Using incense at home

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Is it appropriate to use incense like the kind used during Mass or Exposition in the home? Just wondering if we should keep it at church or not. (and if it is appropriate, anyone know where I can get some? I absolutely love the smell of incense! :D)
 
It is permitted to burn incense at home during prayers as well as before sacred images. It is not as common as lighting candles at home but nonetheless a venerable custom.

You will need charcoal disks, incense, a censer and a lot of ventilation.
Open the windows and keep a fan nearby for good measure.

Here is a one pound bag of frankincense. In the meantime your sacristan or priest may be able to give you a small sample of incense and charcoal.

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Ab illo benedicaris in cujus honore cremaberis. Be blessed in whose honour thou art burnt.

Psalm 141

1 Come quickly, Lord, at my cry for succour; do not let my appeal to thee go unheard.
2 Welcome as incense-smoke let my prayer rise up before thee; when I lift up my hands, be it acceptable as the evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, set a guard on my mouth, post a sentry before my lips;
4 do not turn my heart towards thoughts of evil, and deeds of treachery; never let me take part with the wrong-doers, and share the banquet with them.
5 Rather let some just man deal me heavy blows; this shall be his kindness to me; reprove me, and it shall be balm poured over me; such unction never will this head refuse. Their injuries I will still greet with a prayer …
6 … My words have won their hearts, a people that had seen their chieftains hurled down the rock-face,
7 a people whose bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, like seed when the earth is cloven into furrows.
8 To thee these eyes look, my Lord, my Master; in thee I trust; let not my life be forfeit.
9 Preserve me from the ambush they have laid for me, from the snares of the wrong-doers. 10 Into their own net, sinner upon sinner, may they fall, and I pass on in safety.
 
I use straight up basil, blessed by my priest. Cheap and smells good.
 
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