BLESSING OF STATUES AND PICTURES OF OUR LORD

BLESSING OF STATUES AND PICTURES OF OUR LORD

The blessing may be given privately by any priest without asking leave of the Bishop.

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.

R. Who made heaven and earth.

V. The Lord be with you.

R. And with your spirit.

Let us pray: Almighty eternal God, thou hast allowed pictures and statues of thy Saints to be painted and carved, so that as often as we look upon them with our bodily eyes, we may recall with our more inward eyes their deeds and their sanctity and learn to imitate them. In thy goodness, therefore, bless and sanctify this picture (statue) fashioned to honor and to recall thy only Son our Lord Jesus Christ to our minds; and grant to all who honor and invoke the aid of thy only begotten Son with this picture (statue) before their eyes, that they may obtain grace from thee in this life and everlasting glory in the next, by his merits and his power with thee. Through the same Christ our Lord.

R. Amen.

He sprinkles the picture or statue with holy water.

BENEDICTIO IMAGINIS - Jesu Christi Domini nostri

The blessing may be given privately by any priest without asking leave of the Bishop.

V. Adiutórium nostrum in nómine Dómini.

R. Qui fecit cælum et terram.

V. Dóminus vobíscum.

R. Et cum spíritu tuo.

Orémus.

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui Sanctórum tuórum imágines (sive effigies) sculpi aut pingi non réprobas, ut quóties illas óculis córporis intuémur tóties eórum actus et sanctitátem ad imitándum memóriæ óculis meditémur: hanc quǽsumus, imáginem (seu sculptúram) in honórem et memóriam Unigéniti Fílii tui Dómini nostri Jesus Christi adaptátam, bene dícere, et sancti ficáre dignéris: et præsta ut quicúmque coram illa Unigénitum Fílum tuum suppliciter cólere et honoráre studúerit, illíus méritis et obténtu a te grátiam in præsenti et ætérnam glóriam obtineat in futúrum. Per (eúmdem) Christum Dóminum nostrum.

R. Amen.

He sprinkles the picture or the statue with Holy Water.

Sacramental Blessings - Priests Only