Do you keep Holy Water in your home?

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I wouldn’t be without it.I bless my kids with it before they go to bed we have it in a font near the door.
 
Deacon_Ed_B said:
Yes. And when we run out, I have an advantage, because I can bless some more.
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Deacon Ed B
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Deacons can bless water? I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that thier hands were consecrated. Learn someting new each day.
 
The easies way to ensure a long supply of Holy Water is to have a drum of salt blessed.

To ‘make’ Holy Water you simply dissolve some of the Blessed Salt in the water and it is ready for use.

Lasts practically ages.
 
I got some Lourdes water today in the mail from the Oblate mission, I will send them a donation…It is a small plastic bottle with a picture of St Bernadette and Mary on it…It might hold a 1/4 of a cup of water…It was sent fast…
 
motherofsix said:
Deacons can bless water? I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that thier hands were consecrated. Learn someting new each day.
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I’m fortunate enough to have two friends of mine who are deacons. Each time I see one of them I ask for a blessing as I’m leaving. Once at one parish, they were getting rid of some very nice slightly used bee’s wax candles. I volunteered to accept them to prevent them being thrown away. As I was leaving, I asked the parish priest if he would bless them for me (for the holy souls in Purgatory actually, I frequently burn blessed candles as a prayer for them).

Sadly I was greeted with the reply, “I’d prefer if you took a lttle holy water and traced a sign of the cross on them yourself.” That answer really hurt. I wanted to say, “Father, do you know the difference between a nuclear weapon and a pea shooter !?”

But I didn’t say it. I obediently left with my un-blessed candles. I accepted the refusal. I proceeded directly to the nearest fast food outlet to buy a coffee. As I entered, there was one of my deacon friends - just by happenstance (he actually lives about 15 miles away from there). When he learned what had happened, he was quick to remedy the situation by blessing the candles for me.

Deacons are more than “handy”… to me they’re “beloved”.
 
Gee I am glad he wasn’t my priest…I have never been turned down from having anything blessed

I guess we are now in a do it yourself world…glad you have nice Deacons
 
Miserissima said:
Same here, but it dries up / is used up so quickly! Thank heavens that water (from the local church) is free! 😉
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My holy water font is small and dries up quickly. I learned from someone that I can keep my holy water supply full by adding tap water to existing holy water. This way I don’t have to keep going to church for more. Correct me if this is wrong.
 
Fergal said:
The easies way to ensure a long supply of Holy Water is to have a drum of salt blessed.

To ‘make’ Holy Water you simply dissolve some of the Blessed Salt in the water and it is ready for use.

Lasts practically ages.
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That’s an interesting way around the problem of evaporation Fergal 👍

In a technical sense, the priest or deacon must pronounce the blessing (or make the sign of the cross) over each element… the element of the salt; and the element of the water. So I believe that rather than specifically “holy water”, what you would have there is “holy salt” suspended in the element of water.( Holy salt packs a powerful punch too).Maybe we could hear some other opinions on this ?
 
Beautiful said:
My holy water font is small and dries up quickly. I learned from someone that I can keep my holy water supply full by adding tap water to existing holy water. This way I don’t have to keep going to church for more. Correct me if this is wrong.
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What I try to do Beautiful, is to bring a couple of 1 gallon containers of spring water to a priest who will bless them. I did this 2 years ago and I haven’t run out of holy water yet…using it daily.

I think it is such a wholesome Catholic thing to want to always have holy water available. This desire must surely be so pleasing to God. It’s like desiring holiness. When God sees that particular desire of our heart, He is very quick to compensate for our shortcomings.

I think the method of adding tap water to holy water might be a shortcoming…hoping someone more knowledgeable than myself can give you the specifics. I could offer you this as food for thought though:

If it were an accepted norm to simply add any type of water to holy water, then a priest would only have to bless the water in the font or reservoir at the church once…we could keep adding water to it after that. I think we’re meant to depend a little more on providence.

God Bless you.
 
Yes, but I worry that it may be for all the wrong reasons.

When someone in the house has a bad dream I bless the room with Holy Water.

It can’t hurt.🙂
 
NeedImprovement said:
That’s an interesting way around the problem of evaporation Fergal 👍

In a technical sense, the priest or deacon must pronounce the blessing (or make the sign of the cross) over each element… the element of the salt; and the element of the water. So I believe that rather than specifically “holy water”, what you would have there is “holy salt” suspended in the element of water.( Holy salt packs a powerful punch too).Maybe we could hear some other opinions on this ?
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What is Holy Salt?
 
redrosetea said:
I have always had some , and I am considering getting some Lourdes water. You can order it from the shrine…You have to pay S&H and buy the container
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I got a plastic font with a crucifix for $0.50 at my local Catholic bookstore. I have it hanging by my bedroom door. IT GLOWS IN THE DARK!!! :extrahappy:

I also bring a small bottle on trips with me and I bless my hotel room. 👍
 
Molly2000z said:
What is Holy Salt?
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It used to be more common to bless salt and then the water and then mix a little of the salt in with the water using the prescribed rituals on Sundays (and whenever necessary).

