Silliest thing I've heard of so far today.
I've done it, sold a home in a week after being on the market for 60 days in 1980.
Ok.....I'm girded and guarded for the obvious incoming strife from my fellow Freepers for what I'm about to post. But, for the sake of this thread alone I'm willing to bare my soft white underbelly [ tanned actually ... I live in Florida].
My daughter and her husband are young, early 20's young when they built their first home. He was reassigned to another part of the country and packed up his lovely wife,(my stunningly attractive and equally brilliant)daughter and their 2 year old daughter.
....and they put their house up for sale in real estate challenged, SW Florida.
Many, many, many double mortgage payments later I get a call from my daughter who is crying. They had to sell their cars, blood, cuticals and anything else they could to make both mortgages. They dropped the price of their home, changed realtors ... anything they could ....
....when I decided to try something foolish. I bought a St. Joseph's statue, drove the 146 miles to their house for sale which wasn't selling along with the several other homes on their street in the same condition ..... buried it ... said a prayer and left. Calling my sobbing but grateful daughter, and telling her what I had just done....feeling both helpless and foolish we hoped this would work.
It's 5 days later and she got a call from her realtor. They have an offer .. in the price they were asking .. with a close date of 30 days from today.
I know...I know........but you have to admit .... it makes a great story!
Why would anyone want to live or buy a house in Akron, OH?
I report - you decide :-)
I don't think I could bury my St Joseph's statue. I would have to buy one of the kits. I just don't think I could do it but if it ever comes to the point of really having to I guess I could. Just doesn't seem right to me to bury him. Do you dig him back up after the sale? Or is he left there forever?
Although the Catholic Church supports using religous statues and icons as aids in prayer, the Church STRONGLY warns against sliding into superstition and iolatry as a result. The Church reminds us that such objects are NOT talismans and charms in and of themselves, and do not possess any power within them WHATSOEVER!! They are merely aids to help those who already belive to focus upon God. One needs to have a firm faith and 100% focus on Christ to begin with, and such objects are used to direct our attention more fully to Jesus (but are NOT by any means NECESSARY for this purpose!!). They are not objects of worship themselves. Such things are for people who are ALREADY staunch followers of Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit. If statues and icons ever become a superstition for a Catholic, where they think that good things will not happen unless they do something with a physical object, the Church then forbids their usage.
I know, it's Super BS. But after 7 months on market, tried it. Sold house in 3 weeks, and I'm a Presbyterian!
bttt
When a certain number of St. Josephs are buried, the ones that do not result in prompt sales are never mentioned. (Who wants to admit to such a foolish thing.) But, if a sale soon results, the people will mention it to everyone in sight.
Arrrrgh. This makes me cringe. As a Catholic, I'm all in favor of having a devotion to St. Jospeh, praying for his assistance, and, yes, even burying a statue as a SIGN of devotion, but this is the kind of thing is what makes Protestants think we pray to statues and worship saints.
The selling of a house in short order, after the burying of a St. Joseph statue, has nothing to do with the some magic formula. If God wishes to make His benevolence known through the saints - He can do so. But it's at His good will, not a superstition, that He does so.