![]() ![]() ![]() ~~Home Blessing Ritual and Prayers~~ ![]() ![]() ![]()
| ![]() ![]() This was taken from this post created on Shadowlands ... Home Blessing Walking River Registered User (7/28/04 1:04 pm) Thank you Walking River for your help and also for making this a very real and easily followed ritual for a Home Blessing. ![]() priest put together when I was living in Houston. It is adapted from the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer and designed according to the my small apartment I had at the time. If you like it, copy/paste and share with others. Hope this might help. ![]() Officiant: Encircle this dwelling place with your protection, O God; May your holy angels encompass these walls All: And Peace be within them. Officiant: As earth brings forth its blossom, or bushes burst into flower, so make rightesouness and peace blossom before all the people. All: Make of this patio area a place of serenity and peace. ![]() Officiant: In the name of God, peace to this house. All: Gad make it a haven for all who live here. Homeowners: Welcome to my home. Officiant: God of hearth and home, maker of love and laughter, make this home a place for reflection and restoration, rest and renewal, a place where (insert names) may find its strength. God watch over your going out and your coming in All: from this time forth for evermore. ![]() Officiant: The living God gave us from heaven rain and fruitful seasons satisfying our hearts with food and gladness. All: God brings forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart. Officiant: Blessed are you, most gracious God, for gifts from your bounty which we receive. May our hearts be thankful; may we always have room for a guest. All: Make us grateful for all your gifts to us, and always mindful of and responsive to the needs of others. ![]() Officiant: you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of God who has dealt so wondrously with you. The eyes of all wait upon you, O God. All: and you give them their food in due season. Officiant: God of garden, farm and factory, may what is prepared here bring strength and health. Bless the hands that work in this place, nourish us with all goodness and give us grateful hearts for daily bread. All: May God our constant guest make our humblest meal a welcoming offering. ![]() Officiant: O how good and pleasant it is, when God's people live together in unity. Above everything, love for one another fervently, All:V for love covers many faults. Officiant: O loving God, you have made us to need each other and to grow best with companions; bless those who shall sit or talk or work together here. All: May they share your care and understanding. Officiant: May this home be for all a place where relationships mature, quarrels are made up, failures forgiven and strength renewed. Blessed be God All: who breaks down the walls that divide Officiant: The peace of God be always with you All: Praise to God who unites us in peace. ![]() Officiant: Guide us waking, O God, and guard us sleeping, All: for it is in God alone that I dwell unafraid. Officiant: God of the day and of the night, may this be a holy and blessed place for (insert names), a sacred place of rest. May he know your loving presence find rest for his fatigue, and peace for his anxiety, as he finds rest and refreshment in this place. All: May your holy angels guard him, your continual blessing strengthen him ![]() Officiant: "I will sprinkle you with clean water, and you will be cleansed." Let us hold fast our hope without wavering. All: having our bodies washed with pure water. Officiant: May this place, O God, be a place of refreshment and cleansing for the bodies with which you have gifted us. Blessed are you God of the rain, the rivers and the lakes, All: You give water for life and health to refresh and cleanse all creatures. ![]() MAY BE CELEBRATED AT THIS TIME CLOSING PRAYERS Officiant: (insert names), God bless you and keep you secure in this place. May all who come here find in you God's love and understanding. As Jesus the Christ asked God's blessing on food and drink shared upon festive occasion, so we invoke God's blessing on the food we share now and later on this festive occasion. O God, be with us now and at all our meals give us appetite and joy in eating together. All: Blessed be God for daily bread. Officiant: Hear God's word of benediction: The fruit of righteousness will be peace and the result of righteousness, tranquility and trust for ever. My people will abide in secure dwellings and in quiet resting places. And now the eternal Spirit enfold this home with love; indwell this home with joy; and build this home in peace evermore and evermore. All: Amen. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Say the Rosary every day... Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners... I'm Our Lady of the Rosary. Only I will be able to help you. ...In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph." Our Lady at Fatima The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses". Our Lady has revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses. The rose is the queen of flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of all devotions and it is therefore the most important one. The Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because within it lies the awesome story of our salvation. With the Rosary in fact we meditate the mysteries of joy, of sorrow and the glory of Jesus and Mary. It's a simple prayer, humble so much like Mary. It's a prayer we can all say together with Her, the Mother of God. With the Hail Mary we invite Her to pray for us. Our Lady always grants our request. She joins Her prayer to ours. Therefore it becomes ever more useful, because what Mary asks She always receives, Jesus can never say no to whatever His Mother asks for. ![]() In every apparition, the heavenly Mother has invited us to say the Rosary as a powerful weapon against evil, to bring us to true peace. With your prayer made together with Your heavenly Mother, you can obtain the great gift of bringing about a change of hearts and conversion. Each day, through prayer you can drive away from yourselves and from your homeland many dangers and many evils. It can seem a repetitive prayer but instead it is like two sweethearts who many times say one another the words: "I love you"... A devout exercise to perform praying the Rosary to obtain any request is the "54-day Rosary Novena" in honor of Our Lady of Pompeii. You can find the History of the Rosary reading the Secret of the Rosary of Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort. ![]() The Holy Father John Paul II with the Apostolic Letter ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE of 10/16/2002 has added 5 new mysteries of the Rosary: The Mysteries of the Light. The whole Rosary is composed of twenty decades. Each decade is recited in honor of a mystery in Our Lord's Life and that of his Blessed Mother. It is customary to recite five decades at a time while meditating on one set of mysteries. The decades may be separated, if the entire chaplet is completed on the same day. Each Mystery may be meditate "bead by bead" for every Hail Mary of the decade. ![]() How to pray the Rosary 1 While holding the crucifix make the Sign of the Cross. and then recite the Apostles Creed. 2 Recite the Our Father on the first large bead. 3 Recite a Hail Mary for an increase of faith, hope and charity on each of the three small beads. 4 Recite the Glory Be to the Father on the next large bead. 5 Recite the Fatima Prayer "O my Jesus" on the large bead. 6 Recall the first Rosary Mystery and recite the Our Father on the large bead. 7 On each of the adjacent ten small beads (also refered to as a decade) recite a Hail Mary while reflecting on the mystery. 8 On the next large bead, recite the Glory Be to the Father, the Fatima prayer. 9 Each succeeding decade is prayed in a similar manner by recalling the appropriate mystery, reciting the Our Father, ten Hail Marys, the Glory Be to the Father, and the Fatima prayer while reflecting on the mystery. 10 When the fifth mystery is completed, the Rosary is Customarily concluded with the Hail Holy Queen, and the Sign of the Cross. ![]() Sign of the Cross Make the Sign of the Cross: In the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. ![]() Mystic's PrayersThe Apostle's Creed (Other Version) I BELIEVE in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth. I BELIEVE in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he arose again. He ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. ![]() Our Father OUR FATHER, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. ![]() Hail Mary HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. ![]() Glory Be GLORY BE to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. ![]() O My Jesus O MY JESUS, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy. ![]() Hail, Holy Queen HAIL, Holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us. And after this our exile, show unto us the blessed Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, o Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen. Let us pray. O GOD, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech Thee, that meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen ![]() Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. In Latin it is... Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae Caelestis, satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen. ![]() Mystic Merlyn says:
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