| Since I came to Canada in September 2000, I | | | | house after 12 days! |
| have moved twice. I first lived in a townhouse | | | | I have nothing against burying a St. Joseph statue |
| and then I moved to a raised ranch type house | | | | upside down as some people do when they are |
| and after 5 years, I moved to a 4 level back split | | | | selling their house. As in all other religious rituals, I |
| house which is just about 5 blocks away from | | | | look at it less as performing the suggested ritual |
| where I used to live. | | | | to exact specifications but more as a leap of |
| I never had difficulty selling the 2 houses I lived in | | | | faith, believing that St. Joseph will pray for us if |
| and when both houses were up for sale, I did not | | | | we we ask for his intercession. |
| bury a St. Joseph statue upside down as was | | | | As Francis X. Weiser pointed out in his book, "The |
| customary. In fact, in both cases, I was able to | | | | Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs", if |
| sell my house after 2 weeks at a reasonable | | | | these rituals are practiced in the right spirit, that |
| price. | | | | is, based on the belief that saints in heaven pray |
| Being a St. Joseph devotee, I did pray and asked | | | | and intercedes for us, and without what he calls |
| for St. Joseph's intercession. But instead of | | | | "unreasonable superstition", our belief in the saints' |
| burying a St. Joseph statue, here's what I did. | | | | patronage provides "great consolation in temporal |
| First, I placed a blessed St. Joseph statue by the | | | | and spiritual need". |
| window in my dining room since this is the window | | | | Surely, there are other factors involved in selling a |
| facing my front lawn and the street. I wiped a bit | | | | house quickly and at a reasonable price such as |
| of the Holy Oil of St. Joseph on it (don't ask me | | | | the state of the economy, a private sale as |
| why, I just felt like doing it) and then I prayed a | | | | against using a real estate agent , etc. But when it |
| nine-day novena to St. Joseph. Of course I | | | | comes to praying for a house to be sold at the |
| prayed to God first and asked Him to answer my | | | | right time and at the right price, it's all about faith, |
| prayer in accordance with His will. And the result: | | | | not in the rituals one performs. |
| my first house sold after 10 days and my second | | | | |