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This year the Lenten season is upon us very early. The time just before Lent is a perfect time to bless or re-bless your home as to protect you and help prepare you for the Lenten season ending with the joyous celebration of Easter. It may be a bit old fashioned but in these hectic and uncertain times it makes sense to me to protect and bless our homes and families. Home blessing simply is a sacred physical act of dedication; a dedication of both the family members and their household to the Lord. Many Christians have written to us lately informing us that they finally created a prayer room in their homes and now they want to know what’s next, in regards to the blessing of their home. We always answer, to first have the home blessed by their pastor or priest and then to develop a daily or nightly blessing prayer to be recited by all the members of the family.

To understand the why and how come of having a blessing upon the entrance to a home we must go back to the Biblical days when the children of Israel were slaves to the Egyptians. Most everyone remembers all the various feats of power our God did in an attempt to convince the Egyptians to let the Children of Israel go free. Nothing was effective until God told the children of Israel to kill an unblemished lamb, eat it all in one sitting and then to paint the door posts with the blood of the lamb. Why, because God was going to send His holy angel of death to kill every first-born of man and beast in that area. The angel of death was instructed to 'pass-over' the homes with .