As a point of liturgical fact, the Church asks God to\u00a0bless herbs and flowers –and thus us– to remind all of us of the gifts God has given us\u00a0for our sustenance, healing and beauty. In many places the faithful had all\u00a0their flowers blessed, especially those closely associated with the Blessed\u00a0Virgin Mary. Herbs blessing, therefore, is another example of giving thanks, a key\u00a0theological and liturgical point in our life of faith. While customary it is\u00a0not likely to be used in many parishes. The collects for the herbs blessing rich and\u00a0savory.<\/span><\/p>\n The Directory\u00a0on Popular Piety and the Liturgy<\/span><\/a> <\/em>(2001) says of herbs blessing:<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (15 August) is deeply imbedded in popular\u00a0piety. In many places the feast is synonymous with the person of Our Lady, and\u00a0is simply referred to as “Our Lady’s Day” or as the “Immacolada”\u00a0in Spain and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n In\u00a0the Germanic countries, the custom of blessing herbs is associated with 15\u00a0August. This custom, received into the Rituale Romanum\u00a0<\/i>(200), represents a clear\u00a0example of the genuine evangelization of pre-Christian rites and beliefs: one\u00a0must turn to God, through whose word “the earth produced vegetation:\u00a0plants bearing seeds in their several kinds, and trees bearing fruit with their\u00a0seed inside in their several kinds” (Gen 1, 12) in order to obtain what was\u00a0formerly obtained by magic rites; to stem the damages deriving from poisonous\u00a0herbs, and benefit from the efficacy of curative herbs.<\/span><\/p>\n This ancient use came\u00a0to be associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary, in part because of the biblical\u00a0images applied to her such as vine, lavender, cypress and lily, partly from\u00a0seeing her in terms of a sweet smelling flower because of her virtue, and most\u00a0of all because of Isaiah 11, 1, and his reference to the “shoot springing The Order of Blessing of Herbs is found here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is customary\u00a0in the Western Church, since at least the 10th century, for the priest to bless\u00a0herbs on the Solemnity of the Assumption. The Eastern Church likely had a similar\u00a0formulary much earlier. As a point of liturgical fact, the Church asks God to\u00a0bless herbs and flowers –and thus us– to remind all of us of … Continue reading Herbs Blessing on the Assumption Solemnity, August 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1733,1726,2161,2498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28174,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions\/28174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Thumbnail](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/Herbs-thumb-300x300-thumb-300x300.jpg\")
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\nfrom the side of Jesse”, which would bear the blessed fruit of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n