Question on Simony

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I recently bought an antique crucifix online.later, I started thinking that since, although it was not specified, it was likely blessed, I may have commited the sin of Simony. can anyone tell me whether or not this was Simony?
Pax Christi.
 
Wilhelm_Stoever said:
I recently bought an antique crucifix online.later, I started thinking that since, although it was not specified, it was likely blessed, I may have commited the sin of Simony. can anyone tell me whether or not this was Simony?
Pax Christi.
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no you did not commit this sin unless you attempted to sell the blessing (not the cross) to someone else
 
This could not be regarded as simony since you did not realise at the time you bought the crucifix that it may have been blessed - nor can you even be sure now that it had indeed been blessed. Like any other sin, you would have to have had prior knowledge for a sin to actually be committed.
 
Since you don’t know whether it was blessed or not you certainly didn’t commit a sin when you bought it. You didn’t pay or a blessing but for a crucifix.
 
well, I hope you all are right.

I did not know if it was blessed or not.
here was the description"I AM OFFERING FOR AUCTION THIS LARGE ANTIQUE PECTORAL SKULL AND CROSSBONES, INLAID EBONY IN NICKEL; SIGNED REAL EBONY GERMANY IN THE EBONY, CRUCIFIX. NEAR MINT CONDITION, MINOR AGE WEAR, PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER DESCRIPTION OF ITEM, BOUGHT FROM A LOCAL ESTATE SALE. OVERALL MEASURE 5 1/8" X 2 1/2", CIRCA EARLY TO MID 1900’S. "
 
It is simony if you are profiting from the fact that it is bless (for example, charging more for a blessed item than you would if it were not blessed).

By the way, you should have it blessed (again?). The blessing usually is intended for the person who owned/used the object when it was originally blessed, and does not normally extend to subsequent owners.
 
PhilotheaZ said:
It is simony if you are profiting from the fact that it is bless (for example, charging more for a blessed item than you would if it were not blessed).

By the way, you should have it blessed (again?). The blessing usually is intended for the person who owned/used the object when it was originally blessed, and does not normally extend to subsequent owners.
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I will take it with me on sunday and have Fr. bless it after Mass.
 
Wilhelm_Stoever said:
well, I hope you all are right.

I did not know if it was blessed or not.
here was the description"I AM OFFERING FOR AUCTION THIS LARGE ANTIQUE PECTORAL SKULL AND CROSSBONES, INLAID EBONY IN NICKEL; SIGNED REAL EBONY GERMANY IN THE EBONY, CRUCIFIX. NEAR MINT CONDITION, MINOR AGE WEAR, PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER DESCRIPTION OF ITEM, BOUGHT FROM A LOCAL ESTATE SALE. OVERALL MEASURE 5 1/8" X 2 1/2", CIRCA EARLY TO MID 1900’S. "
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Whether the item was blessed or not, the seller wasn’t encouraging you to pay for a blessing. No foul there.
 
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