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Blessing Your Home on Epiphany? Here's How to Do It in 2025

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, many Catholics bless their homes. Here’s how to do it in 2025.

Traditionally,theCatholicChurchcelebratestheEpiphanyonJanuary6.However,intheUnitedStates,thecelebrationhasmovedtotheSundaybetweenJanuary2andJanuary8.Thisyear,EpiphanyisonSunday,January5. TheSolemnityoftheEpiphanycelebratestherevelationthatJesuswastheSonofGodasrevealedtotheThreeWiseMen. AsCatholics,webelievethattheMagi,guidedbythestarofBethlehem,broughtgiftsofgold,frankincense,andmyrrhtotheChristchild. ThereisaspecialliturgicallivingactivitythatcaninspireustoinviteChristintoournewyearonthefeastoftheEpiphanyknownastheEpiphanyhouseblessing. Asabonus,familiescanenjoyakingcakefollowingthehousingblessingasanotherliturgicallivingactivityforthefeastoftheEpiphany. AccordingtoEWTN,“Inyearspast,priestswouldoftenvisittheirparishionersduringtheChristmasseasontoblesstheirhomes.Sincethisisvirtuallyimpossibleformostprieststoday,someoneinthefamily–ideallythefatherorheadofhousehold–sprinklesholywaterineachr