Priests do not bless sacramentals?

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Go to a weekday Mass and corner him afterwards. You can bring the items with you and ask him to bless them and see what he says.
 
Don’t know if its been suggested yet but if your Parish has a Deacon, the Deacon can bless your rosaries for you as well.
 
bcprincess said:
The Pope has been known to bless the odd sacramental, maybe the priest should nip round and tell him he’s naughty :highprayer::slapfight:
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Amen to that. I regularly use a Rosary that Pope John Paul II blessed.

Pretty strange that the Priest wouldn’t make an appointment to see one of the members of his flock. Something is definitely not adding up here.

DGB
 
Please, simply speak to your priest in person before taking any other actions which could create problems for him or the woman on the phone. Do you know she was the secretary? Is she new? Maybe several things could have been going on and someone simply answered incorrectly without knowing. We have all had difficult days at work when we haven’t handled things as properly as we should have… The priest is there to help and I’m sure it’s a misunderstanding or perhaps more was going on at the moment than she was comfortable saying and mispoke by accident. I would hate to think of someone creating an issue where I have worked in the past without giving me the opportunity to speak.

You could always write a little note or card and slide it under his office door… 🙂
 
bcprincess said:
The Pope has been known to bless the odd sacramental, maybe the priest should nip round and tell him he’s naughty :highprayer::slapfight:
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I can vouch for that. Our family was fortunate enough to get tickets to the Papal Mass in Wash DC.

It was announced prior that, at the end of Mass, the Pope would bless sacramentals that people had brough for such purposes.

And, and the end of Mass, the Pope did announce that it was his intention to now bless any sacramentals that the people had brought. We had brought along a bag of Miraculous Medals, and several rosaries, and we held them forth while His Holiness gave the blessing.

We gave the medals to friends and fellow parishioners, and the rosaries to family members.
 
Luvtosew said:
Since we are Christians can’t we just bless our own stuff, like say, Lord bless my rosary,
I mean were allowed to baptist in an emergency.
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It has everything to do with authority. A person, who is not ordained validly through the laying on of hands by a validly consecrated bishop, has no authority to confer blessings upon anything or anyone. As a parent one could bless their children and should because they have authority by God over them.

Christianity is much more than saying before others that one has taken Jesus as their Lord and savior. It is obedience and dedication; it is dying to self and believing in the Gospel, all of it; even the parts that are hard like the authority given to the Apostles and their successors by Jesus Himself.

History from the very beginning shows this to be true and is in accord with Scripture.

To the OP, I believe there is more to the story than is written here. It is hard for me to believe that the rectory staff, or the parish priest know nothing of the normal process of blessing sacramentals. So without any further help by the OP, I would wait to pass judgment on the priest or staff.
 
In a similar story, I was visiting the Rectory of my parish once. A lady came up and asked the receptionist to see a priest to have something blessed. The receptionist said she can just submerge it in the holy water inside the church since the priest blesses that anyway.

Either the receptionist was wrong or the priest was and gave him instructions to say that whenever people come to have something blessed (I know both and either scenario is possible based on how I see them do their jobs), because as far as I know, putting holy water on something doesn’t bless it. Would be nice if it did.
 
opus101 said:
No, it’s not normal at all ! I would write to the Bishop’s office and relate the situation, and ask if another priest near you would be available for such things! That way, you’ll end up getting your things blessed, and the priest will not be getting away with this attitude.

The priest is going against Church teaching when he says that that blessing of objects is a superstition.

A blessed object carries with it the prayer of the Church, and is efficacious when used properly, with faith.
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Yes, this is outrageously wrong and not at all the Church’s teaching (neither now or at any other time)! :eek: :rolleyes:

Of course, all correction should be done in prudence and charity, but this should definitely be brought to the attention of the bishop - as long as you can verify that the priest really actually instructed the secretary to say and do this in reaction to your request.
 
P.S. The Pope himself blesses people’s religious articles (rosaries, medals, crucifixes) at the end of his public audiences every week in Rome…

I have never had a priest refuse to bless sacramentals, but I do know that this kind of completely wrong thinking is out there. Very sad and disconcerting.
 
