A house blessing normally walks participants through a house, through many rooms of a house or apartment. When you think of blessing a nursing home room as someone takes up residence there, it is odd if you have only an order for a house blessing to fall back on: Irene can no longer walk; the space that is now "hers" is less than one room. St. Michael Lutheran Church, Philadelphia (Germantown), Pa.
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