Instructions For Your St. Joseph Statue and Selling Your Home
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When homes are slow in selling, St. Joseph makes an appearance somewhere in America’s front lawn helping to provide divine support. Even I used the ubiquitous statue during a particularly slow period when I was selling my last home. And it did sell shortly after we buried the statue.
Since the slowdown in real estate sales has happened, sales of the statues have taken off. I figured I would be of help and offer some advice and directions on the burial of the St. Joseph statues.
Directions for burying a St. Joseph Statue:
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Dig a hole near your For Sale sign by the street approximately 3 inches deeper than the statue. If you have no yard, use a large plant pot.
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Place the St. Joseph statue facing the street in the hole.
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When covering the statue, prayers should be said. They are very often included in the packaging. I have the prayer at the end of this post past the jump.
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Once you have sold you home, remove the statue and place in your new home.
And there you go. Again, many will scoff at the use of the statue but when the market is slow and you are a believer, it can not hurt.
PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH FOR SELLING A HOUSE
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 [house/property] quickly, easily, and profitably and I implore you to grant my wish by bringing me a good buyer, one who is eager, compliant, and honest, and by letting nothing impede the rapid conclusion of the sale. Dear Saint Joseph, I know you would do this for me out of the goodness of your heart and in your own good time, but my need is very great now and so I must make you hurry on my behalf. Saint Joseph, I am going to place you in a difficult position with your head in darkness and you will suffer as our Lord suffered, until this [house/property] is sold. Then, Saint Joseph, i swear before the cross and God Almighty, that i will redeem you and you will receive my gratitude and a place of honour in my home. Amen.via Lucky Mojo
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Comment by JadeEJF on 5 September 2007:
Entertaining post
Comment by kermit johnson on 7 September 2007:
It is the faith that makes this work… not the superstition about which way the statue has to face. This is not voodoo or magic.
Prayers to St. Joseph have helped many of my sellers. I’m a believer.
Comment by agala on 20 December 2007:
HELLO, HOW ARE YOU, PLEASE CAN YOU ASSIST ME BUY A HOME, WHAT ARE YOUR REQUIREMENT
Comment by Some Guy on 23 May 2009:
Thanks for providing the prayer on St. Joseph’s statue!
Comment by Joe on 21 June 2009:
I heard about this activity a long time ago. When I put my house on the market two years ago, I made a promise to St. Joseph that I would never do this to him and would discourage others from doing it. My sign went up Friday afternoon, a knock on the door Saturday, and papers were signed Monday. God bless St. Joe
Comment by toppop on 30 July 2009:
Read about St Joseph, and just for kicks buried hin on Friday afternoon and had a contract on the house on Tuesday. The house had been on the market for 6 mos.
Comment by Uncle_Anesthesia on 23 August 2009:
I find this all quite humorous yet disturbing. The agnostic part of me finds this to be superstitious hocus pocus. The Christian part of me finds this to be idolatry that has been forbidden since the Old Testament. Either way, sounds kind of stupid.
Comment by nancy on 6 September 2009:
What if you don’t have a For Sale sign? They are not allowed in our development.
Comment by SSR on 22 October 2009:
I HAVE READ TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS, ONE FOR ST JOSEPH TO BE FACING THE STRET, ANOTHR FOR HIM TO BE FACING THE HOME TO BE SOLD, WHICH IS CORRECT
Comment by St. Joseph Statue James on 31 October 2009:
I hope this would really help me
Comment by Kara on 7 November 2009:
My mom told me to put the statue in the ground, just seems wrong to me but I did it.
I agree with the gent who said, “The agnostic part of me finds this to be superstitious hocus pocus. The Christian part of me finds this to be idolatry that has been forbidden since the Old Testament. Either way, sounds kind of stupid.”
Anyway, been buried in my yard for over a year. Still haven’t sold my house. She tells me to look up the prayer and say it. I read this bit:
Saint Joseph, I am going to place you
in a difficult position
with your head in darkness
and you will suffer as our Lord suffered,
until this [house/property] is sold.
And I have to say, WTF? For real? St Joseph should be one pissed off saint. “O HAI, Imma torture a statue of you until you do as I say!”