What objects can be blessed?

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I got an idea in my head today. My friend is getting confirmed and I found out a friend of mine has a 3d printer. So I looked up some designs and I could print a dove out and give to him as a gift. I was just wondering if I did this, could the object be blessed or not?
 
I understand that anything can be blessed as long it’s in going to be used for worship or the strengthening of your faith and family.
 
Cars are often blessed, and I’m even aware of weapons being blessed (not sure if it’s Catholic or Orthodox priests who did it, though), so I see no problem with having a 3D printed dove- a very Christian symbol- blessed.
 
This got me thinking. Houses are blessed, too. I wonder what is the largest object that has been blessed? I was thinking something huge like an aircraft carrier. Then I googled and found in the past that French ships were. . . Well, here is the quote

"French ship launchings and christenings in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were accompanied by unique rites closely resembling marriage and baptismal ceremonies. A godfather for the new ship presented a god-mother with a bouquet of flowers as both said the ship’s name. No bottle was broken, but a priest pronounced the vessel named and blessed it with holy water. "
 
Are consecrations (of countries) also considered blessings? If so, I think those would take the cake for “largest object blessed”.
 
Many things are blessed. I think getting the dove blessed is a great idea as long as it is used for worship.
 
Sure, it’s a great idea for a confirmation gift.

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Just make sure it’s water resistant if it involves sprinkling holy water on it. 3d printers use some type of silicon right?
 
Houses and hotels and restaurants and pets and cars and bicycles and boats and racehorses, those are just some of the things I have seen a priest bless.

I think your art would be a lovely gift and perfectly bless-able
 
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Are consecrations (of countries) also considered blessings?
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So… Russia; Russia must be the largest “thing” blessed.

[1984 Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary](http://1984 Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary)
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Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of when I responded (since I’d just been watching a movie about Fatima).
 
I don’t know of anything that inherently can’t be blessed provided it isn’t profane, Fr. Mike Schmitz spoke of blessing his sister’s tattoo.
 
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I don’t know of anything that inherently can’t be blessed provided it isn’t profane, Fr. Mike Schmitz spoke of blessing his sister’s tattoo.
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All things are blessed. The quality in all things that makes them sacramental is their capacity to reflect God.

Experiencing the Creator in the created is only limited by one’s attitude toward the created. We can experience sacrament when we choose to behold the creature as a reflection of its Creator.

Everything that God has created, everything that exists has some level of perfection, some level of goodness, some relationship to God’s perfect idea of it.

When we choose to perceive God’s creatures with reference to ourselves, we relegate them to the kingdom of the world seeing only their utility, measuring their worth only in the pleasure they may give. But if we accept the nudge of the Holy Spirit and behold them as a reflection of their Creator, we see their beauty and truth; we experience sacrament. We make the profane sacred.
 
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