Selling Blessed Items

[Souldier4Christ]

Hello,

My wife and I have been buying old Rosaries over EBAY. A friend of ours told us that buying items that have been blessed is wrong.

Is this true?

If it is true, can anyone give a reference from the Church that states this?

Thanks and God Bless,
-S4C

 

[Jennifer123]

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=50661&highlight=blessed+item

This should help you out… I guess you’d have to know the true value of the rosary to amke sure you weren’t paying “extra” for the blessing. Maybe a tip would be if the blessing was the key selling point then it may be inflated due to its status as blessed?

 

[Souldier4Christ]

Thank you much!

-S4C

 

[Annunciata]

Souldier4Christ:

Hello,

My wife and I have been buying old Rosaries over EBAY. A friend of ours told us that buying items that have been blessed is wrong.

Is this true?

If it is true, can anyone give a reference from the Church that states this?

Thanks and God Bless,
-S4C

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2121 *Simony *is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things.53 To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: "Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!"54 Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: "You received without pay, give without pay."55 It is impossible to appropriate to oneself spiritual goods and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in God. One can receive them only from him, without payment.