{"id":35326,"date":"2019-01-06T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35326"},"modified":"2019-01-06T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:49:55","slug":"blessing-of-chalk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/blessing-of-chalk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing of Chalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9fqbo\" data-offset-key=\"57a5d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"57a5d-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Chalking-the-Doors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35327 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Chalking-the-Doors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1076\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>In the Latin Church there is a pious custom, at least in the churches of the Slavic and Germanic lands, where the priest blesses chalk. We chalk each house (or the room where one resides) with the initials CMB (which stand for &#8220;Christus mansionem benedicat&#8221;, which also commemorates the 3 Magi), crosses (which are to scare the demons), and numbers (which signify the number of years that have passed since the original three kings came to Bethlehem).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9fqbo\" data-offset-key=\"3nra9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3nra9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3nra9-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9fqbo\" data-offset-key=\"8sf36-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8sf36-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8sf36-0-0\">The chalk is blessed, there is a special exorcism over the chalk. Done correctly, the house is incensed and sprinkled with holy water. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9fqbo\" data-offset-key=\"fs3q4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fs3q4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fs3q4-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9fqbo\" data-offset-key=\"bqvv3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bqvv3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bqvv3-0-0\">May the Magi intercede for us.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Latin Church there is a pious custom, at least in the churches of the Slavic and Germanic lands, where the priest blesses chalk. We chalk each house (or the room where one resides) with the initials CMB (which stand for &#8220;Christus mansionem benedicat&#8221;, which also commemorates the 3 Magi), crosses (which are to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/blessing-of-chalk-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessing of Chalk<\/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":[53],"tags":[1904,2277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326"}],"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=35326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35328,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35326\/revisions\/35328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}