There is a strong devotion to St. Blaise at Holy Ghost Church and we will have a commemoration of his feast day with blessing of throats on the Weekend of February 7.  Those who love Holy Ghost Church and San Biagio have raised funds to create a beautiful statue and have also provided for a new oven and stove for the kitchen in the Church.  There will not be a dinner this year but all of us could use the intercession of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr to God for deliverance from any illness, as the Blessing says:

“Through the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness:         
In the name of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.”

In imitation of the directions we have received regarding Ash Wednesday the blessing will be said once and the faithful may come forward to be blessed briefly in silence.