Many people who have been Catholic for a length of time come to have a similar problem. Just what do you do with all the blessed sacramentals you have accumulated that have seen better days?
You have worn a scapular so long that you can no longer tell which image is the front or the back or it has become so tattered that it is basically now a string.
Your cat or your own clumsiness has knocked over a statue so many times that the hands, arms, and even the head are reattached multiple times with superglue.
You have a drawer full of rosary parts from broken rosaries you are going to get around to fix one day.
Or perhaps the crucifixes broken and now accidentally a Tau cross and you’re not a Franciscan. Or the ones where, apparently, Jesus answered the mocking Pharisees by coming down from the Cross.
Then there are the tarnished and corroded religious medals that you’re keeping around or will clean up later.
So exactly what do you do about this?
Eventually, sacramentals wear down. Crucifixes break, as do rosaries. Candles burn out, and scapulars tear. If a sacramental reaches a state where it is beyond repair or its effective use, the object should be disposed of properly. Even in a tattered state, the object has been blessed by the Church and should be treated correctly, even in private possession.
The proper way to dispose of a sacramental is to burn it or bury it. Not only do these methods of disposal show the correct reverence, but they prevent the sacramental from falling into the wrong hands and from desecration—the loss of a particular quality of sacredness. Sacramentals are desecrated by abusive behavior, crude use, or destruction to the point of being unusable. Even desecrated sacramentals, to maintain the reverence due to them, should be disposed of in the ways laid out above. Shaun McAfee, Catholic Answers magazine
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