Chalking The Door 2020

Lord jesus through your incarnation and birth in true human form you have made all the earth holy.

Chalking the door 2020.

Using the chalk and taking turns make the following inscription above the outside of your door. 20 c m b 20. Chalking the door is a tangible way to honor god in our lives. Liturgy prayers for chalking the door.

A blessing of the chalk for marking the door. 20 christus mansionem benedicat 18 or 20 c m b 20. Epiphany also known as twelfth night theophany or three kings day marks the occasion of a time honored christian tradition of chalking the doors the formula for the ritual adapted for 2020 is simple. Chalking the doors for epiphany 2020.

Take chalk of any color and write the following above the entrance of your home. This page was last edited on 1 september 2020 at 17 32 utc. We use it as a tool to teach our children and they use it as a tool in their play and games. For 2020 this is what you will write on your door in chalk.

Using chalk write on the outside of your house or inside above the front main entrance above or next to an entrance. Using the blessed chalk which many parishes will bless and make available mark the lintel of your front door as follows. Chalking the door is one of the christian epiphanytide traditions used in order to bless one s home as well as a scottish custom of landlord and tenant law. Peace be to this house and to all who enter here.

The combination of numbers letters and symbols involved in chalking the door evokes the year the cross and the traditional names of the kings. Either on twelfth night 5 january the twelfth day of. 20 c m b 20 saying. The three wise men caspar melchior and balthazar followed the star of god s son who became human two thousand and nineteen years ago.

20 c m b 20 by the way for those of you who don t already know i m totally obsessed with purple. The chalk symbols are nice reminders that you have asked for a blessing upon your home and all who come in and out of those doors. Hyacinth during the weekend epiphany masses. One or more of the following prayers maybe said.

Janusz iwan blesses envelopes filled with chalk and incense to be disturbed to parishioners at st. The letters have two meanings. Posted jan 6 2020. Personally i like that it reminds me to go in and out always searching for the lord in my life and in the world just like the magi.

Chalking the doors draws similarities with the celebration of the feast of passover when the israelites were instructed to put blood on the door posts fr. Caspar melchior and balthazar. By mary frances schjonberg.