Objects are Blessed in Catholicism

Why do things need blessings?
Mercedarian Friars USA | 30 April 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XrJjV_B58Y

With God's grace and the prayers of the Church.

A sacrament works ex opere operato. A sacramental ex oratione ecclesiae orantis.

Speaking of which, yes, the material world was cursed, because of Adam's sin, and even if an object is not set aside for holy use, the blessing makes the ordinary use saner and safer. Food and cars are blessed, to name an instance.

Also, you obey the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven ... that includes the handkerchiefs that touched the clothing of Sts Paul and Barnabas, but also other blessed objects. Salt cannot consciously adore, but when salt is blessed it is in some ways ordained to adoring God. "Cellar door is such a beautiful word, if it only meant sth more interesting" ... in French it does. Le "sel adore" ... participative, not on its own.

This is why Mark 10:6 really doesn't accept any important stretch of time before Adam and Eve were created. If you were Protestants and didn't bless objects, you might have a point pretending Col. 1:23 proves it means just the human creation. Nope. You are a Catholic, you bless objects, and so objects are also parts of the creation in which the Gospel is preached.