Bless this house

The move is complete! A few things need yet to be unpacked, curtains need to be arranged, art needs to go up on the walls, but these are details. A friend who is a priest came by after church today for the Blessing of a Home. It's a lovely liturgy which blesses each part of a residence, naming and consecrating what takes place there. Each room is sprinkled with water with a bit of salt in it, each of these having been first purified of dark spirits (not quite not an exorcism!); we trust that our improvised substitutes for the recommended hyssop did the trick!