Incense

Dancers in Mexico City burning copal in clay sahumadores, with thick white smoke rising

How to Burn Copal Resin: The Latin American Cat...

Copal is a family of tree resins, from Mexico and Central America and from Southeast Asia. How to burn it on charcoal, how Mexican Catholics use it on Día de...

How to Burn Copal Resin: The Latin American Cat...

Copal is a family of tree resins, from Mexico and Central America and from Southeast Asia. How to burn it on charcoal, how Mexican Catholics use it on Día de...

Golden ceramic incense burner with smoke rising from resin on lit charcoal.

How to Burn Myrrh Resin: A Catholic Guide

Myrrh burns like frankincense, only a little slower. Four steps to burn it on charcoal at home, why it has held a place in Catholic tradition since the Magi, and...

How to Burn Myrrh Resin: A Catholic Guide

Myrrh burns like frankincense, only a little slower. Four steps to burn it on charcoal at home, why it has held a place in Catholic tradition since the Magi, and...

Open roll of quick-light charcoal discs on a wood altar, one disc lit over a candle flame

Quick-Light Charcoal Tablets: What They Are and...

Quick-light charcoal — the small disc that makes resin incense work. What it is, how it lights, how to keep it from going stale in the cabinet, and how much...

Quick-Light Charcoal Tablets: What They Are and...

Quick-light charcoal — the small disc that makes resin incense work. What it is, how it lights, how to keep it from going stale in the cabinet, and how much...

Hand holding a Catholic hand censer mid-swing, smoke trailing behind in an indoor devotional setting

How to Use a Hand Censer or Thurible at Home

A hand censer is a small metal incense burner suspended on a chain — the traditional Catholic vessel for incense in personal prayer. How to light it, swing it, and...

How to Use a Hand Censer or Thurible at Home

A hand censer is a small metal incense burner suspended on a chain — the traditional Catholic vessel for incense in personal prayer. How to light it, swing it, and...

Tea light inside a ceramic resin incense burner with frankincense tears warming on the ceramic above

Can You Burn Resin Incense Without Charcoal? An...

You can burn resin incense without charcoal, but we tested it and the difference is real. What tea-light and electric warmers actually deliver, why charcoal releases far more fragrance, and...

Can You Burn Resin Incense Without Charcoal? An...

You can burn resin incense without charcoal, but we tested it and the difference is real. What tea-light and electric warmers actually deliver, why charcoal releases far more fragrance, and...

Golden frankincense resin tears in a wooden bowl beside an open Bible page, soft natural light.

How to Burn Frankincense Resin: A Catholic Trad...

Frankincense is the dried sap of the Boswellia tree, harvested in Oman and Somalia. The bright, lemon-pine resin Catholic Masses have used for two thousand years — and the same...

How to Burn Frankincense Resin: A Catholic Trad...

Frankincense is the dried sap of the Boswellia tree, harvested in Oman and Somalia. The bright, lemon-pine resin Catholic Masses have used for two thousand years — and the same...