I became a permanent resident of Canada in September 2000 and since then I have moved twice. A townhouse was my firsthome and after a year, I moved to a raised ranch type house. After 5 years, I moved to a 4 level back split house whichis only about a 5-minute drive from where I used to live.
I didn't have any problems selling the 2 houses I lived in. When they were both up for sale, I did not bury a St.Joseph statue upside down as was customary. But take note that in both cases, I sold the 2 houses only after 10-12days at the price I wanted.
Being a St. Joseph devotee, I did pray and asked for St.Joseph's intercession. But instead of burying a St. Joseph statue, here's what I did.
First, I placed a blessed St. Joseph statue by the windowin my dining room since this is the window facing my front lawn and the street. I wiped a bit of the Holy Oil of St. Joseph on it (don't ask me why, I just felt like doing it) and then I prayed a nine-day novena to St. Joseph. Of courseI prayed to God first and asked Him to answer my prayer inaccordance with His will. And the result: my first housesold after 10 days and my second house after 12 days!
There is really nothing wrong with burying a St. Joseph statue upside down as some people do when they are selling their house. I look at it the same way I look at other religious rituals, less as performing the suggested ritual to exact specifications and more as a leap of faith, believing that St. Joseph will pray for us if we we ask him to intercede for us.
Francis X. Weiser pointed out in his book, "The Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs", that if these rituals are practiced in the right spirit, that is, based on the belief that the saints pray and intercedes for us, and without what he calls "unreasonable superstition", our belief in the saints' patronage and intercession provides "great consolation in temporal and spiritual need".
Certainly there are other factors involved in selling ahouse quickly at a good price such as the state of the economy, a private sale as against using a real estate agent, etc. But as far as praying for a house to be sold quickly at the right price is concern, it's all about unwavering faith, not in the rituals one performs.
While I believe performing a ritual enhances faith, what matters most is having the faith that God hears and and answers our prayers always in His own time and in His own way, and that the saints are there to pray for us if we ask them.
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