Having a relic at home

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Is it ok to have a reliquary with a relic at home?

I am not yet a Catholic, I am starting RCIA in September. I grew up in a Protestant church that had a total dislike of Statues, relics etc. I have been reading about the Catholic faith for the past two years and am now sure that its time to become Catholic. Over the past couple of years I have bought a couple of statues and really find them useful as reminders or as an aid to prayer.

Someone I follow on instagram has some relics and yesterday I visited a church that has one. So my question is; Is it ok to have a relic at home?

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Yes , @Alex5 .

It’s fine to have a relic at home , or wear one on your person if the container is suitable such as this one which contains a relic of St Martin de Porres - - - - - - - - - -

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Ist class relics belong in Churches, third class it’s ok.
See CRM brothers posts on second class relics

Beware forgeries and fakes
 
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A Catholic charismatic in my country (who has the gift of healing and also permission of his bishop to exercise his ministry) was praying over someone one time and then stated: ‘Why am I having a vision of a coloured man right beside you?’

The guy he was praying over, took out a leaflet out of his pocket of a novena to St Martin de Porres and replied: ‘I have been saying the daily novena to St Martin de Porres since I was a child, and haven’t ever missed one day of the novena.’
 
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If you want to read examples of irish people cured through the intercession of St Padre Pio/ St padre Pio relics/ St Padre Pio photos/ prayer to St Padre Pio; read: ‘Padre Pio: The Irish connection,’ by Colm Keane
 
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A Catholic charismatic in my country (who has the gift of healing and also permission of his bishop to exercise his ministry) was praying over someone one time and then stated: ‘Why am I having a vision of a coloured man right beside you?’

The guy he was praying over, took out a leaflet out of his pocket of a novena to St Martin de Porres and replied: ‘I have been saying the daily novena to St Martin de Porres since I was a child, and haven’t ever missed one day of the novena.’
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That’s great to hear . 😄

When I was younger canonizations were few and far between .

The canonization of St Martin de Porres was one of the first I remember .

I recall Pope John XXIII lamenting that too many of the statues he saw of St Martin de Porres depicted him with a white face .
 
In 1994, the Vatican issued new norms for the possession of Relics. According to these, no first or certified second class relics (pieces of the Saint’s body or items used regularly by a Saint) may be possessed by individuals. They are strictly reserved for public veneration and must be in the possession of a Diocese through a specific parish or a religious order. This being said, third class relics, like @Rob2 posted, may be privately owned.

Even then, they must be treated with the proper respect. They are not to be treated as collectibles. I cringe and try to intervene when I find people trying to swap third class relics like pokemon cards (man… I just dated myself).

The link below has more specific information:

 
Other than eBay were can you buy second or third class relics?

Alex
 
Catholic gift stores online,

Just use google for ‘catholic giftstore’
 
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A lot depends on who you consider to be your patron, and then you go about trying to find something that connects you with that individual.

If you like St. Michael, I had seen a series of articles recently about relic stones from a cave in Gargano, Italy.

If you like St. Pio, a little relic medal should start at under $5, plus shipping.

When you see the relic take a form of a little scrap of cloth, generally you understand that a piece of fabric has been touched to a first or second-class relic, turning the fabric into a third-class relic, and it then gets snipped up into tiny pieces and distributed.

When an elderly priest died a while back ago, his possessions were sold at a church garage sale. We saw he had accumulated a number of first-class relics, probably when he was in Rome in the 30’s. We made sure that those were set aside and given to the parish church, rather than getting garage-saled with the rest of his possessions.
 
I don’t think you can buy relics, as that would be the sin if simony. But if someone gives it to you, that would be alright.
 
You can compensate someone for the cost of the reliquary, and for postage.
 
Well, the link does not say they cannot be possessed by individuals if they already had them passed along to them from clergy to family, to family. It is erroneous to say no one is allowed to have them in their possession. The last paragraph of the linked article states that very clearly.
 
So many fakes around. Millions.

Relics dont mean anything to me personally. I believe that they should all be buried in the ground and everyone should concentrate on Jesus Crucified not on what might be a bit of a saint.

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No one has to like relics themselves, personally. It’s not mandatory. But relics have been part of the Church since at least Paul–
God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
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and even Jesus–
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”
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So it’s just kind of raining on someone else’s parade if they express an interest in a valid thing, and someone goes pooh-pooh-pooh all over it. 😉
 
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