Home blessings began on Friday Jan. 6, and will continue until Thursday, Jan.12. Parishioners who signed up for their home to be blessed should have received notification regarding the day and time scheduled for the priest’s visit.
If you did not receive email notification about the scheduling of your home’s blessing, please email: 
During the priest’s visit to the homes to be blessed this week, the priest will sprinkle and incense your house, and mark the front door (or doors) with chalk. This tradition commemorates the visitation of the three Magi to the Holy Family in Bethlehem. A priest visits the home, blessing each room (or at least, whichever rooms you would like him to bless) with Epiphany water and incense. The main entrance of the home is then marked with the initials of the three Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, and 20+C+M+B+23, the code of the current year (2023) connected with crosses. The letters have two meanings. First, they represent the initials of the Magi; and second, they abbreviate the Latin phrase, Christus mansionem benedicat: “May Christ bless the house.” Taken together, this inscription is performed as a request for Christ to bless the home, and that He abide with all those who dwell therein throughout the year.