As a child, I can remember St. Blase day. If St. Blase day did not fall on a Friday, each class would assemble in church and wait in a long line to get your throat blessed. It always took place at the end of the day. On Friday the school students attended mass and the blessing took place after mass. As a young child who hadn't yet made first Holy Communion, this was just so cool. You got to walk up to the altar area just like all the big kids and adults. There was some kind of mystery about how this blessing would keep you from getting sore throats. Maybe it was just luck or a self fulfilling prophecy, but I never got sore throats as a child.
This Saturday was the first time I got my throat blessed as an adult. Parishes don't really add a special mass or blessing in the evening for working adults to get their throats blessed. As an adult I have suffered from numerous sinus infections and those are often accompanied by a bit of a sore throat. I happen to be at mass this morning because we had a CCW recruitment meeting afterwards. I was thrilled to be there for the blessing of the throats. The blessing was done after the homily. I didn't have that special feeling I had waiting in line as I did when I was a kid. There was still a big part of me saying "This is pretty cool."
If I'm lucky maybe St. Blase will ward away any sinus infections.
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