Piety and Sacred Objects

[Vendetta]

How do you show reverence around your sacramentals and other religious items? Mine is a little OCD, but I don't like to put the medals and crucifix on my necklace face down when I take it off. I also kiss the cover of my Bible before I open it and after I close it. Does anyone else do any such thing?

 

[Michie]

How do you show reverence around your sacramentals and other religious items? Mine is a little OCD, but I don't like to put the medals and crucifix on my necklace face down when I take it off. I also kiss the cover of my Bible before I open it and after I close it. Does anyone else do any such thing?

I have but not on a regular basis.

 

[Dylan Michael]

I am that type of person.
I probably have several, but I can't think of any now.

 

[Memento Mori]

Yes. I always wipe my Bible off after setting a can of soda on it for a while. I would feel irreverent if I left a ring of condensation on it.

Just kidding. But yeah, I am the same way with the crucifix facing up.

 

[Vendetta]

Yes. I always wipe my Bible off after setting a can of soda on it for a while. I would feel irreverent if I left a ring of condensation on it.

I was like then I was like

 

[thereselittleflower]

*Raises hand*

 

[AMDG]

How do you show reverence around your sacramentals and other religious items? Mine is a little OCD, but I don't like to put the medals and crucifix on my necklace face down when I take it off. I also kiss the cover of my Bible before I open it and after I close it. Does anyone else do any such thing?

My favorite chaplain would reverently kiss a Bible, medal, or crucifix and then hold it out for us to do likewise. I regularly kiss the cruxifix on my Rosary before saying my Rosary. I also keep a couple extra Rosaries hanging on my walls. I will often stop to make sure the crucifixes are turned outwards--if they aren't, well I turn them so that they do.

 

[Michie]

We were taught in RCIA to kiss the crucifix before & after reciting the rosary.

 

[Sarcalogos Deus]

For my icons and tabletop/wall crucifixes I bow three times and make the sign of the cross three times when I pass them. For medals I just kiss them and place them face side up.

Yes. I always wipe my Bible off after setting a can of soda on it for a while. I would feel irreverent if I left a ring of condensation on it.

I actually constantly have to constantly try to not put a can of coke on my Bibles. My nightstand is covered with books so room is scarce, usually I'll catch myself and set it on your common fiction novel instead.

 

[AMDG]

I actually constantly have to constantly try to not put a can of coke on my Bibles.

Do you one better, I will not allow anything to be put on top of my Bible(s). Not any other books. Not any papers. They are special.

 

[Vendetta]

Do you one better, I will not allow anything to be put on top of my Bible(s). Not any other books. Not any papers. They are special.

Yeah, this is a product of my Baptist schooling. We didn't put anything on our Bible. I actually don't put anything on my Qur'an because of respect for other religions. But that one finds a place on my floor collecting dust while my Bible is on my nightstand where I have to actively find space to put objects.

I have also kissed the crucifix on my rosary. Glad to see I'm not just being OCD.

 

[Dylan Michael]

My rosary goes in the left pocket. Always.

 

[mohawk]

I also kiss the crucifix on my Rosary before & after reciting the prayers. I have a Rosary with a sturdy cord, not chain, and I wrap that around my hand/wrist to go to sleep. If I wake up during the night I begin reciting the Rosary to go back to sleep.

 

[AMDG]

I have a Rosary with a sturdy cord, not chain, and I wrap that around my hand/wrist to go to sleep. If I wake up during the night I begin reciting the Rosary to go back to sleep.

Me too!

 

[Dylan Michael]

I've awoken several times to my rosary being around my left wrist when I'd fallen asleep with it in my pocket.

 

[AMDG]

I've awoken several times to my rosary being around my left wrist when I'd fallen asleep with it in my pocket.

Before I learned to wrap my Rosary around my wrist at night, I used to just clutch my Rosary in my hand all night. (BTW I don't recommend it.) I still remember waking one morning to finding it hopelessly knotted. Just then I was called away for a couple of moments. When I returned, fully expecting to spend even more time trying to unknot the Rosary (so it could be used again), I found it completely unknotted and just laying there!

 

[Vendetta]

My rosary goes in the left pocket. Always.

What's the reasoning for this?