Rite of Blessing and Consecration of Sacramentals

BLESSING OF A BELL
(Approved by the Congregation of Sacred Rites, Jan. 22, 1908)
  Adapted for use in the ministry of spiritual liberation and exorcism

Priest:  In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
All: Amen
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your Spirit
Priest: Bells have played an important role in Church life for centuries,
being a primary method of communication for priests and monks in calling
the Christian faithful to prayer. In fact, the importance of bells was so great
in the Church that an elaborate ceremony was developed to bless the bells,
with many people calling it a “baptism.”
The solemn blessing of bells or baptism of bells addresses their further
purpose of driving away evil spirits and even protecting the Christian
faithful from storms. Let us now listen to the words of God.
Deacon: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark
All: Glory to you, O Lord.
Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath, he entered the
synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he
taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their
synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you
to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know
who you are—the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet!
Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry
came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A
new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and
they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region
of Galilee.
Deacon: The Gospel of the Lord
All: Praise to you O Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Priest:  + Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All: Who made heaven and earth.
 PSALM 53
Priest:  God, by your name, save us, and by your might defend our cause.
All: God, hear our prayer; hearken to the words of our mouth.
Priest:  For haughty men have risen up against us, and fierce men seek our
life; they set not God before their eyes.
All: See, God is our helper; the Lord sustains our life.
Priest:  Turn back the evil upon our foes; in your faithfulness destroy them.
All: Freely will I offer our sacrifice; I will praise your name, Lord, for its
goodness,
Priest:  Because from all distress you have rescued us, and our eyes look
down upon my enemies.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
All: As it was, in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen
Priest:  Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. 
Our Father
All: Who art in heaven. . .
Priest:  +Blessed be the name of the Lord.
All: Both now and forevermore.
Priest:  Lord, head our prayer.
All: And let my cry come out to you.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit
Priest:  Let us pray.
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God, who decreed through blessed Moses, your servant and lawgiver, that
silver trumpets should be made and be sounded at the time of sacrifice, to
remind the people by their clear tones to prepare for your worship and to
assemble for its celebration. Grant, we pray, that this bell, destined for your
holy Church, may be hallowed + by the Holy Spirit through our lowly
ministry, so that when it is tolled and rung the faithful may be invited to
the house of God and to the everlasting recompense. Let the people’s faith
and piety wax stronger whenever they hear its melodious peals. At the
sound of the bell dedicated to St. N.  (name of the saint/s) let all evil spirits
be driven afar (3x); let thunder and lightning, hail and storm be
banished; let the power of your hand put down the evil powers of the air,
causing them to tremble at the sound of this bell, and to flee at the sight of
the holy cross engraved thereon. (3x) May our Lord Himself grant this, who
overcame death on the gibbet of the cross, and who now reigns in the glory
of God the Father, in the unity of the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever
and ever.
 All: Amen.
 The priest then signs the bell inside and out with holy chrism and then sprinkles
the bell with holy water. He may also incense it.
 Antiphon: Lord, let my prayer come like incense before you.
 Then the priest continues
Let us pray.
O Christ, the almighty ruler, as you once calmed the storm at sea when
awakened in the boat from the sleep of your human nature, so now come
with your benign help to the needs of your people, and pour out on this
bell of St. N. (name of the saint/s) the dew of the Holy Spirit. Whenever it
rings may the enemy of the good take flight (3x), the Christian people hear
the call to faith, the empire of Satan be terrified (3x), your people be
strengthened as they are called together in the Lord, and may the Holy
Spirit be with them as He delighted to be with David when he played his
harp. And as onetime thunder in the air frightened away a throng of
enemies, while Samuel slew an unweaned lamb as a holocaust to the
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eternal King, so when the peal of this bell resounds in the clouds may a
legion of angels stand watch over the assembly of your Church, the first-
fruits of the faithful, and afford your ever abiding protection to them in
body and spirit  (3x). We ask this through you, Jesus Christ, who live and
reign with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and
ever.
 All: Amen.
 Priest: To the honor of St. N. (name of the saint/s)
 All: Amen.
 Again the priest signs the blessed bell with the sign of the cross, and departs with
his assistants.
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your Spirit
(Bow down for the blessing)
Priest: May the bless you and keep you. May he show his face to you and
have mercy on you. May he turn to you his countenance and give you
peace. The Lord bless you, the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
All: Amen
Priest: Let us praise the Lord
All: And give you thanks.