Comments on: Feast of St. Blaise: Do-it-yourself throat blessings https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/saints/feast-of-st-blaise-do-it-yourself-throat-blessings/ Discovering the Divine in the Everyday. Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Joshua De Jesus https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/saints/feast-of-st-blaise-do-it-yourself-throat-blessings/#comment-5371 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:20:18 +0000 https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/?p=7642#comment-5371 Thank you for this post, I am thinking about sharing this beautiful blessing with a family friend who has undergone an operation removing a cancerous tumor in his neck. Unfortunately, this has greatly impacted his lifestyle and has removed his ability to speak. I ask that you please ask for God’s blessings and St. Blaise’s prayers for him.

I am a lay person and look forward to using the rite prescribed for the laity for this blessing. I am just wondering if the candles need to be blessed (by a priest on the Feast of the presentation of the Lord). If not, do you have a citation that confirms that the blessing can be done without blessed candles.

Thank you and may St. Blaise pray for my friend, you and your loved ones!

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