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incensing

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incensing (inˑ·sen·sing),
n in Curanderismo, the Mexican-American healing system, purification ritual performed to treat businesses, farms, and homes by praying and walking through building with a pan filled with smoking incense. Every corner of the structure is filled with the incense to bring peace and remove bad luck. Also called
sahumerio.


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Donovan, STL, of EWTN, responded as follows: I understand that among Native Americans such rituals have significance, which could be, according to the norms of inculturation, adapted for liturgical use (among them alone, of course)--a kind of incensing.
 
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