HOW LOW CAN THEY GO...EBAY SELS Charm blessed by the Virgin Mary herself

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Liberian:
I have to ask, since Mary is not a priest, how can she bless things? I ran into this at Conyers, too.
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Since when does one have to be a priest to bless anything? I baptized my own child and it was recognized by the RCC. My wife and I bless our children every night, do you suggest that this is somehow illicit?

Good grief, every Catholic on the planet asks for a blessing (or should) at every meal. Do you invite your pastor over three times a day? No, men and women are both quite capable of asking for blessing regardless of ordination.

The fact is that a blessing (verb) can be conducted by anyone. The blessing (noun) comes from God and no other source.

Nohome
 
miguel delgado:
so what you are saying is that my pair of sandals from saint Peter (mint condition) is not real…NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!

And what about the feather of the wing st. michael lost in the fight with satan???..i buy them at ebay.
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How do you think I felt when someone suggested that the locks of Jesus’ hair that I had from His first haircut might not be genuine!
 
Arba Sicula:
How do you think I felt when someone suggested that the locks of Jesus’ hair that I had from His first haircut might not be genuine!
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Please forgive me for such outrageously tangential comments, but this post reminds me of something that really happened in church history. At one time, numerous churches in Europe claimed to have the “Holy Prepuce” or “Holy Foreskin”. At one point, a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess it at the same time. Forget about the jewish tradition of burying it after circumcision, they had it and it had magical healing powers.

What is happening on Ebay is shameful, but there has been a trade in Catholic artifacts since the middle ages.

Nohome
 
Just thought we should all know. The item had ZERO BIDS and has ended. It can be re-submitted though.
 
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Nohome:
Since when does one have to be a priest to bless anything? I baptized my own child and it was recognized by the RCC. My wife and I bless our children every night, do you suggest that this is somehow illicit?

Good grief, every Catholic on the planet asks for a blessing (or should) at every meal. Do you invite your pastor over three times a day? No, men and women are both quite capable of asking for blessing regardless of ordination.

The fact is that a blessing (verb) can be conducted by anyone. The blessing (noun) comes from God and no other source.

Nohome
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When you bless your food and your chindren you are doing so as the duly constituted authority. But nevertheless, blessings of sacramentals indeed require a priest, because sacramentals are aids to devotion and prayer, and as such, are set aside by the Church, whom the priest, by virtue of his ordination, represents. The common blessings pronounced by laity ask God for blessings, but they do not set our food or our children as sacramentals or consecrated persons. That’s why the laity cannot bless with the sign of the cross in the air as priests do. As for your baptism, it’s valid because it’s a faculty the Church grants everyone.

I would be more inclined to believe in the validity of a sacramental’s blessing if St. Peter or one of the other apostles appeared, since they possess Holy Orders. Our Lady doesn’t. In any case, the Church’s norms call for the blessing of all sacramentals to be done according to the liturgical books, many of which call for a priest, or sometimes, even a bishop.
 
Arba Sicula:
I’m afraid that someone has suckered you, Ma’am, into believing such nonsense. The notion of rosaries blessed by the BVM is on the same level as having a piece of wood from one of the rungs of Jacob’s Ladder. It is superstition, plain and simple.:ehh:
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I suppose you do not believe The Blessed Mother could promise Heaven to three little children at Fatima or that rays of Graces could flow from her hands as she commissioned The Miraculous Medal, both Church sanctioned apparitions. For someone who can promise Heaven and dispense Graces blessing a few Rosaries should be a piece of cake.

To state that a priest, a sinner like the rest of us, could give a Blessing and not The Mother of God, the Arc of the Covenent is laughable.
 
sorry if this is a bit off-topic…
I also heard about the “Holy umbilical cord” which supposedly is Jesus umbilical cord.

how about a 2000 year half-eaten piece of bread that was eaten by Saint Paul?

or probably a piece of animal skin worn by Adam.

or even the bones of the cock that crowed when Saint Peter denied Jesus (but i doubt it-the rooster would have been made dinner by the sanhedrin).

or probably Saint Peter’s sword?

the last but not the least,

the guts of the whale that swallowed Jonah. 😃
 
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patrick456:
sorry if this is a bit off-topic…
I also heard about the “Holy umbilical cord” which supposedly is Jesus umbilical cord.

how about a 2000 year half-eaten piece of bread that was eaten by Saint Paul?

or probably a piece of animal skin worn by Adam.

or even the bones of the cock that crowed when Saint Peter denied Jesus (but i doubt it-the rooster would have been made dinner by the sanhedrin).

or probably Saint Peter’s sword?

the last but not the least,

the guts of the whale that swallowed Jonah. 😃
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For centuries, several churches in Europe claimed to have Jesus’ foreskin (from his circumcision) until Rome told them otherwise.

