Posted on 03/13/2010 12:09:43 PM PST by Salvation
(I thought it was going to be about the chalk used with the Epiphany to bless rooms. LOL!)
Well you can tell I didn’t view it first — or at least that closely, because I got all the html at the top. Sorry about that. I don’t think the mods can take it out.
Sounds more like one of the tools of a Shaman, and not a priest.
I put some all around the grounds of our local abortuary.
Way to go!
The Sacramental You've Never Heard Of [Blessed Salt]
Liturgical Vestments (and prayers the priest says while vesting for Mass)
Vestments
Tools of the Liturgical Trade! [Ecumenical]
The story behind the white and yellow colors of the Vatican flag
The Sacrifice of the Mass: Liturgical Vestments
Of Miters and Men (brief look at symbolism of bishop's vestments) [Ecumenical]
Purification of Sacred Vessels in U.S. (and more on the Purification of our Lord)
Why We Need Sacred Art
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, [Holy] Water
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, [New] Fire, Paschal Candle
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Holy Oils
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Crucifixes and Crosses
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Sacred Images: Statues and Other Icons
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Incense
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Palm Branches
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Ashes
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Relics and the Incorruptibles
Baltimore Catechism: On the Sacramentals (Catholic Caucus)
Wiccans employ the use of Holy Water, and indeed it is used to bless people and objects.
Below you'll find the "recipe" I use.
Making Wiccan Holy Water Fill a small bowl or glass with water. Hold your hands over it and say:
"I exorcise thee, oh creature of water,
of all negativity both seen and unseen,
and bless thee in the name of the spirit."
Hold your hand amount of salt and say:
"I exorcise thee oh creature of salt
Of all negativity both seen and unseen
and bless thee in the name of the spirit."
Envision the same blue-white light covering the salt. Add three pinches of salt to the water stir three times. hold the bowl/glass at eye level with both hands and say:
"I cleanse and cosesrate this water in the name of spirit,
May this liquid enhance and purify all that it touches.
So mote it be!"
So you don’t have candles at your church either, huh?
Do you have a cross at your church? Then you have a sacramental.
And although many Lutherans are sadly unaware of the fact, Luther retained the use of blessed salt in his order for Holy Baptism.
"Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow." Psalm 50:9
"And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it, He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness. And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Eliseus, which he spoke." 4 Kings 2:20-22
Gold, frankincense, myrrh
Oil used in annointing Christ’s head. “Leave her alone. She has prepared me for my burial — paraphrasing”
I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
“Go ye, therefore, unto all the nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
How about the Holy Fire that descended on the apostles and other disciples at Pentecost?
These are all in the Bible........I don’t understand why you don’t understand these things.
There is no history of the apostles exorcizing the salt to exorcise the water of evil spirits does not exist . This practice is not in the new testament church..it is pure superstition that has roots in paganism. A baptism preformed with filthy toilet water is a "valid" as one done by exorcised water in the baptismal font and you know that:)
I have some :)
That is OLD TESTAMENT and as all of us know the old testament ceremonies and sacrifices were to point us to Christ..we are under a NEW covenant (testament) now as I am sure you know..Christ fulfilled the types..they are finished..so please show me where the apostles taught the water was demon filled and needed to be exorcised
No we so not have a cross or holy water or holy salt or anything like that ...
Nope we have electricity :)
No we so not have a cross or holy water or holy salt or anything like that ...
think of all you’re missing!!!
Naw..we have Christ
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