What to do with old statues, religious books etc? I can't throw them out!

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I have old statues, medals, prayer cards, holy water battles etc that I no longer need. I can’t bring myself to throw them out as I’m afraid it’s a sin. They have been accumulating for years.
My local church put a sign up a year ago asking the parishioners not to donate their second hand religious objects to the church as it was just clutter. What do you do? Do you have it in you to throw an unused prayer card in the bin?
 
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There are places that will take those items and send them where they are needed. I would recommend that you check outside your parish church, such as checking with local religious orders who might be able to send them to the missions or somewhere they’d be appreciated, where people really do not have statues or holy cards and would like them.

Your parish probably had a lot of parishioners cleaning out their houses and dumping stuff on the church and it was just too much for them to handle.
 
Are any of these items blessed? If not, then there is no sin in throwing them out if they are old and worn.

I know how you feel. I am averse to throwing away anything that has a holy image or a verse of Scripture on it. I am having to get over it as we have lots of people who drop off boxes of these things at the parish and they all seem to end up in my office. Some of the items are clean, and I’m very happy to put them to use. Others are worn and sometimes broken, and so have to be discarded.
 
My worn and broken prayer cards,etc I quickly put in the woodstove and say a little prayer .It hurts a little to part with them which is a bit of the reason I wish to have fewer but value them and protect them better .My local St Vincent de Paul secondhand shop resells some of the books and bits and pieces .
 
If they are Blessed objects, burn or bury them.

If they are not blessed, you can throw them away.
 
Like blessed palms can be reused for the following Lent; but Christmas cards, say bought at Hallmark can be thrown.
 
If blessed anything flammable is to be burnt and the ashes buried. (My parish secretary takes these items to be burnt, and once burnt they are then used for the ashes at Ash Wednesday the following year).

If blessed and non-flammable, they are to be broken up into pieces which make them unrecognizable for what they are and then these pieces buried.

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Disposing of Blessed Objects by Fr William Saunders
 
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If they’re not in bad shape, donate them! While perhaps you do not need them anymore, maybe someone else does.
 
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