Nohome
 
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Nohome:
For centuries, several churches in Europe claimed to have Jesus’ foreskin (from his circumcision) until Rome told them otherwise.

Nohome
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Realistically, how can such a thing be verified? :confused:

Sometimes I just don’t get what it is about artificial relics that cause us to stray from the real Church who, of course, houses the authentic relics.

Alan
 
Blessed items, I feel, can be similar to relics of saints which can be parts of their body or clothing… and for that, the item must simply be in posession or contact by the saint or God, for example, a piece of the true cross. Those items have practically touched something heavenly itself especially with regards to those blessed at apparitions. Just as you might say Fatima is a blessed spot, because Mary appeared there, so too are items that she may touch be blessed, or people who have experienced her in their midst be blessed. It is quite different than when a priest consecrates something or blesses things with Holy Water. But it is blessed none the less.
 
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Nohome:
For centuries, several churches in Europe claimed to have Jesus’ foreskin (from his circumcision) until Rome told them otherwise.

Nohome
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Ummm…I think there is a church that has a reliquery with this supposed relic. If it is authentic then we actually have Jesus’ DNA! I hate to think of where this could lead if it got into the wrong hands.
 
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shannin:
I don’t blame e-bay. His mother left him this medal to guard and what does he do? He attempts to sell it on e-bay for $800. Shame on him. :mad: :tsktsk:

Honor thy Father and Mother.
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:mad: I agree!!!He aught to be ashamed of himself:tsktsk:
 
Lisa4Catholics said:
:mad: I agree!!!He aught to be ashamed of himself:tsktsk:
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There’s a saying in this country that goes, “nothing is sacreed anymore”. That qoute war from our local newspaper when the report read how a rectory was robbed of money at gun point. That sums up the state of our society pretty well I think. It’s our modernistic forms of Capitalism (which isn’t even Capitalism at all) and our insatiable greed for money that have already done that.
 
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Celeste88:
Ummm…I think there is a church that has a reliquery with this supposed relic. If it is authentic then we actually have Jesus’ DNA! I hate to think of where this could lead if it got into the wrong hands.
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There are several churches that CLAIM to have the holy prepuce, but it is very unlikely that any actually do since it was Jewish custom to bury the foreskin after circumcision. One church in Italy had its jeweled relic case stolen (including the contents) 25 years ago, but it was never recovered.
 
WRT to the Blessed Mother blessing objects:

It is said that the Blessed Mother blesses objects with her MOTHERLY blessing, and even in Medjugorje if you have an item blessed in this way by the Blessed Mother (if you and the item were present for an apparition) then it still has to be blessed by a Catholic priest as only a priest can give the blessing of Christ.

People may get confused about this, but I have plenty of medals that I freely give to people in need. These medals were present at an apparition of the Blessed Mother and were blessed by her with her MOTHERLY blessing. They have also been blessed by a priest.
 
I have a Rosary that was hand made by one of our nun’s. The cruxafix on it was blessed by Pope John Paul the Great. There isn’t enough money in this world that would get me to sell it. If that medal was truely blessed by the Virgin Mary I can’t imagine parting with it. However, I highly doubt that there was any medals that were that nicely made 2000 years ago. It just looked to machined made to me.
 
I really don’t blame eBay. First of all, the whole thing might be a hoax. PT Barnum said that there’s a sucker born every minute. Second of all, I doubt if the supposed blessing on the item will have much efficacy if commercialized like this.

I think Catholics should worry about real problems such as abortion, sex slavery, hunger, war, violent crime, white collar crime, etc. eBay is merely an online auction house of mostly good repute, but if some choose to engage in a consensual transaction that is in poor taste like this, so be it.
 
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AlanFromWichita:
Realistically, how can such a thing be verified? :confused:

Sometimes I just don’t get what it is about artificial relics that cause us to stray from the real Church who, of course, houses the authentic relics.

Alan
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Like the footprint of Jesus before His Ascension ?​

What about the heads of St.John the Baptist - which is the real one ? Or the feather from the wing of Gabriel ? Fajke relics were one of the most obvious weakness of the Church in the old days - that’s why they attracted so much derision. Even from Catholics - IIRC, Boccaccio has some fun with them here: stg.brown.edu/projects/decameron/engDecIndex.php

For a different attitude to relics and to much else, try the Golden Legend, just two generations earlier: fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/index.htm
 
if you find this offensive then watch this:
cgi.ebay.com/HOLY-HAIR-OF-JESUS-CHRIST-HIMSELF_W0QQitemZ220227605721QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1447QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

some guy is selling the hair of christ for a cheap buck, i never tought it could go so low
someone should stop that guy or maybe just tell everyone not to bid on it, because you won’t believe it someone already placed a bid on it

So i will tell all my folks they should ignore these guy and i would recommend you to do the same

greetings robert
 
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