On Holy Water
Some mystical incantation, some imaginary pseudo pagan nonsense, some exploitation of common trust. Water! Nothing more! Words spoken over it in a dead language, and it acquires some secret holiness to be imparted? Such foolishness! Such damnable (I do not employ that word improperly) presumption! Remember Aaron's sons before you imagine that you can impart grace through a made-up ceremony never mentioned in the Word of God!
The reason I mention this is I attended (by requirement) a "multi-faith blessing" for the new student center. The Roman Catholic priest said some vaguely universalistic prayer and then sprinkled holy water every which way. It was ridiculous.
Holy water! I can't believe that stuff exists in a religion which claims to submit to the true God.
posted by Steven at 10:56 PM
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Why Holy water you might ask.... why not gatorade or a decent wine? Well for Christians, the most important moment of their earthly life is Baptism which must be done with water and the words that Christ told us to use i.e. I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We inherit Heaven at this moment, we become a member of the family of God. There are many other blessings.
In any case, every use of Holy Water to bless ourselves or a place is a reminder of God's graces in giving us our Baptism which we received from His goodness. So that is a partial explanation of holy water.
So when we use it we are praising and reverencing the one true God.
4:09 PM
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