I’m thinking you want to add a little bleach too ...
He might want to get some bleach and lysol too, knowing what those types tend to get up to during their parades.
Well good on em. A lot of people on our side of the political divide do not seem to grasp the significance of symbolism in this culture war.
Good on ‘im! We can use some of that here, too.
Ty 4 posting and also for the link:
Years ago I first met Ruth, she was at that time 102 years old, and frequently went to Eucharist Adoration (where I was a regular).
She gave me a very old Catholic pamphlet which spoke about the mysteries of Holy Water.
I learned that (like most any thing else) Sacramentals are limited in power only by the disposition of the supplicants who used them.
Anyway, the older generations of the faithful taught us that a sprinkle of Holy Water could be transferred into all people, living or dead.
I bought a Holy Water font, and to this day, I renew my Baptismal vows every day - the font is in front of my door - EVERY day before I step out into my little town - I ask God’s blessings for people who have nobody to pray for them or with them, etc.
From Roman Catholicism's own Catholic Encyclopedia:
Some was permanently retained at the entrance to Christian churches where a clerk sprinkled the faithful as they came in and, for this reason, was called hydrokometes or "introducer by water", an appellation that appears in the superscription of a letter of Synesius in which allusion is made to "lustral water placed in the vestibule of the temple". This water was perhaps blessed in proportion as it was needed, and the custom of the Church may have varied on this point. Balsamon tells us that, in the Greek Church, they "made" holy water at the beginning of each lunar month.
It is quite possible that, according to canon 65 of the Council of Constantinople held in 691, this rite was established for the purpose of definitively supplanting the pagan feast of the new moon and causing it to pass into oblivion.
In the West Dom Martène declares that nothing was found prior to the ninth century concerning the blessing and aspersion of water that takes place every Sunday at Mass.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07432a.htm
This is yet another "tradition" not handed down from the Apostles.
SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE.....Roman Catholic "tradition" has, does and will change.
Please designate your posts CatCauc in the future so I won’t see the likes of ealgeone spewing half-truths, out of context quotes, anti-Catholic bigotry, and slanderous libels!
Dóminus vobíscum.
Wise man.
Also advise antibacterial antiviral.