5 POWERFUL ways to use BLESSED SALT 

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Thanks for sharing!! Great idea!

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Yea great idea! I guess too if you are prone to sins of the tongue!

@Alma What a blessing! I wish that every Catholic Church had containers of blessed salt for whoever wants/needs it.

Yes because it is pure salt no additives!

We use Himilayan salt. We get those big tubs from Costco and have the priest say exorcism prayers over it, (not because we are worried about the salt, but because we have found exorcised salt is more powerful).

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I have a traditional latin priest bless my salt, water, oil, candles and religious articles in the traditional Latin rite blessing.

@@CatholicMailman Any Priest can do the blessing in the traditional Latin Blessing. They don't have to be a TLM priest. All one need do is ask for a specific blessing - bless this or please do the exorcism rite blessing on this. They don't exorcise oils for us though that is reserved for confirmation and anointing the sick.

Yes ! Just like holy water there’s three types. Holy/blessed, epiphany salt/water and exorcism salt/water. The epiphany is coming up early next year. You can have any parish priest bless your salt/water and your home for an epiphany blessing. I was directed by my priest to use a pinch in the four corners of my room/house once a week.

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May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. -Amen The seven sorrows of Mary novena is perfect for grieving. The book of Job is powerful as well.

Gregorian mass- 30 days of masses.

Don’t forget to Offer Mass intention for the deceased, especially in the first 30 days, on death anniversary and of course anytime of the year. It’s the most effective but you should be there during Mass.

you have to ask - if you want exorcised salt or if yo just want it blessed and any priest should accommodate either one.

Exorcised oil, yes, very powerful.

@@tatianasouza2361 Where have you ever been given exorcised oil? It is used only during confirmation and anointing the sick - I was informed that only a blessing may be done on the oils not the exorcism rite.

Usually priests offer the annual blessing of homes during epiphany. Becuase there is a specific blessing given each year on epiphany. Also if anything has happened in your home involving mortal sin or the demonic, it would make sense to ask a priest to come back again. You can always bless your own home regularly with holy water and salt in order to help with smaller issues.

I’m not sure about that. I mean what salt is 100% pure that comes from the ocean or anywhere else for that matter? We had blessed table salt in the house growing up and it was just regular store brand stuff.

Always check the ingredients. I checked a box of salt one time and its ingredients were salt and sugar! 😮

Yes! You can pray all our prayers and have a priest bless your house, water, salt anything!

They will 100% do all of these things for you even though you are not yet fully initiated!

@@ACatholicMomsLife got our rosaries blessed today at our first mass ever. It was such an amazing experience 🥹 thank you for the response, otherwise I would have been too scared to ask!

Nonsense, anyone can get their rosary blessed and fill their bottle with holy water when they come in.

@@melissaw.5561 ??? Yeah they said I could, my husband was the one that wasn’t sure we could? I’m sorry, I’m confused.

The priests all have what's called the Book of Blessings. They have specific prayers for many things, like the excorsism blessing for salt. They use exorcised salt to bless holy water for the Easter water every year so yes they are all familiar with it also. If they do house blessings, which all should do, they always exorcise salt and bless water in order to carry that out.

Holy water is to bless and purify whereas the exorcised salt is to protect and ward off evil.

How? There are fewer than 80 exorcists worldwide. You can, however have any priest bless with the exorcist prayer making exorcist salt, water, etc.

@@melissaw.5561 ALL PRIESTS are exorcists - they can perform minor exorcisms including to exorcise salt and waters and the Benedictine medal. You do not need an Exorcist Priest (One who performs exorcisms on the possessed ) to bless your salts or waters or oils. Simply ask your Priest to do an exorcism prayer over your medal (again only the Benedictine medal may be exorcised) and water or salt and they will do so. The prayer is different than just an ordinary blessing. Likely however they will not exorcise oil for you but they will bless it - because exorcised oils are specifically used in confirmation and anointing of the sick so this is not something we typically can have.

Find another church!