Bix said:
You could always write a little note or card and slide it under his office door… 🙂
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What makes you think there is any parish access to the pastor’s office door? To my mind, that is the bigger issue here. The OP needs to hear this from the priest’s mouth, because the pastor deserves a chance to address this problem with his secretary himself, but if what this parish secretary is saying to his parishioners is not wildly off-base from what this pastor says to the OP himself–and I do mean wildly off-base–there is a big problem in that parish. If the priest doesn’t think there is a big problem with the secretary, that is itself a big problem.

Even if the pastor claims he has said no such thing, I find it highly odd that a secretary or receptionist would make up stuff like “the priest did not bless people’s personal belongings because it constituted a superstition and that there was no point” or “he was not taking private appointments. She said I could come to reconciliation if I needed to speak with him”. If the pastor doesn’t find it outrageous that anyone in the parish could possibly be given the impression that these things were remotely true, that would be a red flag for me. After all, if he were to go back to the office and tell her, “Yes, this is my policy, but for crying out loud, don’t tell the parishioners that!”, then there is still a very big problem. That kind of outcome is hardly out of the realm of possibility.
 
Your post is rambling, so forgive me if I’m not addressing the proper point you were attempting to post.

I have no idea how this particular parish is set up, but I’ve left a thank you card at two parishes for priests when they were not in the office. I asked the woman at the desk if I could leave a card under the door at one parish. The other parish had access to slip a note under his door.

I simply stated earlier that the OP should speak with the priest before jumping to conclusions or calling someone over his head and behaving like a ill tempered two year old. That’s all.
 
gh4 said:
Ok, I’m bothered MORE by the fact that the OP can’t make an appointment to see her priest. I thought all priests were available to speak with if you made an appointment. If this priest won’t talk to the OP privately and won’t bless items like rosaries or crucifixes then there’s a problem.
I think she should approach him after mass or maybe before mass. And if he than confirms what the secretary told her, then I would contact the bishop.
Our priest will bless things that don’t take anything real special after mass on Saturdays or Sundays.
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take it with a BIG block of salt…Call up the OP’s other threads and read them…Then see if you still feel bothered…I know I don’t. Because there’s no reason to believe this is any more real than the other threads.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
take it with a BIG block of salt…Call up the OP’s other threads and read them…Then see if you still feel bothered…I know I don’t. Because there’s no reason to believe this is any more real than the other threads.
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How do we know you are who you say you are? There is something pretty suspicious about calling yourself the real Juliane.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
take it with a BIG block of salt…Call up the OP’s other threads and read them…Then see if you still feel bothered…I know I don’t. Because there’s no reason to believe this is any more real than the other threads.
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MomandWife, do you care to respond?

Because if not, maybe it’s better if we all abandon this thread. We’d all be wasting our time.
 
PazzoGrande said:
MomandWife, do you care to respond?

Because if not, maybe it’s better if we all abandon this thread. We’d all be wasting our time.
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What sort of response do you expect? How can anyone prove they are who they say or that their posts are true?
 
floresco said:
What sort of response do you expect? How can anyone prove they are who they say or that their posts are true?
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I didn’t ask for proof. Even a follow up acknowledgement is good. Instead the person put up a couple strange, controversial posts with odd stories then never came online again. So something, *anything *making it worthwhile for us to even answer.
 
floresco said:
How do we know you are who you say you are? There is something pretty suspicious about calling yourself the real Juliane.
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:rolleyes::rotfl:

Yeah but I don’t start threads just to stir up emotions.

I started using that name because whenever I try to sign up in a forum with just Juliane, someone already has it. But then I never run across such a user again!

😛
 
Bix said:
I have no idea how this particular parish is set up, but I’ve left a thank you card at two parishes for priests when they were not in the office.
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No matter how a parish is set up, even if there are guard dogs and barbed wire between you and the priest, in most countries there is the miracle of the postal system 👍 and if you want to make sure that the secretary keeps here hands of it just mark it private and confidential.
 
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