St. Joseph

[jukesk9]

Through the intercession of St. Joseph, my parents sold their house five days after burying his statue and asking for his prayers in their time of need.  Previously, their house had been on the block for two years.  They had bought another one and moved into it and were being drained by the two mortgages.  Just another example of the intercession of the saints.  Glory to God in the Highest.

 

[isshinwhat]

Amen, jukes.

 

[panterapat]

St Joseph has also come to my aid in a very similar way. Just remember not to make it into a superstition with all those particulars about how to bury the statue etc. etc.

It is the faith of our prayers and St. Joseph's intercession that matters in this situation.

All for the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.
All through the Immacualte Heart of Mary.
All in union with St. Joseph.

Patrick

 

[Wolseley]

I will reiterate what Patrick said. Asking a saint for his intercession is Catholic Christianity. Burying a statue upside-down three feet off the southwest corner of the foundation facing out is superstitious nonsense.

 

[sklippstein]

Amen!

 

[jukesk9]

Oh, I don't think what we did was superstitious. We honestly asked for St. Joseph's intercession. If we wouldn't have buried the statue, I don't think that would have made a difference. It was by his prayers, allowed by the Glory of God, that they sold their house.

 

[panterapat]

Amen!

 

[sklippstein]

my original "amen" was for jukes.

 

 

will reiterate what Patrick said. Asking a saint for his intercession is Catholic Christianity. Burying a statue upside-down three feet off the southwest corner of the foundation facing out is superstitious nonsense.

*sigh*........it's not superstitious nonsense!

 

 

[Wolseley]

*sigh*........it's not superstitious nonsense!

You don't think burying a $1.15 hot-plastic injected statue made in China of St. Joseph in your backyard with the hope that it'll sell your house isn't superstitious nonsense?

Jukes has exactly the right attitude:

If we wouldn't have buried the statue, I don't think that would have made a difference.

Amen! It is the intercession of the saint that helps you, not whether or not you bury a statue. The physical act of burying a statue with the hope that it in itself will sell your house is sort of akin to drinking the blood of an owl that was killed by having it neck wrung over a running stream at midnight, and then spitting three times over your left shoulder at a full moon in the hopes that you'll have a fertile conception.

 

[sklippstein]

Wosley.......nope, it's an act of faith.

 

[Wolseley]

I disagree. I think burying a statue is a superstition (albeit a rather minor, harmless one) that does nothing one way or the other.

Asking a saint for his intercession, however, I strongly believe in and strenuously advocate.

You are, as always, under no compulsion to agree with me.

 

[sklippstein]

Wolseley........ok

 

[kdmom]

Is the burying of a Saints statue something the Catholic Church reccomends or teaches anyone to do?

Note: I am not asking about asking a Saint for their intercessory prayers on one's behalf. I am specifically asking about the burying of a Saints statue.

Thanks in advance for any and all answers!

 

[jukesk9]

What's really neat about this whole thing with my parents is that after they sold the house, we picked up a copy of the local paper on Wednesday and there was an article about how the Church approves of this practice if it is done out of an act of faith and not superstition (you can't just bury the statue...you must ask for the prayers of St. Joseph for his intercession).

I read somewhere that the tradition of burying the statue began hundreds of years ago in Europe when nuns would ask for his intercession (patron saint of family and household needs) when they needed more land for convents.