This Epiphany Home Blessing can be done by one person saying all the prayers, or if there are multiple people with a call and response method where the bolded words are said as a response. The Our Father is said by all.
EPIPHANY HOME BLESSING
+In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Peace to this home
and to all who enter here.
Let us praise God, who fills our hearts and homes with peace.
Blessed be God forever.
Antiphon
A light has shone through the darkness for the upright of heart;
the Lord is gracious, merciful, and just.
Luke 1:68-79
May the Lord God of Israel be blessed indeed! For God’s intervention has begun, and He has moved to rescue us, the people of God. And the Lord has raised up a powerful sign of liberation for us from among the descendants of God’s servant, King David. As was prophesied through the mouths of His holy prophets in ancient times: God will liberate us from our enemies and from the hand of our oppressors! God will show mercy promised to our ancestors, upholding the abiding covenant He made with them, remembering the original vow He swore to Abraham, from whom we are all descended. God will rescue us from the grasp of our enemies so that we may serve Him without fear all our days in holiness and justice, in the presence of the Lord. And you, my son, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will be the one to prepare the way for the Lord so that the Lord’s people will receive knowledge of their freedom through the forgiveness of their sins. All this will flow from the kind and compassionate mercy of our God. A new day is dawning: the Sunrise from the heavens will break through in our darkness, and those who huddle in night, those who sit in the shadow of death, Will be able to rise and walk in the light, guided in the pathway of peace.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Antiphon
A light has shone through the darkness for the upright of heart;
the Lord is gracious, merciful, and just.
Revelation 15:3-4
How great and wonderful are all your works, Lord God Almighty; upright and true are all your ways, King of nations. Who does not revere and glorify your name, O Lord? For you alone are holy, and all nations will come and adore you for the many acts of saving justice you have shown.
Pater Noster
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Blessing
Visit, O blessed Lord, this home with the gladness of your presence. Bless all who live or visit here with the gift of your love; Bless us with health and well-being of soul and body and grant that we may manifest your love to each other and to all whose lives we touch. May we grow in grace and in the knowledge and love of you; guide, comfort, and strengthen us in peace, O Jesus Christ, now and forever. Amen.
Sprinkle each room with holy water and if able mark the front door with chalk
with the following inscription:
20+C+M+B+24
The numbers stand for the current year.
The letters traditionally for the Magi: “Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar”
or for the Latin blessing “Christus Mansionem Benedicat” Christ bless this home.