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[ishnianqueen]

Hi all. I just got back from a pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. One of our stops was to Philippi and the stream where Paul baptized Lydia. Many of my fellow pilgrims got little things to put the water from the stream in…I’m kind of presuming holiness since a) it’s the stream where Paul baptized Lydia and b) they built an outdoor altar at the spot and a baptistry not too far away.

Anywho, one of my friends was saying how he wanted to save a jar of the water for his firstborn child’s baptism (knowing him, it won’t have to be saved for too long after he gets married, which, knowing him and his GF, also won’t be in too long). While I think it’s a neat idea…can you do that? I know you can bring your own priest for a wedding, but I’ve never heard of anyone supplying their own chrism for Confirmation. Can you bring your own water?

 

[gvogt4]

My daughter was baptized with water brought back by my aunt from the Jordan. It was placed in the baptismal font and blessed by the priest as any other water would be.

 

[Catholig]

Hi all. I just got back from a pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. One of our stops was to Philippi and the stream where Paul baptized Lydia. Many of my fellow pilgrims got little things to put the water from the stream in…I’m kind of presuming holiness since a) it’s the stream where Paul baptized Lydia and b) they built an outdoor altar at the spot and a baptistry not too far away.

Anywho, one of my friends was saying how he wanted to save a jar of the water for his firstborn child’s baptism (knowing him, it won’t have to be saved for too long after he gets married, which, knowing him and his GF, also won’t be in too long). While I think it’s a neat idea…can you do that? I know you can bring your own priest for a wedding, but I’ve never heard of anyone supplying their own chrism for Confirmation. Can you bring your own water?

It seems like a neat idea - however! Why would the water from that stream be important? After all the water that Lydia was baptized in probably has flown down the stream and into the ocean or lake more than a thousand years ago… It is a new stream, with new water flowing through it. Even the banks & bottom may have been eroded somewhat!

Catholig

 

[Windmill]

It is most likely for the symbolic value of the water.

Since chrism is specially blessed by the bishop, you can’t supply your own. Water is just that - water.

 

[ishnianqueen]

My daughter was baptized with water brought back by my aunt from the Jordan. It was placed in the baptismal font and blessed by the priest as any other water would be.

Well, it wouldn’t be that much water - pretty much there’s only enough in the vial to pour over the head.

 

[gvogt4]

Well, it wouldn’t be that much water - pretty much there’s only enough in the vial to pour over the head.

I would think if there’s enough to pour three times, ok, but I’m sure the priest could best direct you whenever the time comes.

 

[Brendan]

Jone’s Moral Theology ( a pre-Vat II textbook on both Sacramentology and Moral Theology) has guidelines in it for adding water from the Jordan or other symbolic water.

You add in a drop of the symbolic water into the water the priest has blessed for the Baptism.

Other Blessed Water, such as if a parent wished to add water from when they were Baptized, it can be added in any amount.

(When I read that, I began reserving some the Baptismal water used to baptize our children so it can be added to the font when their children are baptized))