House Blessing
@allknowing (153544)
India
February 28, 2023 12:03am CST
We have a custom where the parish priest visits every home under his jurisdiction and blesses it, once a year. This is different from house warming where a house is blessed when it is newly constructed.
Some prayers for the well being of those present and dead are said and the house blessed with holy water. These days, since there are many houses this is just symbolic as on possible go round houses some of which are huge in size.
The priest then spends time with the family enquiring about their welfare and last but not the least collects money that is spent on the maintenance of the church.
Today is the house blessing here Solitaire is all ready to welcome the priest.
Do you have this custom?
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
28 Feb 23
They do the same here, the Priest comes to bless our houses once a year and it is always before Easter. They stay in the hallways and give the blessing to the house, they do not walk through the rooms. This is something they never did even in Italy, they stand in our room and "bless this house" with holy water.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
Earlier they used to cover every nook and corner and now it is just symbolic as they have a huge number of houses to visit We just finished ours a couple of hours ago. There were loads of the bher fruit in the basket and they helped themselves - there were four of them one priest and rest holding some position or the other/
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
@LadyDuck That method of paying directly to the church has also been introduced here.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
28 Feb 23
@allknowing The Priest comes alone here, sometimes with one choirboy. We do not give money directly, we send a bank transfer to the church.
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@Lignitecityabishek96 (7116)
• Cuddalore, India
28 Feb 23
We do some rituals with fire. The ritual is mainly for Lord Ganesha.
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@Lignitecityabishek96 (7116)
• Cuddalore, India
28 Feb 23
@allknowing Did you mean year? No only during the start.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
@Lignitecityabishek96 We have this every year. We just finished ours
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@popciclecold (40215)
• United States
28 Feb 23
Sort of, we don't move into a house unless the preacher comes and prays in it.
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@popciclecold (40215)
• United States
28 Feb 23
@allknowing We just have it when before we move inm
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
That is the first time you take up a house or construct it but we have this ritual once every year
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
Here it is done once a year - no one can object to it
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
That is during the house warming but we have this once every year
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
28 Feb 23
That is at the time of house warming but here it is done once every year
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@Adie04 (17405)
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28 Feb 23
@allknowing Maybe that's the custom they made over there. I am not sure, but here is like I have mentioned 
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
1 Mar 23
I am very glad to har this that you do this there.
Here I must get an exorcist.
