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Prayers for House Cleansing: A Christian Way to Cleanse and Bless Your Home

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Summary

  • A Christian house cleansing can follow five steps with a prayer for each: confession, removing occult objects, making peace, resisting evil and asking God’s blessing.
  • Short prayers cover moving into a house where others lived, a death in the house, a season of fighting or illness, and fear at night.
  • The Orthodox Great Blessing of Waters at Epiphany, in Hapgood’s 1906 translation, asks that the water serve “the sanctification of their houses.”
  • Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide (1906) prints an indulgenced family prayer, approved by Leo XIII in 1889, ending “Bless this house.”
  • The Bible describes the cleansing of a house with a spreading mark in its walls (Leviticus 14), Jacob’s household putting away idols (Genesis 35:2–4) and the cleansing of the temple under Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:16).
  • Burning sage, salt lines and chants have no place in the Orthodox and Catholic blessings of a house, which ask God to act and use water blessed by prayer.

A Christian house cleansing asks God to forgive what was done there, remove what is evil and fill it with his peace: “Lord Jesus, this house belongs to you. Forgive every sin committed here, drive out anything evil, and fill every room with your peace. Amen.” Five steps for a fuller cleansing follow, with traditional prayers. A house cleansing in five steps A fuller house cleansing can follow the pattern Scripture describes: confession, removing what does not belong, making peace,…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 35:2–4; Leviticus 14:34, 48–53; Joshua 24:15; 2 Chronicles 29:16; Psalm 4:8; 30:5; 51:7, 10; 127:1; Luke 11:24–26; John 2:16; Acts 19:19; 2 Timothy 1:7; James 3:16; 4:7–8). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Office at the Great Blessing of Waters at the Holy Epiphany, pp. 194–195. https://archive.org/details/ServiceBookOfHolyOrthodoxChurchByHapgood
  • Lasance, Francis Xavier. The Catholic Girl’s Guide: Counsels and Devotions for Girls in the Ordinary Walks of Life. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. “Indulgenced Prayer for a Christian Family,” pp. 612–613. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa

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