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Third Class Relics are devotional items which have been touched to First or Second Class relics. In many cases these are pieces of cloth, metal, paper, or oil. The church encourages the distribution of these for the purpose of veneration.

Relics are physical objects that have been left behind and are associated with Our Lord and the saints, such as items from Our Lord’s Passion or bodily remains of a saint (“first class relics”) or items they owned or used (“second class relics”). The Church refers to these items together typically as “sacred relics”. Items touched to sacred relics are typically called "third class relics".

Veneration is the practice of showing respect and reverence. The Church teaches that we are part of the communion of saints and that the saints serve as models and intercessors. Through veneration, intercessory prayer, and invocation, we ask the saints to pray for us to God so that our own prayers to God may be more effective, that we may be brought closer to Christ, and successful in our battles against sin. Veneration is not worship. Worship is reserved exclusively for God.

The Fathers of the Church, such as St John Chrysostom and St Augustine, have attested to the miracles of healing and other great works that were granted by God through the veneration of relics and we see those still happening today. In the Bible, we also find several examples including the account of a bleeding woman who was healed after faithfully touching Our Lord’s cloak, and how God healed people of physical and spiritual infirmities through the application of cloths that touched St Paul as well as those upon whom the shadow of St Peter fell. It’s important to note that it is not the relic doing the healing, but God and His Grace working through it.

Yes. As part of our ministry we operate this shop but we also have distributed hundreds of thousands of third class relics each year for free. To request a free card please follow the instructions on our page at https://www.dnjc.org/free

The cost for the items in our shop is for the tangible item, namely its production and shipping. There is no charge for touching the items to the sacred relics. We strive to keep costs low to avoid any appearances to the contrary and make third class relics available for the sacred relics in our care for free as noted above.

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