When does your church use incense POLL

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you are welcome. HAHA

I’ll be doing this again, but this time – as one of the thurifers for the Corpus Christi procession in two weeks
 
Unfortunately, we almost never use incense at my parish. The previous priest said it was because of fire sprinklers, but our current pastor used it at Easter Vigil. So, I don’t know why we don’t use it more. We have historic artwork, but so do a lot of places which use incense. Historic California mission.
 
In my rural area they never use incense. It would be a treat if they ever did though.
 
Every Sunday at one mass, possibly also at the Spanish mass – not sure about that.

We have so many elderly parishioners with breathing issues, the pastor decided that we’d have only one mass that always uses incense.
 
I usually tell the boat bearer “Dude put a lot of incense during the consecration Father said he wants the whole sanctuary covered in smoke.” then the magic starts hahaha
 
In my parish it’s used during the Triduum and at all funerals. I don’t know about Christmas, I’m usually away at that time. I can’t recall it being used at other times.

We have Adoration and Benediction before every Mass and it’s not used then.
 
Oh, yes.

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Yup the fun happens when you see your pastor and the two MCs coughing and you open the lid so more smoke would come out! ahh I loved pentecost and last year’s christ the king procession! (He told us he wanted the whole sanctuary to be filled with smoke so don’t blame us xD)
 
My Parish uses incense at every adoration and benediction (last Friday of the month, should be more often in my opinion), Holy Week, Easter, and the Christmas midnight mass. Since I am the senior server at our parish I can sometimes convince our Priest for incense on Corpus Christi 😆😆😆
 
Here we’re allowed to use incense every sunday at 6pm mass (scratch lent(unless there’s a feast or solemnity)) but because the lack of us senior server and junior servers aren’t allowed to hold the cross, candle, boat or even thurible we can’t.
 
Every. Single. Service. 🙂

I joke with a close friend who is a Catholic priest that I bet I use more incense in a week than he uses all year. Apparently, he gets complaints with only light censing once around the altar. Me, I feel my job is not done well on a Great Censing if I can still see the back of the church from the iconostasis when complete.

A joke/exaggeration of course, but closer to the truth then some would imagine. Particularly on the feasts of the Mother of God where I tend to use rose incense…I love rose incense.

Fr. Dcn. John
 
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Lenten incense usually smells pretty bad.

Is this an EF thing? Do y’all use different smoke for Lent?"

I imagine it is a personal preference of the celebrant. In my parish, we tend to change incense based upon the liturgical season, but this is not per rubrics. I use Myrrh during Holy Week, Rose for the Mother of God, Orange Flower during the Paschal season, a traditional scent during “ordinary time” (we Orthodox don’t call it that), and one called “Old Church” during Nativity Fast (Advent), and the Great Fast (Lent). It smells just like the name…very solemn. Doing this we give our parishioners not only a visual cue (vestments etc.) to the church season but they have come to also associate certain smells as well.

Fr. Dcn. John
 
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Lol…I am Orthodox.

Father Deacon John. In the East, Deacons are referred to as “Father” or “Father Deacon”. Just a small quirk between the East and West.

Fr. Dcn. John
 
Father Deacon, you’ve been promoted since you joined CAF.🤣 Your username says that you’re a reader.
 
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