Lady of Grace Prayer Oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Roll onto the palms before a rosary or novena so the scent rises each time your hands come together.
• Dress a white or blue devotional candle on a Marian altar, anointing from the base up to the wick.
• Touch a drop to a holy card or medal of Mary to dedicate it for daily carrying.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Anoint a petition written beneath a Psalm or a Hail Mary and set it under a candle on her image.
• Add a few drops to a spiritual bath with rose petals when asking for gentleness, comfort and blessing.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the brow, heart and hands as a short consecration before devotional or intercessory work.
• Use it to bless a rosary, prayer book or altar cloth set aside for Marian prayer.

A Simple Working

• Set a white candle beside an image or medal of Mary.
• Roll the oil onto your palms, rub them together and breathe the scent in slowly.
• Anoint the candle from base to wick, naming the person or situation you are praying for.
• Light it and pray a decade of the rosary, or simply speak to her in your own words.
• Touch a little oil to your heart space when you finish.
• Let the candle burn while you sit quietly, then pinch it out and relight it each day until it is spent.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, Mary’s own flower, scattered on the altar or added to a bath.
• A white or pale blue candle, the colours most often used for Marian devotion.
• A rosary, to give the anointing a rhythm of prayer.
• Frankincense, the traditional church incense, burned alongside.

What You Receive

Lady of Grace Prayer Oil, in a 10 ml roller bottle. Made with essential oils and organic rose petals, with a soft scent meant for moments of prayer rather than all-day wear.

Origin & Lore

Our Lady of Grace is the title given to Mary as the one who pours grace on those who ask, pictured with open hands and rays of light streaming from her palms. Anointing with scented oil before prayer is an old devotional habit, and a rose oil dedicated to Mary belongs to the long folk-Catholic tradition of marking prayer with flowers, candles and fragrance.

The rosary takes its name from the Latin rosarium, a rose garden, and the rose has been Mary’s flower for most of Christian history.

The image most people know as Our Lady of Grace comes from the Miraculous Medal, struck after apparitions reported in 1830 at the Rue du Bac chapel in Paris, where Mary was seen with rays of grace falling from her hands.

Roses run all through Marian lore: the white and red rose as symbols of purity and sorrow, the rose garlands that gave the rosary its name, and the roses said to have filled the tilma at Guadalupe in 1531.