Do you do this before entering the confessional?

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I’m not sure what this has to do with the elderly… Do they melt when holy water is thrown on them?

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Holy Water is not necessary for baptismal validity. Any water will do.
 
@JoeFreedom said that the person dips the hand and then shake the water onto the floor.
I’m simply thinking about others going and slipping, so… my comment follow.
 
What I meant was that there was nothing irreverent or disrespectful about throwing Holy Water on the floor. And if there’s carpet, I doubt anyone would slip anyway.

But in the future, I shall labor to be extremely precise in every single answer I give, so as to remove any doubt as to what I mean.
 
No I would not. Holy Water is to wash away sins. So is confession. No need for Holy Water before confession.
 
I keep a vial of holy water in my drawer at work and about once a month I spray it around my work station.

I have another vial in my car and have drank from it a couple of times while praying, if there’s something particularly dark at work happening (there’s a LOT of religious mockery at work, not to mention an overall uncharitable feeling).

I imagine the gentleman’s action is to almost recreate the infant baptism in action to focus his mind on what’s really going on.
 
This cathedral has the confessional near one of the entrances to the church where there is also holy water.
 
I remember having our deacon and wife over for a house blessing and the wife telling the deacon to be careful with the holy water and not destroy the wall papers and paintings in my apartment. It is a small apartment and she told him at least 4 times. There were loooooooooooooooooooots of spots on the windows when the holy water had dried. 😃
 
I can’t imagine walking into a church and not using holy water make the Sign of the Cross as soon as I walk in the door.

Hispanics have customs as do others.

We have a young Filipino couple at my parish. The lady leaves the pew and lies prostrate in the aisle immediately after the Sanctus until we conclude the Agnus dei with “Lord I am not worthy…”
 
That sounds really unusual about the Filipino woman. I’ve definitely never heard that.
 
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I can’t imagine walking into a church and not using holy water make the Sign of the Cross as soon as I walk in the door.
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You understand the original post had to do with a fellow who dumped a palm full of holy water onto his head before he entered the confessional? I was looking for an explanation.
 
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I think that holy water fonts are septic (dirty) and I don’t use them. So, NO, I don’t do a superstitious thing like dousing myself with holy water.
 
Only time I have ever saw it as well. First time I saw her I leaned over and look down the aisle to see what she was doing. I recognized what she was doing and just refocused on the Mass.

We have Hispanics who come to my Parish which is open 24/7 because of the Perpetual Adoration Chapel.
I have seen them come in and go straight to the center aisle and drop to their knees. And then approach the Tabernacle on their knees.
 
Yes, but I wasn’t directing my comment toward the op.

Edit to add : what I meant was that every time I go to confession I’m already using holy water I as soon as I enter the church anyway.
 
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The concern of a holy water font being a source of the spreading of some sort of infection is valid. I sure that concern and that is why I carry one of those travel size bottles of hand sanitizer in my pocket. After I cross myself I use it on my hands.

But equating it’s use to Superstition is flirting with blasphemy. Holy Water is a sacramental.
 
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That’s the trouble with message boards. If folks are sitting down at a table having a conversation and something said is misunderstood it can be clarified immediately. Here, you have to wait sometimes for hours or the next day or longer for someone to log back in and explain lol
 
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Our water font is cleaned at least once per week. There is salt in the Holy water and depending upon how much water has dried there can be enough salt to leave nice white marks on your clothes and forehead.

I love seeing the very young children learning to bless themselves with Holy water. It ends up all over their bodies but they are dead serious in what they are doing!
 
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