Next Saturday evening and Sunday morning, the weekend following the February 3rd Feast Day of St. Blaise, a 4th century bishop and martyr from Armenia, we will have the blessing of throats after the Masses at St. Anthony and Our Lady of the Hills. St. Blaise healed a boy who was choking on a fish bone, and afterward this throat blessing developed in the Church seeking his intercession.
Touching the blessed candles to the throats of those who seek the blessing, the priest prays:
Through the intercession of Saint Blaise,
bishop and martyr,
may God deliver you from every disease
of the throat and from every other illness:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
