BANNED
Posted on 08/29/2007 7:36:45 AM PDT by NYer
ROME (Reuters) - The real miracle would have been getting it past airport security.
Inspectors at Tarbes-Lourdes airport in France refused to give their blessing to holy water that passengers tried to bring on board the Vatican's new pilgrim flights this week, saying it was a security threat just like any other liquid.
The water, which is said to have miraculous healing powers, came from a sacred grotto where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared in 1858.
Passenger Paola Saluzzi told Corriere della Sera newspaper she was carrying the water in eight small plastic bottles "in the shape of the little Madonna". But it was not allowed on board.
"If they gave preference to the water from Lourdes it would be an (irregularity) that would not guarantee the proper procedure," she acknowledged.
But the Vatican had foreseen such an eventuality and placed a small complimentary bottle of holy water on the seat of each pilgrim to drink on board, Saluzzi said.
The Vatican's chartered Boeing 737 aims to serve 150,000 pilgrims a year. Beyond Lourdes, destinations will range from the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to Mount Sinai in Egypt, where Moses is said to have received the 10 Commandments from God.
Drink?
One Vincent Price’s lessor roles was the prosecutor in “Song of Bernadette”.
Is this a common-carrier airline?
I had thought that
1) it was a charter service
and
2) that charter services operate like general aviation.
Must be!
do these people ever stop to think a healing might run contrary to His plan ?
Ya think? Maybe?
Naw .... it's al-Reuters.
They'd never get a story totally jacked up.
The water, which is said to have miraculous healing powers
More false worship of inanimate objects. It's a death worship, like praying to dead people, by wrongly afixing holiness to matter when the only holiness resides in the Triune God.
But the Vatican had foreseen such an eventuality and placed a small complimentary bottle of holy water on the seat of each pilgrim to drink on board, Saluzzi said.
Shrewd.
“I’ll trust the blood of Jesus instead of majik water”
What about the holy barbecue sauce? That almost burned the hell out of everything.
I shall remain silent on such subjects at the risk of pigeonholing neeners as thread hijackers
N3
It never takes anti-Catholic bigots much time to show up and pee all over everything like yard cats.
**Inspectors at Tarbes-Lourdes airport in France refused to give their blessing to holy water that passengers tried to bring on board the Vatican’s new pilgrim flights this week, saying it was a security threat just like any other liquid.**
Oh, the secular world. If the world needs one thing on some of these flights it IS the holy water.
A priest at St. Benedict Abbey mentioned in his homily last Sunday that they always hold up airport security...even after emptying their pockets of enough religious items to stock a good sized gift shop...rosaries, etc.. (It’s always the priests’ holy oils.) Abbot Gabriel, 86, just throws up his hands and the cops move in.
Nope, all we need is “the covert of His wings.” (Psalm 61:4)
“I shall remain silent on such subjects at the risk of pigeonholing neeners as thread hijackers”
Are you saying we are not thread hijackers? I thought that was our raison d’etre (that’s Greek for something).
Well, after all, the French are not terribly familiar with water, either for drinking or bathing.
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