How To Dispose Of Religious Statues Respectfully?
If religious statues are still useable, is to give them away to other people who could use them. If you can’t find any takers there are other options. Or you can fix them yourself, repaint statues or find a professional to help
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Option 1
We are accustomed to having “fortunate” religious statues, signifying the sanctification and eternal dedication of an object for a spiritual purpose. Once religious statues is blessed and dedicated to sacred worship or veneration, it must be treated with respect and must not be used in an improper or obscene way.
What happens when a rosary or a statue is broken and cannot be overcome? Or, when the palms dry, and does the following Palm Sunday give us new palms? The basic principle for handling these items is to burn or bury them.
Therefore, the usual “rule of thumb” is that anything that has been blessed must be burned (and then buried ashes) or simply buried.
Option 2
Collect the sacraments like votive candles, religious images, rosaries (sometimes broken), medals, palm branches and other miscellaneous. Religious statue are quite common. What do you do if you’re not sure if they are blessed?
One option, if they are still usable, is to give them to others who can use them. If you can find any recipient, there are other options.
Respect handling
Proper handling of votive candles and other beliefs, if they have been blessed, is to burn or bury them, preferably in the case of candles before. Let the candles burn completely, or, if this is dangerous if the glass candle holder breaks, burn them yourself.
It is not a sin to throw away lucky items, but because of proper respect, one should discard them this way. If devotees are not blessed, such as some holy cards and those that are mailed, they are just images and can be thrown away.
If you don’t feel comfortable throwing them away, you can also burn or bury them.
Option 3
SHOULD NOT BE SHARED:
Any clearly liturgical items damaged or worn beyond their worthwhile operational capacity.
• If items can burn, they should be burned. If possible, the ashes should then be collected and buried in a church compound or in a Catholic cemetery.
• If items cannot be burned, they should be disassembled or destroyed in a manner that prevents profanity from being reused and then buried in a church compound or in a Catholic cemetery, not to be thrown away. in the landfill. If the item is metal that could be melted-down for re-use it must first be disassembled or destroyed in a way that prevents any profane re-use in its recognizable form prior to its trip to the smelter.
When trying to burn textiles:
- A burning hot fire is needed with a separate fuel source.
- It may be best to throw individual textiles on an open flame one by one, as some textiles are treated to specifically inhibit burning. (A thick pile of them thrown at the same time may not catch fire and may even put out the fire.)
- Stay away from fumes from burning textiles because they can be slightly toxic.
When trying to burn a hardcover book:
Unless the covers are removed and the pages are torn off the link before burning the parts of the nearest pages, the binding will most likely not catch fire, even if the fire is very hot.
This requires that any unburnt / still identifiable part, along with ashes, if possible, be collected and buried in the churchyard or in a Catholic cemetery.
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