Father James Peterson's Weekly Newsletter - February 3, 2022
A Day to Bless Throats
Greetings!
Greetings! How are you doing? Each year on February 3rd as Catholic Christians we have a special opportunity to ask for health of body and soul through the blessing of our throats. It is customary that a bishop, priest, or deacon will take two candles and place them over a person’s throat while saying this accompanying prayer, “Through the intercession of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, may God deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” (Source: daily-prayers.org)
Not much is known about the Bishop and Martyr whom we honor on this day except that he was a holy and prayerful man who worked “hard to encourage the spiritual and physical health of his people” (franciscanmedia.org). He lived in Armenia in the early 300's and suffered martyrdom for love of Christ. According to pious legend, he helped heal a child who was choking on a fishbone but then was himself later beheaded. How providentially ironic or perhaps fitting in God’s Plan that St. Blaise would be invoked for problems with throats.
We ask for the prayers of this fervent follower of Christ that we ourselves would have good health of our body, mind, and soul for God’s Greater Glory and that we would one day join St. Blaise in the heavenly choir singing out in full-throated joy!
Hope with Christ,
Fr. James
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November 7 - 18, 2022
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