Having Rosaries Blessed as Gifts

[XXI_4]

Hi All,

I like to keep some rosaries, rosary pamphlets and miraculous medals with me in bags my car and desk at work to have on hand in case someone needs a rosary or medal. I’ve given away several, and I’ve had them previously blessed with the intention of giving them away as gifts.

My understanding is that you can have rosaries, medals, etc. blessed with the intention of giving them as gifts, but that the blessing does not remain attached to the item beyond that. For example, I get a rosary blessed intending to give to a friend. I give it to them, and the blessing stays intact. But then later they give it to another person - that third person would need to have the rosary blessed again. Is that correct?

I swear I have read somewhere that this is how this works… but I cannot for the life of me find it now. I’ve searched the CCC on sacramentals and the Canon Law and I’m drawing a blank. Maybe it’s in the rubrics of the ritual for blessings. At any rate I can’t find it.

I just want to make sure that if I give someone a Rosary and tell them that it is blessed for their use that I am correct (and also that I’m not bugging my priest to bless something someone will need to have blessed again anyway!).

Thank you very much for the help!

 

[pianistclare]

They only need to be blessed once.

 

[XXI_4]

They only need to be blessed once.

Thank you. I’m not sure what I was reading then, I thought the blessings of sacramentals were somehow tied to both the person and the object in a way that doesn’t remain after passing through different people.

I guess that’s why I couldn’t find it when I tried to look it up!!!

 

[Bookcat]

Thank you. I’m not sure what I was reading then, I thought the blessings of sacramentals were somehow tied to both the person and the object in a way that doesn’t remain after passing through different people.

That would not be correct.

Hi All,

I like to keep some rosaries, rosary pamphlets and miraculous medals with me in bags my car and desk at work to have on hand in case someone needs a rosary or medal. I’ve given away several, and I’ve had them previously blessed with the intention of giving them away as gifts.

My understanding is that you can have rosaries, medals, etc. blessed with the intention of giving them as gifts, but that the blessing does not remain attached to the item beyond that. For example, I get a rosary blessed intending to give to a friend. I give it to them, and the blessing stays intact. But then later they give it to another person - that third person would need to have the rosary blessed again. Is that correct?

I swear I have read somewhere that this is how this works… but I cannot for the life of me find it now. I’ve searched the CCC on sacramentals and the Canon Law and I’m drawing a blank. Maybe it’s in the rubrics of the ritual for blessings. At any rate I can’t find it.

I just want to make sure that if I give someone a Rosary and tell them that it is blessed for their use that I am correct (and also that I’m not bugging my priest to bless something someone will need to have blessed again anyway!).

Thank you very much for the help!

It REMAINS blessed. Even if it changes hands via gift a billion times

If it is destroyed…well then it is no longer blessed. And if it is SOLD it looses at least the indulgences attached if not the blessing (one ought not sell a blessed rosary anyhow really- at least in any way that is adding the price…for one cannot sell a blessing…).