By: Vawn Himmelsbach April 4, 2021 Comments
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Over the past year, a lot of car owners have felt particularly grateful for their set of wheels. It has helped them make grocery store runs, get to doctor’s appointments, and to escape the work-from-home lifestyle for a few hours by transporting them to a nearby conservation area or provincial park.
That’s the sentiment behind an age-old tradition in the Roman Catholic Church of blessing forms of transportation, including automobiles a practice that is still alive and well in our modern-day world.
“It’s a logical extension of the church’s tradition of blessing things,” said Rev. Séamus Hogan, associate professor of church history at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Scarborough. Blessings are part of the Catholic faith and culture, which includes blessings in three main categories: people, places and things (both religious and secular). Cars fall under the categor