, oil and salt have demons, not really no I didn’t think of that. My understanding in regards to the reason for exorcised oil etc is that these items provide a vessel for blessings
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Is there any difference between exorcised salt/oil and salt/oil that is blessed by a priest?
 
It looks like exorcised salt/oil has a prayer of exorcism on it where as non exorcised salt/oil just has a blessing on it, If I understood it correctly.
So exorcised one is more powerful as per Fr.Ripperger
 
abinjoy said:
It looks like exorcised salt/oil has a prayer of exorcism on it where as non exorcised salt/oil just has a blessing on it, If I understood it correctly.
So exorcised one is more powerful as per Fr.Ripperger
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For those, like me, who might be somewhat skeptical of Fr. Ripperger: Fr. Mitch Pacwa has said the same thing in the past.
 
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