Palm

[Matthias123]

While cleaning my room today, I found a palm from a Palm Sunday under my dresser. It had been there for some time, and it is quite dirty under my dresser. I think this was quite careless on my part. In the past I guess I didn’t either fully grasp the importance on this blessed object, or I ignored it. What concerns me is the fact that I probably have more lying around, but I have no idea where they are.

I understand now this is a blessed object and should be treated with the utmost respect.

I was planning to visit the Blessed Sacrament tonight. Is this something that I should confess before going?

Also, should I burn the palm now? Or find a safe place to put it until ash Wednesday? I am concerned it will get lost again.

I currently have it in a glass vase on my dresser. Hopefully it will stay put.

 

[Leopard]

…I understand now this is a blessed object and should be treated with the utmost respect.

I was planning to visit the Blessed Sacrament tonight. Is this something that I should confess before going?

Also, should I burn the palm now? Or find a safe place to put it until ash Wednesday? I am concerned it will get lost again.

I currently have it in a glass vase on my dresser. Hopefully it will stay put.

Sacramentals should be treated with respect, but you shouldn’t obsess about this. It is not as though this were a consecrated Host, which we should truly treat with the utmost respect. You may confess this if it will make you feel better about it, but unless you intended to treat this sacramental in a disrespectful manner as a way of disrespecting Christ or His Church, I doubt any priest would advise you that this was even a venial sin. Things fall behind dressers all the time.

It sounds like you have handled this situation in an appropriate, responsible manner since it has come to your attention. You don’t need to wait for Ash Wednesday to burn it unless you want to.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

It sounds like carelessness rather than deliberate intent. It would be a venial sin at worst; so you could confess it, but not mandatory.

Burn it now. Then breakup and scatter the ashes someplace where they won’t get walked on.