Love incense at Mass

[OraLabora]

Here’s a trick I learned from UpUpAndAway: use a butter warmer/melter, put the incense in a small brass thurible (I bought mine in the gift shop at Sant’ Anselmo abbey in Rome), and light a fire under it. Use proper church incense. It smells pretty good, but won’t smoke up the house. I do the Liturgy of the Hours in a small oratory that has excellent acoustics, but the ventilation, not so much.

I did this for Vespers this evening. I do it for Lauds & Vespers of Sundays and solemnities. Sometimes I’ll use a coal and just a very tiny pinch of mild incense. If I use strong incense, my wife gets incensed, she hates “her” house getting smoked up.

I use incense from Prinknash abbey in the UK, our own abbey’s gift shop sells it and it smells very “churchy”!

 

[s.cono]

I have it. I’ve used it in my diffuser but it just doesn’t smell the same as church incense. I wonder if there are other scents that need to be added

You are absolutely right about the smell. I stopped by the candles and oils section at Walmart tonight to see what they had. I found three different frankincense scented oils. To me they all smelled like turpentine. My sense tells me the scent won’t improve very much when heated. Oh well.