Catholic question?

Question

When you get a necklace with a medal of a saint on it, why do you have a priest bless the medal?

Answer 1

When a priest blesses it, it becomes a sacramental...that means it is something that reminds us of our call to be holy.

Answer 2

You do not have to have the medal blessed. It is optional.

A blessed medal is a sacramental.

Then taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. (Luke 9:16)

Sacramentals are sacred signs that help us live holy lives. Although they do not produce sanctifying grace

Sacramentals include blessings of persons, meals, objects (including water), and places.

The priest blesses the congregation during Mass.

Christians bless their meals. "Bless us O Lord and these thy gifts, ..."

Priests bless water, animals, ships, homes, and even automobiles. "God bless this home and all those who enter here."

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1667 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt4.htm#art1

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

same situation:
a few days after i was born, my parents asked the priest to bless me (baptize).... in the Glorious name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

For our house/car/items blessed by a priest. We just want some things blessed by His Glorious name. It's a prerogative. Not all Catholics would do that.

What's the point of your question? Do you seek enlightenment or do you seek to humiliate? What result did you get?

Answer 4

We can have our house blessed, your car blessed, and a Rosary or Necklace blessed. It is to help lead you to God through Jesus, NOT through that item.

We do not worship the item, we do not worship our house even though we can have it blessed, we do not worship our Blessed mother Mary, even though we honor her.

Read your bible, it says "all generations shall call you blessed" Referring to Mary.

Hope this helps.

Peace!

Answer 5

No read your bible., when a lady says Mary is blessed, Jesus says, blessed is he who hears the word of God and obeys it

not blessed is he who calls other people blessed

gee...

Why do you say the creed

it was invcented by constantine
who became pope after defeating a roman legion

thy shalt not kill

and then he kiled his sisters husband who was the general of that legion,

and then he siad the creed

nice one, still want to follow him

and then he changed the day of worship from a saturday to the sunday, just like the book of revelations said it would

and the person that does that is given a number for a name

666

vicarius fili deii

representative of the son of god

worship me in place of christ

come out of babylon....she has already fallen

Answer 6

Because catholics are into hoodoo mumbo jumbo. There are many parallels catholicism and witchcraft.

Answer 7

Strictly liturgical and restricted sense, blessing may be described as a rite, consisting of a ceremony and prayers performed in the name and with the authority of the Church by a duly qualified minister, by which persons or things are sanctified as dedicated to Divine service, or by which certain marks of Divine favour are invoked upon them:
I. Antiquity;
II. Minister;
III. Objects;
IV. Efficacy; and
V. Rite employed in administering.



I. ANTIQUITY
The custom of giving blessings goes back to the very earliest times. In the morning of Creation, on the completion of each day's work, God blessed the living creatures that came from His hands, bidding them increase and multiply and fill the earth (Gen. i-ii). When Noah emerged from the Ark, he received God's benediction (Genesis 9:1), and this heritage he transmitted through his sons, Sem and Japheth, to posterity. The pages of the Old Testament testify abundantly to the great extent to which the practice of blessing prevailed in the patriarchal ages. The head of each tribe and family seemed to be privileged to bestow it with a special unction and fruitfulness, and the priests at the express direction of God were wont to administer it to the people. "Thus shall you bless the children of Israel. . . and the Lord will turn His countenance and give them peace" (Numbers 6:23-26). That great value was attributed to blessings is seen from the strategy adopted by Rebecca to secure Jacob's blessing for her favourite son. In general estimation it was regarded as a mark of Divine complacency and as a sure way to secure God's benevolence, peace, and protection. The New Dispensation saw the adoption of this rite by Our Divine Lord and His Apostles, and so, elevated, ennobled, and consecrated by such high and holy usage, it came at a very early stage in the Church's history to assume definite and concrete shape as the chief among her sacramentals.





Blessings for things
(a) In addition to the blessings for articles destined for altar purposes, the Roman Ritual has formulæ for blessing crosses, images of Our Lord, of the Blessed Virgin and saints, church organs, processional banners, new bells for church uses and for other purposes, dress and cinctures worn in honour of Our Lady and of other saints, monstrances, reliquaries, vessels for Holy Oils, church ornaments, clerical habits, medals, pictures, and crosses for the Stations, rosaries of all the recognized kinds, water, candles, the Trisagion of the Holy Trinity, the different scapulars of Our Lady, of Our Lord, of the Blessed Trinity, of St. Joseph, St. Michael the Archangel, and other saints.

(b) The following articles of food have benedictions assigned to them: paschal lamb, eggs, oil, wine, lard, cheese, butter, dripping, salt, and water which is used as antidote to rabies. There is also a form for everything that may be eaten. The fruits of the earth, such as grapes, corn, and the garnered harvest, seeds that are put into the earth, wine and the vintage, herbs and grasses may all in a fitting and appropriate language be "sanctified by the word of God and prayer".

(c) The lower animals which minister to the reasonable requirements of the human family may have blessings invoked upon them in order that the measure of their usefulness may be increased. Thus, birds of the air, beasts of the field, bees that afford such examples of industry to man, horses and oxen broken to the yoke, and. other beasts of burden are included in the formularies of the Ritual. The Creator is invoked to grant to the brute strength and health to bear his burthen and, if attacked by sickness or plague, to obtain deliverance.

(d) The Ritual has blessings for houses and schools and for the laying of their foundation stones; for stables for the lower animals and every other building of any description for which no special formula is at hand. There is also a special blessing for the bridal chamber.

(e) Lastly inanimate things that subserve the equitable needs and convenience of society may receive from the Church the stamp of her benediction before they are sent on their way to do their appointed tasks. Such, for instance, are new ships, new railways with trains and carriages, new bridges, fountains, wells, cornmills, limekilns, smelting-furnaces, telegraphs, steam engines, machines for producing electricity. The many serious accidents that occur explain the concern of the Church for those whose lives are exposed to danger from these various sources.

Answer 8

That's what differentiates it from just a hunk of metal. Now it's special and glows in the dark. And if you listen real close when things are very quiet, it may even speak to you.

Answer 9

It gives it magical powers

Answer 10

Another example of idolatry. Praise the LORD.