Spiritual Bouquets

[LiveforChrist]

Hey Everyone!

I am think about doing a spiritual bouquet for my parish priest. I am just wondering what all I can include in it?

Thanks and God Bless!

LiveForChrist

 

[admonsta]

My parents used to do these - They would join with a group of friends and all would do rosaries, ejaculations, Masses, Hail Maries, Our Fathers, good works… anything prayerful went in, each prayer said and each work done for the benefit of the bouquet recipient. Then they would write each one on a little piece of paper, stick it on a wire and bunch them together and present it to the recipient.

 

[fin]

It’s wonderful that you’re offering a spiritual bouquet for your priest. Spiritual bouquets usually include Masses, Holy Communions, Holy Hours or Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, fasting, prayers you have said like Our Father, Hail Mary,

 

[Bix]

What is a spiritual bouquet??? I want one!

Wait, first, what is it?

 

[maryjk]

My parents once received a card telling then that a family had prayed the rosary for them.

Is that what you are talking about?

 

[midori]

A spiritual bouquet is when one person, or a group of people, perform devotional acts for the benefit of someone else.

A priest friend passed away in the 90’s, and in his belongings, he still had a framed paper which recounted the different devotional acts the schoolkids at the parish school had performed for him back in 1952. It was enormously sweet to see how much it had meant to him that he had kept it for 40 years or more. The categories on his included Masses, Communions, Rosaries, Visits (praying in front of the tabernacle? Adoration in front of the monstrance?), and Aspirations. I might upload a pic sometime…

After we found it, we organized our Sunday School classes to do one for our current priest. Everyone kept index cards where they tallied up how many of X, Y, and Z they performed for him over the course of a month or so, and then we totaled them up at the end of the period and made a nice little framed thing for him. I do remember some of the Sunday School kids being less than honest with their tallies.

 

[LiveforChrist]

Thank you for the answers. I will keep them all in mind.