Blessings to You This New Year!
To bless your home for the new year, take a piece of chalk, usually blessed by a parish priest, and inscribe over the doorways these symbolic numbers and letters:
20+C+M+B+22
The numbers represent the current year and the letters stand for the first letters of the traditional names of the magi: Caspar (sometimes spelled “Kaspar”), Melchior and Balthazar. The letters are also an abbreviation for “Christus Mansionem Benedicat,” Latin for “May Christ bless this dwelling.”