{"id":6464,"date":"2015-01-01T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:10","slug":"epiphany-of-the-lord-20-k-m-b-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6464","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany house blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the Epiphany House Blessing. Look for blessed chalk at your Mass this weekend, or ask your priest ti bless some for you. Do your Epiphany House Blessing on\u00a0Tuesday, January 6.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/epiph2015.jpg\" alt=\"epiph2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using blessed chalk, the head of the household says the following prayer while inscribing 20 + K + M + B + 15 outside, above, or near, the main door of the house:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The 3 wise men<br \/>\n<strong> K <\/strong>Kaspar<br \/>\n<\/em><em><strong> M<\/strong> Melchior<br \/>\n<\/em><em><strong> B<\/strong> and Balthasar followed the star of God\u2019s Son who became man<br \/>\n<strong> 20 <\/strong>two thousand<br \/>\n<\/em><em><strong> 15<\/strong>\u00a0and fifteen\u00a0years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>+ +<\/strong> May Christ bless our home<br \/>\n<strong> + +<\/strong> and remain with us throughout this new year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If others are present:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Almighty God, incline your ear.<br \/>\nMay you bless us and all who are gathered here.<br \/>\nSend your holy angel who will defend us<br \/>\nand fill with grace all who live here. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may also write \u2018ora pro nobis\u2019 (pray for us) underneath with a small crown above each of the three letters to represent the magi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the Epiphany House Blessing. Look for blessed chalk at your Mass this weekend, or ask your priest ti bless some for you. Do your Epiphany House Blessing on Tuesday, January 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,259],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-epiphany","tag-house-blessing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}