Is this a sacrilege?

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Poor old St. Joseph. First, he has to live out the rest of his life with a Virgin and a Child Who can do no wrong. Then he has to put up with idiots…/QUOTE]

I can’t think of St. Joseph as “poor” when he lived with the two most perfect human beings that ever lived. Our vision of “good” is tainted when we think that “good people” can be annoying…they can’t be when they are perfect. I imagine he was “perfectly” happy with his lot.
 
Listen, gang, I think we’re getting off target a bit here.
What gets me is, not so much that people think that burying a statue of St. Joseph will get their houses sold, but that regular KITS are being marketed, with statues suitable for burying, plus instructions and prayers to be said in order to guarantee results. This is no longer a private devotion, but a magic formula.
 
Oh please, lets not start it up again,
We all have huge different opinions on this subject and instead of bringing out the best in us as christians it seems to bring out the worst and that is really sad. 😦
 
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I have seen this kits in Catholic stores! This is a very old tradition.

'thann
Old as it may be, it’s still superstitious. At best.
Burying a statue upside down smacks more of voodoo that the worship of Our Lord, or asking a particular saint’s intercession.
 
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Aurelia:
Listen, gang, I think we’re getting off target a bit here.
What gets me is, not so much that people think that burying a statue of St. Joseph will get their houses sold, but that regular KITS are being marketed, with statues suitable for burying, plus instructions and prayers to be said in order to guarantee results. This is no longer a private devotion, but a magic formula.
I admit that buying a kit is kinda weird. Whatever happened to good old Yankee ingenuity?
 
Well, for my family it was a private devotion and not some voo doo ceremony. I would bet that its half and half, half the people are using it incorrectly and half are using it correctly as St.Joseph would probably have liked.
Can we at least admit to that? Anything can be used wrong, I know some people wear Rosary beads as a necklace because they think they are pretty but they don’t pray the rosary or really have any respect at all for it, all things can be abused but not all people use them that way and my family certainly did not.
 
Does anybody remember the days when you had a statue of a saint on your cars dashboard, supposedly to keep you safe while driving? Was that sacrilege? Besides, I never heard of burying statues. I must be living under a rock or something. ;May God bless everybody.
 
My grandfather always had a St. Christopher on the dash growing up. At least until Chris lost his feast day. 😉
 
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