incense

[catholicboy123]

I have recently bought a small censer, charcoal, and have just ordered incense. I would really like to know the proper way to burn the incense. How mutch incense to I put with the charcoal and things like that would be great. Thanks!

 

[laszlo]

With the censer you use to get a little spoon. Three spoonful of that. For the m,*** the prayers are:

Ab illo bene dicáris, in cujus honore cremáberis. Amen.
Be blessed by Him in whose honor thou art burnt. Amen.

Per intercessiónem beáti Michaélis Archángeli, stantis a dextris altáris incénsi, et ómnium electórum suórum, incénsum istud dignétur Dóminus bene dícere, et in odórem suavitátis accípere. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.
Et, accepto thuribulo a Diacono, incensat Oblata, modo in Rubricis generalibus præscripto, dicens:
Incénsum istud a te benedíctum ascéndat ad te, Dómine: et descéndat super nos misericórdia tua.
Deinde incensat Altare, dicens:
Ps. 140, 2-4.
Dirigátur, Dómine, orátio mea, sicut incénsum, in conspéctu tuo: elevátio mánuum meárum sacrifícium vespertínum. Pone, Dómine, custódiam ori meo, et óstium circumstántiæ lábiis meis: ut non declínet cor meum in verba malítiæ, ad excusándas excusatiónes in peccátis.
Dum reddit thuribulum Diacono, dicit:
Accéndat in nobis Dóminus ignem sui amóris, et flammam ætérnæ caritátis. Amen.

May the Lord, by the intercession of blessed Michael the Archangel, who standeth at the right side of the altar of incense, and of all His Elect, vouchsafe to bless this incense and receive it as an odor of sweetness: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Receiving the thurible from the deacon, the priest incenses the bread and the wine, while he says:
May this incense, which Thou hast blessed, O Lord, ascend to Thee, and may Thy mercy descend upon us.
Then he incenses the altar, saying:
Ps. 140, 2-4.
Let my prayer, O Lord, be directed as incense in Thy sight: the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and a door round about my lips. May my heart not incline to evil words, to make excuses for sins.
Giving the censor to the deacon, he says:
May the Lord enkindle within us the fire of His love, and the flame of everlasting charity. Amen.

 

[TimothyH]

I have recently bought a small censer, charcoal, and have just ordered incense. I would really like to know the proper way to burn the incense. How mutch incense to I put with the charcoal and things like that would be great. Thanks!

When I assist the deacon at novena and bennediction, we use two or three pieces of charcoal and two spoons of incense in a full size censer like the one’s used at Mass. The coals we use are disks about 1 inch round and a half inch thick. We light the charcoal with one of those long lighters used to light a barbeque grill about five or ten minutes before the bennediction.

The deacon will use the spoon from the boat (small covered container of incense used in the Mass) to poke the charcoals to make sure they are lit and then dump two spoons of incense on top of the coals. I like to use three coals to be sure that it is good and hot.

Make sure you don’t leave it unattended and that it is completely out. Some of our servers dump the coal outside the door to the vestry but I always bring a pitcher of water to douse them. I have this recurrening nightmare that I’ll be the one who is forever remembered as the guy who burnt down the church.

-Tim-

 

[tbtcom1213]

For use of incense in the house you need only use a small broken part of a disc of charcoal. To do this break the full disc into four parts and light one while saving the other three for later use. If you light a whole disc you’re guaranteed to stoke the entire room and/or house not that there’s anything wrong with holy smoke!

Use the incense to venerate your icons and while you’re praying.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

IMPORTANT

When burning charcoal always have good ventilation. A little burning charcoal can generate a lethal amount of CO [Carbon Monoxide].

 

[CatholicGuy22]

I just love the smell of incense in the morning!