Our Lady's Tears: Blessed Incense for the Dead

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Blessed Incense for the Dead

Incense is used by a priest to confer blessing for Mass, a funeral (as here for John Paul II), in Adoration, Benediction and even at weddings! Burn some at home, it smells great and when used with faith, has the same effect as blessing the home and family with holy water or exorcism salt. My family loves it.

1 comment:

swissmiss said...: I LOVE the smell and even the smoke when used at Mass, but the smoke in my home...cough...is a bit too much :) I haven't used it much since the kids are still little, but really like it. It really makes me mentally picture myself in church.; 11/06/2007 03:11:00 PM

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St. Winifred

Also St. Gwenfrewy or Winefride, she was the daughter of a Welsh nobleman, Tyfid ap Eiludd. Her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun, and decapitated her. Her head rolled downhill, and, where it stopped, a healing spring appeared. Winefride's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of her maternal uncle, Saint Beuno, and she was restored to life. She later became a nun and abbess at Gwytherin in Denbighshire, and Caradog, cursed by St. Beuno, melted into the ground. She died 660.