How to bless your home with Epiphany chalk

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Each year around the feast of the Epiphany many parishes throughout the world participate in an annual blessing of chalk. It is an ancient tradition that not only places God at the entrance of your home, it places your entire family under his protection.

 
There’s also these others-
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Epiphany House Blessing Question Traditional Catholicism
3 more links - some shorter blessings and some with more than one. Also remember to change the ‘year’ you write when following these instruction
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The Chalking of the Doors: An Epiphany Tradition Explained Catholic Prayer: Blessing of the Home on Epiphany <- also includes a link which opens a pdf file for a Epiphany Home Blessing Ceremony Chalking the Door: An Epiphany House Blessing
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I have a thread going about this already but it is nice to see another and see people discussing this.

On the thread I linked, a Priest named Father David says we do not bless with the chalk as laity, we invoke a“ prayer based on the blessing ritual”

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What to do with blessed chalk on Epiphany Liturgy and Sacraments
On Epiphany my family will do a traditional door blessing for the first time using blessed chalk. I read elsewhere on an old thread on this forum that you shouldn’t throw out the chalk after using it – that you should bury it or return it the parish. What if I plan to use it next Epiphany? Can I just store the chalk away?
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My biggest problem was finding a church handing out blessed chalk. I have wanted to do this for several years, but for some reason none of the 20 or so Catholic churches within a 15-mile radius of my area provide blessed chalk or do chalk blessings. Some of them even printed the instructions for how to mark your house in their bulletin but left out the part about the chalk needing to be blessed. The Traditional parish wasn’t even doing chalk blessing, only Epiphany water blessing today.

In the end I was left with two options: drive 18 miles to a parish that was giving out little sticks of pre-blessed chalk and a bottle of holy water with instructions, or drive over an hour to the big national Polish shrine that was doing a great big blessing ritual with the chalk. I went for the shorter drive as I didn’t have time for the long drive today. Next year if I’m around here I will go to the Polish shrine.

It really annoys me that the churches around here ignore this custom, especially since there were two nearby Episcopal churches and a Polish National Catholic Church (not in communion with Rome) blessing chalk today.
 
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Same here. Our parish stopped doing this a couple years ago. Our door still says 2018 and we had to use the leftover chalk from the year before for that one! I don’t know where to get the blessed chalk. How much time does it take to bless some chalk? I told my husband to take the new priest some chalk and ask him to bless it for us. (I assume it’s still okay if it isn’t done on Epiphany?) I don’t think he’s going to do it though. Maybe I could ask one of the kids to take some up and ask him? It’s hard to say "no’ to a cute kid, right? Put some of that “pester power” to good use! I guess I could call around and see if any of my friends got some and will let us use the stub?
 
I can’t imagine why your priest wouldn’t bless some chalk for you for this purpose. If he balks, I’d check with another parish. Most priests are pretty good about doing blessings, it just would have required me to ask about this a few weeks ago before they get all busy at Christmas, and of course I forgot about it till the night before Epiphany and started googling around for a parish offering blessed chalk. I don’t think it has to be blessed exactly on Epiphany.

I’m pretty sure a traditional parish would bless the chalk for you even if they weren’t doing a special blessing for Epiphany. The one here says if you want something blessed just drop it at the parish office in a baggie with your name and pick it up the next week.
 
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There’s also these others-

3 more links - some shorter blessings and some with more than one. Also remember to change the ‘year’ you write when following these instruction wink The Chalking of the Doors: An Epiphany Tradition Explained Catholic Prayer: Blessing of the Home on Epiphany ← also includes a link which opens a pdf file for a Epiphany Home Blessing Ceremony Chalking the Door: An Epiphany House Blessing
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If you can, also obtain some Epiphany Water for blessing your house. A diocesan exorcist recently told me of its great efficacy, but I missed the service of blessing this year (the liturgy of blessing the water lasts about 40 minutes ) however here is a video of a recent blessing service at another church.

 
PM me, I will send you some blessed chalk (one stick lasts forever!!)
 
Thank you, but I did obtain some yesterday from the parish 18 miles away, so I’m good for a couple years at least. Like I said, next year I can plan a visit to the Polish shrine or drop some chalk off with the FSSP priests for a blessing earlier in December.

Perhaps Allegra would like to take you up on your offer though as she is having a hard time getting chalk.
 
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Allegra said:
I told my husband to take the new priest some chalk and ask him to bless it for us.
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This is literally what I did. The priest looked at my confused, but I quickly explained and then he did it.
 
Yes, thankfully my parish had both and Father said it took about an hour for the powerful prayers and exorcism of the water & salt, and blessing the chalk too. There were bottles, and chalk and even printed instructions on how to use these with the appropriate prayers with them. I am indeed blessed in my parish.
 
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