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user1234
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My family owns a small thurible and some incense. I would love to burn some to incense the house, but I know the incense isn’t blessed, and I don’t know if a lay person is allowed to incense anything.
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OraLabora
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You can incense away if you want. Even the local abbey’s gift shop sells incense.
I tried to burn it in my small oratory but the ventilation is terrible and I was practically choking and couldn’t chant the Liturgy of the Hours.
Plus mother abbess (my wife
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user1234
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If the incense isn’t blessed, is it still allowed? I mean the incense is still symbolic, so can it still be used?
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OraLabora
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Relax, this is not something regulated. You can have it blessed if you want but there are no Church rules on burning incense in the home AFAIK.
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user1234
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Thanks! I’ll try to relax!
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Red_James
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Because your using incense at home for private prayer I assume, there are no rules, so you can burn away and incense particular objects such as a crucifix that you pray to. Only the Liturgy of the Hours has specific rules. Aside from that, feel free to burn away and incense your crucifix all day.
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ProVobis
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No restrictions whatsoever. They sell incense sticks of many nice aromas.
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TimothyH
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She is a wise and loving abbess.Plus mother abbess (my wife
It stinks up the house, stains the walls, gives the cat lung cancer, sets off the smoke detectors, etc.
As the thurifer for the weekly benediction, I breathe enough incense at Church. The aroma of a broiled Porterhouse or sauteing garlic is my kind of incense for the home.
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ProVobis
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I can’t say I blame you. I ended up donating my censor to a Lutheran church which had some use for it. To a fellow poster, actually.She is a wise and loving abbess.
It stinks up the house, stains the walls, gives the cat lung cancer, sets off the smoke detectors, etc.
As the thurifer for the weekly benediction, I breathe enough incense at Church. The aroma of a broiled Porterhouse or sauteing garlic is my kind of incense for the home.
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OraLabora
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Rib steak for me, nicely spiced. Except the Mother Abbess has put the kibosh on that too. It’s only a rare treat now. Diabetes, cholesterol, arteries, carcinogens, blablabla. Sometimes having a wife who is a doctor can put a damper on your fun…The aroma of a broiled Porterhouse or sauteing garlic is my kind of incense for the home.
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GoGoDiego
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For the celebrations of the LOTH, no problem, unless if you have a properly blessed oratory, then a priest or deacon should do the incensing. In private prayer, nothing wrong with that too.
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OraLabora
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I have a tiny oratory in my home that I used for the LOTH, and I think you can see why I don’t like to use incense in it, there’s no place for the smoke to go besides my lungs.
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I know a Benedictine nun at a women’s abbey that is also the sacristan for many decades and developed lung cancer. She never smoked in her life, so it is surmised that the incense is what got to her.
So use sparingly, and in a well-ventilated area.
I don’t think, if I had my oratory blessed, that it would preclude the use of non-blessed incense…
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GoGoDiego
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Nice. Yeah. It is really hard to burn incense there.
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Chatter163
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If you have smoke detectors in the home (and nowadays, most people do), incense burned in a thurible can easily set off the alarm. When our priests blessed our home each year for Epiphany, they used incense. We covered the smoke detectors with plastic wrap in preparation for the visits. But that would be a pain to do on a regular basis.
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PazzoGrande
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You can just get it blessed by a priest after Mass. I did that.
It’s nice but not necessary.
It’s nice but not necessary.
I use a small glass candleholder (heat-resistant), break the charcoal into quarters and burn a little as one large grain or a small pinch of smaller ones to keep the smoke under control. Never had a problem with the smoke detectors.
A full-on thurible is probably too much for the home. I got my incense from Greece, so my basement always has this nice Orthodox-church smell after I’m done with my Sunday prayers (I don’t burn on weekdays).
A full-on thurible is probably too much for the home. I got my incense from Greece, so my basement always has this nice Orthodox-church smell after I’m done with my Sunday prayers (I don’t burn on weekdays).
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tlfbaret
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Thank you.
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