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My St Benedict medal keeps falling off a rather thick chain . The clasp is intact and the bale ishad no space to slip off. This has happened T least 3 times
Blessings prayers anything
How can i get one? Blessed and free. I could use the help.
ilove this medal,ihope i cAN have this too.
I’m not sure how to go about this but a man gave me this rosary with a cross with the prayer an two small medallions of saint Benedict .and a small cross.but the rosary kept breaking not wit the beads everywhere but just falling off my neck unattached itself from another bead so I keep putting it together and tightened the beads.I’m Roman Catholic but I’m lantina and how I grew up but I know this has to have some kind of meaning.
I love the scriptures about st.Benedict im wearing his bracelet that my girlfriend bought me it’s almost a year now and I love it thank you blessed st.Benedict amen
Catholiccarmedallions.com has St Benedict medals you can stick on your car! They’re beautiful.
It must be blessed in the latent rite or it’s useless the priest doesn’t matter
I have experienced the assistance of St. Benedict through a blessed crucifix/medal of his. I had dreams and nightmares of evil spirits threatening me and after going to confession and wearing the said blessed sacramental I have seen peace and blessings in my life. Thanks so much to St. Benedict, servant of Jesus and the holy Catholic Church.
There is a wonderful book on the St. Benedict medal by Dom Prosper Gueranger called “The Medal or Cross of Saint Benedict”. It is a good source on the history, devotion, and some great miracles pertaining to the St. Benedict medal.
Loved the article! I recently added a St. Benedict medal to the Miraculous Medal chain that I’ve worn around my neck since 2001.
As an aside I would also like to refer your readers to http://churchmilitant.com/ and their combat rosaries. The Church Militant Combat Rosary is based upon the original pull chain rosary that was commissioned and procured by the U.S. government and upon request was issued by the military to soldiers serving in World War I. They come with a St. Benedict medal and you may also add an optional military branch or service (police/fire) medal that has either St. Michael or St. Christopher on the reverse side.
My son enlisted in the Marine Corps and will leave for boot camp this fall. I purchased this rosary and optional USMC medal for him and he loves it. He had it blessed by our parish priest and took it with him on his trip to Washington DC and the March For Life in January.
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I’m a Benedictine oblate so I feel a bit obligated to post this lol 🙂
I have a general question about sacramentals. I am returning to the Church in the wake of my wife’s joining it from a Presbyterian and Lutheran background, and while I am by no means an iconoclast I do have some reservations about these medals and things. My question specifically is how do avoid treating these things like talismans and forgetting the real source of their power? I didn’t invest a lot in these things growing up, so I don’t even have that to draw on. I got one of the combat rosaries with the Benedictine medal, and it comes with a list of how to gain indulgences with it. I need to make sure I treat these objects the right way, which is to say in a Christ-centered way. I’d appreciate any help, and I don’t mean at all to imply there’s anything wrong with the way anyone here is doing things. Thanks.
Jarrod,
This is a great question, and as a convert to Catholicism, I can sympathize with your feelings of caution. Let me try to build on Kevin’s comments a little.
One of the problems protestants have always had, as you no doubt know, is a fear of anything physical. Physical objects like medals, as well as physical actions like genuflecting, are immediately associated with idolatry in the protestant mind. It is gnostic almost, ignoring that we are physical, and not just spiritual beings.
This fear of physical things is not Christian, nor does it have anything to do with the faith that preceded Christianity—Judaism. God expressly commanded the Jews to create physical things of great beauty, including the ark of the covenant, the temple, and the priestly vestments. If physical objects were inherently idolatrous, God would never have placed such a stumbling block before his people.
Now, protestants may argue that these are pictures pointing to Christ, and we no longer need them since we now have Christ. But that misses the point, because God has always used intermediaries—both people and objects—to accomplish his will. As an example, he used Moses’s rod to part the Red Sea, handkerchiefs touched by St. Paul to heal the sick (Acts 19:12, a biblical example of relics), Elisha’s bones to raise the dead (2 Kings 12:31, another example of relics), water to heal the sick (John 5:7), the ark of the covenant to win battles, and countless other examples.
So to summarize, God is obviously not threatened or angry when we use physical things for worship or to display his power. He often outright commands their use. Don’t worry that you are detracting from the glory of Christ! The only time to worry is when you demand that God work through an object, as if it were magic. We should never attempt to manipulate spiritual power as if God were our servant—but I’ve never seen anyone do that with a sacramental.
Also, realize that some of it is just adjusting to the “atmosphere” of Catholicism, which is markedly different than protestantism, and some things might feel strange for a while, like moving into a new house feels strange. That does not mean it is wrong, it is just foreign. Do everything prayerfully and with a good intention, and you cannot go wrong.
I hope I haven’t rambled on too much. I’m sure I’ve said things you already know. Feel free to contact me anytime if you want to continue the discussion.
God bless you, and welcome home.
Sam
Sam-
Thanks, and I think that’s a great answer. Your site, and others like it I’ve encountered on the way back in, have been such blessings.
I think you sort-of answered your own question. You are correct that they are not talismans or icons, nor do they hold any power within themselves, i.e. they are not magic. Further, they do not confer grace ipso facto, the way the Seven Sacraments do. Rather, sacramentals prepare us (and in a sense, enable us) to receive God’s grace. Even a simple blessing by a priest, deacon, or bishop is a sacramental. The power associated with such things comes not from an object or person, but from God Himself. Keeping that point in mind should help against abuse of sacramentals. Hope that helps. I’m not a priest, so if you have further questions, a priest would probably be more helpful in giving specific spiritual guidance in these matters.
And in regards to your return to the Church, welcome home! 🙂 I’ll say a prayer for you.
Thanks, brother. It’s always good to get some indication that I’m on the right track. I feel like one way to address my weaknesses from before is to surround myself with these things and thus build a foundation of good reminders, always pointing me back to Christ.
I should clarify that they are in a sense icons, in that they point towards something else (God) but God is not contained in said object. What I meant to say is that these should not be treated as idols.
I have effectively worn and utilized the Medal for close to 20 years. The Scholar and founder of Solesmes, Dom Gueranger, wrote an excellent small book on the history of its usage. “The Cross or medal of Saint Benedict”
http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/_product/medal-of-St-Benedict-gueranger-book.html
There’s a good catholic woman selling St Benedict jewelry on Etsy. 10% of her sales go to the Missionary Daughters of the Most Pure Virgin Mary (MDPVM) currently in residence at St. Peter’s school in Merchantville NJ. Please follow this link to take a look. http://www.etsy.com/shop/LoriCitsay?ref=l2-shopheader-name
Thanks, are you sure the medal can be blessed by any priest ?
I had read that they can be blessed by any priest. But there were more graces and more power if blessed by a Benedictine.
It must be blessed by the proper rite, it’s blessing contains an exorcism
The idea that a medal has more grace and power if blessed by a Benedictine is nonsense. The blessing of a priest (when a priest has faculties to bless – which most all of them do) is the blessing of God – it has nothing to do with the priest – the priest is the channel of God’s blessing. How can God’s blessing be more powerful from one priest than another? God’s blessing is God’s blessing whether a priest is diocesan or Benedictine. If the ritual for blessing the medal of St. Benedict is used by ANY priest, the medal is just is spiritually useful as if it were blessed by a Benedictine.
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St. Benedict ora pro nobis.