Bonus Episode: Blessed Wine

Blessed wine is a underused tool in folk magic. It can be used in healing, protection and even divination. In this bonus episode, we discuss using wine blessed on St. John's feast day for healing and protection, but we also discuss using tarot cards to charge wine, as well as using wine for divination.

As promised, the formal wine blessing ritual is included below:

Let us pray. If it please you, Lord God, bless + and consecrate + this vessel of wine (or any other beverage) by the power of your right hand; and grant that, through the merits of St. John, apostle and evangelist, all your faithful who drink of it may find it a help and a protection. As the blessed John drank the poisoned potion without any ill effects, so may all who today drink the blessed wine in his honor be delivered from poisoning and similar harmful things. And as they offer themselves body and soul to you, may they obtain pardon of all their sins; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lord, bless + this creature drink, so that it may be a health- giving medicine to all who use it; and grant by your grace that all who taste of it may enjoy bodily and spiritual health in calling on your holy name; through Christ our Lord. 

May the blessing of almighty God, Father, Son, + and Holy Spirit, come on this wine (or any other beverage) and remain always. 

Amen.