Miraculous Medal question

[tdcjco]

Does someone who wears a MM need to be invested, like a scapular wearer? It was my understanding that the medal need only be blessed by a priest, and no further investiture was needed. I read online earlier today that there is an investiture rite. Just curious.
Thanks, Steve

 

[Peggy_in_Burien]

I didn’t even know that it had to be blessed.
I was given mine as a child, and have worn it since. Never heard of an investiture.

 

[Lasting_faith]

I wear one as well, and I think they are blessed before sold. I do have my home blesses each year, and that include all and everyone in it. And I got a Rosary from “my” priest, bought in Betlehem, and he told me it is blessed. Maybe someone can answer it more thoroughly.

 

[Ysara]

Personally I would never wear or use unblessed religious items … that includes medals and rosaries… I wear a MM and have done for years… But I never heard of an investiture… As long as it is blessed by a priest then I feel it is not just a piece of jewelry and it makes it more special for me and more important for me the blessing makes it a holy item to be used for religious purposes … Just a personal point … for me the blessing of religious items removes any monetary value to them… it makes all items the same spiritually which is important to me… Cheap rosaries and expensive ones become all the same when they are blessed ( This is just my personal opinion but I live by this and make sure that everything I give away to people is blessed before I give them )

 

[Dorothy]

I wear one as well, and I think they are blessed before sold. I do have my home blesses each year, and that include all and everyone in it. And I got a Rosary from “my” priest, bought in Betlehem, and he told me it is blessed. Maybe someone can answer it more thoroughly.

They are not blessed before they are sold.

Blessings are good because it is the prayer of the Church, and sets something apart as a sacramental.

 

[fred_conty]

Does someone who wears a MM need to be invested, like a scapular wearer? It was my understanding that the medal need only be blessed by a priest, and no further investiture was needed. I read online earlier today that there is an investiture rite. Just curious.
Thanks, Steve

There is no required investiture for the miraculous medal. Investiture means a ritual of prayer as it is put on you. But the medal should be blessed, that was part of what Mary wanted when she asked that everyone wear one.

So after you purchase the medal, any priest can just bless it right there and then when you ask him to bless it. This can be done after Sunday Mass if he happens to be standing at the door greeting people after Mass.

Here is some important info about the Miraculous Medal, one of Mother Teresa’s
favorites.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=553685&page=37
“My Japanese colleague did her Ph.D dissertation on Mother Teresa, so she actually went to meet her and live a few months with her. When my colleague returned, we were chatting, and I mentioned how I’d converted to Catholicism a few months earlier. She gave me the Miraculous Medal Mother Teresa had given her!!”

Mother Teresa thought so highly of it and she gave many of them to others.

The mother of Jesus spoke to sister Catherine Laboure in 1830 with these words:
“Have a medal struck… All who wear it will receive GREAT graces; they should wear it
around the neck. GRACES will ABOUND for persons who wear it with CONFIDENCE.”

Later Mary said, “… it must be given to the whole world and to every person.”

During this apparition, Mary’s hands had 3 rings on each finger. Each ring gave off
rays of colored light. A few rings did not. Mary said that the lights radiating from
the rings are graces that people ASK for. The rings that didn’t radiate she said
were graces not given because they were NOT asked for.

Have it blessed. Wear the medal in her honor at all times. When needed say,
“Mary, thank you for your gift to me, please help me now with those great graces you promised to obtain for those who ask.”

She promised and she is immaculate so she will keep her words, “GRACES will ABOUND for persons who wear it with CONFIDENCE.”

“The devotions we practice in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they be,
are very pleasing to her divine Son, …” St. Teresa of Jesus

The medal is called Miraculous, and the picture on it is “Our Lady of Grace”.

“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
[legionofmary.org/MiracMedal.html](http://www.legionofmary.org/MiracMedal.html)

 

[fred_conty]

Although an investiture is not required to wear the miraculous medal, there is a blessing and investiture if one wants it.

BLESSING AND INVESTITURE WITH SACRED MEDAL OF MARY IMMACULATE(Our Lady of Grace)

Commonly Known as the “Miraculous Medal”
(Formerly reserved to the Congregation of the Missions)
(Approved by the Congregation of Sacred Rites, April 19, 1895)
The priest who is to bless the sacred medal of the Immaculate Conception, vested in surplice and white stole, says:
P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.
P: The Lord be with you.
All: May He also be with you.
Let us pray.
Almighty and merciful God, who by the many appearances on earth of the Immaculate Virgin Mary were pleased to work miracles again and again for the salvation of souls; kindly pour out your blessing on this medal, so that all who devoutly wear it and reverence it may experience the patronage of Mary Immaculate and obtain mercy from you; through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
The priest sprinkles the medal with holy water, and presents it to the person, saying:

Take this holy medal; wear it with faith, and handle it with due devotion, so that the holy and immaculate Queen of heaven may protect and defend you. And as she is ever ready to renew her wondrous acts of kindness, may she obtain for you in her mercy whatever you humbly ask of God, so that both in life and in death you may rest happily in her motherly embrace.
All: Amen.
The priest continues:
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Our Father (the rest inaudibly until
P: And lead us not into temptation.
All: But deliver us from evil.
P: Queen conceived without original sin.
All: Pray for us.
P: Lord, heed my prayer.
All: And let my cry be heard by you.
P: The Lord be with you.
All: May He also be with you.
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus Christ, who willed that your Mother, the blessed Virgin Mary conceived without sin, should become illustrious through countless miracles; grant that we who ever seek her patronage may finally possess everlasting joys. We ask this of you who live and reign forever and ever.
All: Amen.

Source: sanctamissa.org/en/resour…us-orders.html

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