fritzoids, 4 months ago

@kyonshi
Isn't this similar to the Sternensinger in Germany? The butcher up my street (and several other houses) have the chalk marking that comes with giving a donation and some consider it a kind of blessing of the house. (I'm near Nuremberg.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_singers

kyonshi, 4 months ago

@fritzoids yeah, I'm from that area as well. The Sternsingers are the closest equivalent, but that doesn't include that judgemental intrusion into your home by someone who can decide to bar you from specific social functions

fritzoids, 4 months ago

@kyonshi
ah. yes. agreed. I was focussing more on the blessing part.

are there more expectations than just donating? Like do you have to offer cookies and sherry (or similar)?

kyonshi, 4 months ago

@fritzoids preparing candles and other stuff for the blessing. I'm actually not that firm on the whole thing as I'm not catholic anyway, my wife is

Tim_Eagon, 4 months ago

@kyonshi I've never heard of that happening here in the US, and I grew up amongst German-Catholics and married into a family of Mexican-Catholics.

Glupinickname, 4 months ago

@Tim_Eagon @kyonshi Oh, this is definitely a thing here in Croatia, but we aren't that geographically far away from Poland.

Two weeks ago, a priest arrived to our house and blessed all five of us (including both cats).

Longplay_Games, 4 months ago

@Tim_Eagon @kyonshi Same here in the US, even in the relatively religious zone of NM where we have posadas that still isn't a thing.

Tim_Eagon, 4 months ago

@Longplay_Games @kyonshi Yeah, priests will come to your house to bless it if you ask, but it's not something I've seen done regularly.