Getting a second patriarchal blessing?

gualeguaychu · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2009, 11:12 PM

Suppose someone was a member of the church and received a patriarchal blessing, and then fell away from the church or is ex-communicated. If that person later becomes a member in good standing, can they get another patriarchal blessing? It would seem that all of the blessings and promises of the first blessing would be lost due to that persons actions. Has anyone heard of anything like this?

Mormonatalie · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2009, 11:20 PM

"It is [a stake patriarch's] business and right to bestow blessings upon the people, to make promises unto them in the name of the Lord... by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to comfort them in the hours of sorrow and trouble, to strengthen their faith by the promises that shall be made to them through the Spirit of God" (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. [1939], 181).

georgia2 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2009, 11:29 PM

I am a very unusual member of the church because I did get 2 blessings!
Same thing happened to me! I asked the patriarch who was also a member in my ward if such a thing could happen. He told me as long as my Bishop gave me a recommend. I asked my Bishop and he told me as long as the patriarch said he could. SO, I did !
When I got the second one he told me that this new one would replace the first. After the blessing and as I walked out of the office, he called me back and said,"No! It is a continuation!" So even though i have 2, I put them together to get a more complete one!
Good luck on your quest! It can be done!

gualeguaychu · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 12:09 AM

While I am not on a quest to get a second PB, I appreciate your input. I was just asking because as I was reading my PB tonight, I got thinking about how one of the choices I made in life could possibly nullify a portion of my Patriarchal blessing, and then I got thinking about people who might possibly have forfeited all their blessings, and what they would do.

Thanks

MormonMema · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:29 AM

I didn't know this was possible. I've wondered about it, because I feel like I really blew mine, and some of it doesn't seem relevant to me anymore. On the other hand, I've heard that the blessing is good for time and eternity, and if something doesn't come true in this life, it might later.

MormonMema · #6 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:34 AM

I wonder if the same rule holds true for the patriarchal blessing as it does for the temple blessing. When I came back to the church and had my temple blessings restored, I was told that the past was wiped out, and they even restored my original baptism date, and my original endowment date.

georgia2 · #7 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MormonMema

I wonder if the same rule holds true for the patriarchal blessing as it does for the temple blessing. When I came back to the church and had my temple blessings restored, I was told that the past was wiped out, and they even restored my original baptism date, and my original endowment date.

Me too.

Gwen · #8 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:42 PM

i got 2 blessings, about 2 months apart. when i got my first the recorder had something malfunction and the patriarch could not transcribe it. nothing was recorded so he called me back to do it again. i didn't need to get a second recommend for it. i know that's not really what you are talking about.

also know a man that lived to be very old, still alive actually lol i think he's in his 90's, who prayed about his and found it to have been completed... he outlived his blessing. lol he is a patriarch by the way. he went to the bishop and the bishop gave him permission for a new one, so he got a second one.... though i'm not sure who gives a patriarch a blessing, wouldn't think he could do it himself... lol again i know not really what you are talking about.

lol i guess i don't really have anything to contribute.

georgia2 · #9 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:52 PM

If someone outlives their blessing, seems to me they would get their things in order!

rockwoodchev · #10 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 02:54 PM

I have been told that if a person really wants one, they can go get another.

For me, I was 16 and one Sunday morning, my mom came and woke me up and said, "Get your church clothes on, we have a meeting". We drove to a guys house and I got my blessing.

At this point in my life, I was NOT prepared for a blessing of this nature. There is no way that I should have received it, I wasn't worthy, nor was I prepared.

When I described this a few years ago to our stake pres, he said that if I wanted, he would authorize me to get another blessing.