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Catholics: What is the church’s position on superstitious practices in the real estate market?
When I read through the classified advertisements looking for garage sales, I often come across advertisements placed by a Catholic person. I’m going to paraphrase the material, since I don’t have it in front of me. It went something like this.
“If you want to sell your home, buy a statue of Saint Joseph, bury it upside down in your yard. Then say five Hail Mary’s and repeat the Rosary three times (once for the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost.) This is guaranteed for a quick sell, but you must promise to place this advertisement in the newspaper after you succeed.”
From a non-Catholic point of view, this practice seems a bit complicated. Why not just pray to God to sell your home? What additional benefits would one receive by following the process outlined in these kinds of advertisements?
Example source: http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/stjoe.html
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
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III. "YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME"
2110 The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion; irreligion is the vice contrary by defect to the virtue of religion.
Superstition
2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a1.htm
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The perfect reference tool for home, school, or parish now includes two new sections! Catholic Quick View, Second Edition is handy, concise, and small enough to throw in your backpack or briefcase. This book offers speedy access to some of the core elements of Catholicism, including these: beliefs prayers common practices over 300 terms and definitions NEW! Symbols NEW! Saints The book also includes an extra introductory section on Catholicism, and the following sections: Core Catholic Teachings on Reason and Revelation Core Catholic Teachings on the Scriptures and Tradition Core Catholic Understandings on Biblical Inspiration and Interpretation Whether young or young at heart, Catholic or not, readers of Catholic Quick View, Second Edition will have easy entry into the basics of this 2,000-year-old tradition... |
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The perfect reference tool for home, school, or parish! Catholic Quick View is a handy, concise, little book offering speedy access to some of the core elements of Catholicism, including beliefs, prayers, rituals, plus over 300 terms and definitions... |
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