third class relics

[Monica4316]

For those here who own third class relics… where do you keep them? and how should they be venerated?

thank you

 

[Evan]

I want to know this too.

We have 3 2nd class relics. From 2 saints and a blessed.

Also a 3rd class relic from one of the saints.

 

[JM3]

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=440851

 

[TempleofTheSoul]

Since 3rd class relics are those that have been touched to a first class relic, you can keep them in a little keepsake box on the table where you pray or get a picture frame and keep the relics encased in it so that you can have it on display and touch it/kiss it anytime you like.

I know I keep my 3rd class relics in a little carrying case where I keep my rosary and just kiss the whole case whenever I remember to. Whenever I pray to a particular saint whose relic I have I just touch the relic directly and say whatever I need to say at the time.

There are no set rituals on how to venerate relics. As long as you show them proper honor then you will be just fine. I happen to also have 2 first class relics…one of St. Teresa of Avila and another of Blessed Seelos. I keep each of the relics on a chain that I wrap around the neck of the statues of the Christ Child and Blessed Seelos.

You could invest in a reliquary for the relics but I don’t see it as being a necessity.

God bless

 

[FraLeones]

i have about 10 relics of saints… i put them in our altar

 

[couponfit]

For those here who own third class relics… where do you keep them? and how should they be venerated?

thank you

Mine is around my neck. I draw reminder , inspiration, and it increase my connection. To me the icon is like having a locket of my daughters hair. I do not think I even venerate the relic but I venerate with the relic because the connection helps to tie my faith into a person or event that deep.y affects me or deeply awakens me.

 

[jimrob]

Since 3rd class relics are those that have been touched to a first class relic

We have two first class relics which come out of the church safe to be venerated at appropriate times. Since I’m usually the one that gets them out, I must be a third class relic. And there I was thinking I was only an ancient monument

 

[pat_mc_1]

I placed bl.jpii relic in a frame when he was beatified and I have one of archbishop sheen which I keep in s piece of linen that was used to wipe chrism off my head on my confirmation.

 

[browebmaster]

I would just like to clarify:
When somebody touches something to a 1st class relic then it becomes a 3rd class relic, right? What if somebody touches something to the reliquary containing the 1st class relic; does that make it a relic too?

 

[TempleofTheSoul]

I would just like to clarify:
When somebody touches something to a 1st class relic then it becomes a 3rd class relic, right? What if somebody touches something to the reliquary containing the 1st class relic; does that make it a relic too?

Yes, it becomes a first class relic. Even if you touch it to the reliquary it still becomes a 3rd class relic. I use to think that you had to touch the item directly to the bones or skin of the saint but I was mistaken.

In speaking recently with a gentleman who has dedicated his whole life to promoting the veneration of relics, he said that all that was necessary to make something a first class relic was to touch the item you are looking to make a 3rd class relic to the reliquary or tomb of the saint.

God bless

 

[Ohana]

I have a third class relic (a cloth piece) that I keep in a tiny ziplock and keep pinned in my rosary case = a silk bag. I don’t open it often because I do not want to soil it or allow it to get dirty. I tend to carry it with me in my purse.

 

[Evan]

Yes, it becomes a first class relic. Even if you touch it to the reliquary it still becomes a 3rd class relic. I use to think that you had to touch the item directly to the bones or skin of the saint but I was mistaken.

In speaking recently with a gentleman who has dedicated his whole life to promoting the veneration of relics, he said that all that was necessary to make something a first class relic was to touch the item you are looking to make a 3rd class relic to the reliquary or tomb of the saint.

God bless

Nothing can become a 1st class relic after beatification. When a person is beatified certain objects become 1st class relics at that time. Their body and parts thereof.

2nd class are things they used while alive (clothes, rosaries, etc)

Things can become 3rd class relics by being touched to 1st class relics. I don’t know if they become such by touching a 3rd class relic like a reliquary or tomb.