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Ask a different priest. There is a blessing for grapes and first fruits of the harvest in the book of blessing. This is traditionally done for centuries on the feast of the transfiguration. Additionally the salt shouldn't be in the same category as the grapes in your priests mind if he was just unaware of that tradition. Priests must exorcise salt every Easter in order to bless the holy water (Easter water). Also if they do house blessings, which they all should do, they exorcise salt to bless the water and bless the house. If they refuse this you should write to the bishop. And also find another priest to do it.

@@msperle8949 is he still a Catholic priest? I would find another parish.

Strange, my priest happily blessed all of these things. You may have to go to the nearest church to have another priest bless them (I understand that may be far, depending on where you live)

Good question. You would think that they would know not to sell something that's already blessed

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Sacramentals (blessed salt, holy water, etc) connect the natural with the supernatural. And they are an outward sign of your inner faith. So I do both prayers and Sacramentals.

If you don't not have or cannot get blessed sacramentals, definitely do all the blessings yourself. You have authority over your home and family. However, if you can get them, they are powerful because they have Jesus' blessing. Above and beyond our own personal prayer, Sacramentals are kind of like relics of saints. Relics are explained by this given example: the woman cured of hemorrhaging in the Bible. By merely touching the tassel of Jesus cloak she was healed. Or the apostles in Acts when people are healed by their shadows passing by. These are just some biblical examples, but blessing sacramentals are even different in a respect that she explains is the priest acts in persona Christi, meaning when they put on their stole and bless or forgive, as Jesus said of the apostles, what you forgive on earth is forgiven in heaven, what you bind on earth is bound. He delegated this authority to the apostles who hand it down, through the laying of hands, to all our bishops and priests in apostolic succession traced back to the men who walked the earth with Jesus himself. So the priests forgiveness in confession is actually that of Jesus, and the priests blessing of people and objects is that of Jesus. That is what makes his prayer, and his sacramentals more powerful than our own prayers.kind of like relics of saints. Relics are explained by this given example: the woman cured of hemorrhaging in the Bible. By merely touching the tassel of Jesus cloak she was healed. Or the apostles in Acts when people are healed by their shadows passing by. These are just some biblical examples, but blessing sacramentals are even different in a respect that she explains is the priest acts in persona Christi, meaning when they put on their stole and bless or forgive, as Jesus said of the apostles, what you forgive on earth is forgiven in heaven, what you bind on earth is bound. He delegated this authority to the apostles who hand it down, through the laying of hands, to all our bishops and priests in apostolic succession traced back to the men who walked the earth with Jesus himself. So the priests forgiveness in confession is actually that of Jesus, and the priests blessing of people and objects is that of Jesus. That is what makes his prayer, and his sacramentals more powerful than our own prayers.

It is a Really Good Question - The Water, the Salt the Oil have no power on their own they are inanimate objects - creations of the Lord - However when a Priest Bishop or Pope places a Blessing on something such as a medal or salts then where that something goes the blessing goes or where that something stands in place the blessing stands in place. This is why if something is sold that is blessed the blessing is automatically removed because the buying and selling of blessings is an outrage to the Lord. So there are different types of blessings by the Priest - He may simply say Lord bless this item in the name of the Fr Son Holy Spirit and that is it - and it is blessed. Then there are solemn blessings which are referred to as exorcised blessing and this blessing is in depth removing all evil properties from the item and placing a blessing on it that no evil may molest. Any priest can do this. You and I cannot bless the home but we can ASK God to bless it where as the Priest can Bless it or the Deacon. They can say "I Bless this home or item......." You Say "Lord please bless this home or item" As a Parent you have authority over your child so you can say "I bless you in the name of the Fr S HS etc...." But you cannot do this over another person. God reserves the power of certain blessings to the ordained. When placing the salt in your home for protection you simply ask God "Please protect my home or Please bless my home" The Priest has put the blessing on the salt so where the salt goes the blessing resides and so technically you could just place it there and say nothing. Does that help?