Blessing of Objects
Setting apart bread, water, and home with a holy blessing
The blessing of objects is the setting apart of things such as food, homes, fields, water, or articles by a clerical blessing for sacred or protective use. Early church orders preserve blessings over items such as oil and olives. The practice is extensive in Catholic, Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox life. Many Reformed and Free Protestant traditions, however, minimized or rejected it, wary of attaching holiness to material things.
How it traveled
- Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)Paris · 1274explains
Key passages(17)
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council · The Ecumenical Councils
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great · Pope Gregory the Great
The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon · The Ecumenical Councils
Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen · Sozomen
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
On Idolatry. · Apologetic
On the Life of St. Martin · Sulpicius Severus
Expositions on the Book of Psalms · Augustine of Hippo