St. Joseph Is My Real Estate Agent

We went to our local Catholic Book Store to get a little extra assurance that our home in Nebraska will sell quickly. We purchased the St. Joseph sell your house kit.  If you have never heard of this you can check out the lore behind it at Snopes.com. 

Here is the link: http://www.snopes.com/luck/stjoseph.asp

It is a long held catholic believe that burying a small statue of St. Joseph and saying the appropriate prayers with reverence to St. Joseph will bring about a quick and profitable sell of ones home.

*IF YOU CLICK ON THE PICTURES YOU CAN SEE THEM IN LARGE FORMAT*

Here Kristi is getting ready to plant St. Joe!

You first have to decide where to place St. Joseph and dig the hole.  We decided the best place would be near a little flower bed, beside the driveway  (so he could monitor all those prospective buyers coming and going). As the cartoon at the top of this page suggest there are numerous beliefs on how and where to plant St. Joseph. In the end we decided on a style all our own.

Dig the hole

and place St. Joseph inside(kinda looks like a little St. Joseph Grotto doesn't it?!).

Here is our completed work.

We decided not to bury him all the way under but to put him where he can look out.  Come on St. Joseph do your stuff and find us the perfect buyer!!

~Prayer to St. Joseph~

O, Saint Joseph

you who taught our Lord

the carpenter's trade

and saw to it

that he was always properly housed hear my earnest plea.

I want you to help me now 

as you helped your foster-child Jesus,

and as you have helped many others

in the matter of housing.

I wish to sell this property

quickly, easily and profitably

and I implore you to grant my wish

by bringing me a good buyer,

one who is ager, compliant, and honest

and by letting nothing impede the

rapid conclusion of the sale.