I posted this blessing in another thread a while back in case others asked the same question Molly2000z.

I have a copy of the ritual which dates back to around 1947, but here’s one from one of Father Albert Joseph Mary Shamon’s booklets entitled “Our Lady Teaches About Sacramentals and Blessed Objects” , published in 1992 by CMJ Marian Publishers(Oak Lawn, Illinois):

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made Heaven and earth.

The priest begins the exorcism of the salt:

O salt, creature of God, I exorcise you by the living + God, by the true + God, by the holy + God, by the God that ordered you to be poured into the water by Eliseus the prophet so that its life-giving powers might be restored.

I exorcise you so that you may become a means for salvation for believers, that you may bring health of soul and body to all who make use of you, and that you may put to flight and to drive away from the places where you are sprinkled every apparition, villainy, and turn of devilish deceit, and every unclean spirit, adjured by him who will come to judge the living and the dead and the world by fire. R. Amen.

Let us pray.

Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly implore you in your immeasurable kindness and love, to bless + this salt which you created and gave to the use of mankind, so that it may become a source of health for the minds and bodies of all who make use of it. may it rid whatever it touches or sprinkles of all uncleanness and protect it from every assault of evil spirits. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the Unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. R. Amen.
 
yes definitely. I bring a large bottle to church and fill it up there. the basin sits in the front by the side door. i am very grateful for it. i use it when i feel i need to and i always get a tingly feeling. holy water is one of the best things on earth.
 
NeedImprovement said:
It used to be more common to bless salt and then the water and then mix a little of the salt in with the water using the prescribed rituals on Sundays (and whenever necessary).

I posted this blessing in another thread a while back in case others asked the same question Molly2000z.

I have a copy of the ritual which dates back to around 1947, but here’s one from one of Father Albert Joseph Mary Shamon’s booklets entitled “Our Lady Teaches About Sacramentals and Blessed Objects” , published in 1992 by CMJ Marian Publishers(Oak Lawn, Illinois):

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made Heaven and earth.

The priest begins the exorcism of the salt:

O salt, creature of God, I exorcise you by the living + God, by the true + God, by the holy + God, by the God that ordered you to be poured into the water by Eliseus the prophet so that its life-giving powers might be restored.

I exorcise you so that you may become a means for salvation for believers, that you may bring health of soul and body to all who make use of you, and that you may put to flight and to drive away from the places where you are sprinkled every apparition, villainy, and turn of devilish deceit, and every unclean spirit, adjured by him who will come to judge the living and the dead and the world by fire. R. Amen.

Let us pray.

Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly implore you in your immeasurable kindness and love, to bless + this salt which you created and gave to the use of mankind, so that it may become a source of health for the minds and bodies of all who make use of it. may it rid whatever it touches or sprinkles of all uncleanness and protect it from every assault of evil spirits. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the Unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. R. Amen.
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Thank you.
It’s the first that I’ve heard of it.
 
Molly2000z said:
Thank you.
It’s the first that I’ve heard of it.
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You’re most welcome. At that point, the salt has been “blessed”. Then comes the blessing of the water. Then a little of the salt is poured into the water in the form of a cross (like making a sign of the cross with it) and yet a third concluding prayer/blessing is said by the priest.

If you’ve heard of Father John Corapi, he speaks of some Catholic ladies working in the kitchen of a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. They always use blessed/holy salt in their recipes when preparing food for the addicts…apparently they have a significant success rate with them.

It appears the salt’s use is only limited by our imagination. 🙂
 
okay this is semi-related, but where do you get holy water?

do I just fill my bottle out of the font and the front of the church? or is there like a spigot somewhere?

I’m a convert, but we never covered this!
 
Hi dakotamidnight,
dakotamidnight said:
okay this is semi-related, but where do you get holy water?

do I just fill my bottle out of the font and the front of the church? or is there like a spigot somewhere?

I’m a convert, but we never covered this!
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You can go to the regular font, problem is usually those aren’t clean sources (you may get floaters, in other words). Probably just due to everyone dipping their fingers in them.

Look instead for a small vat with a spigot – usually stainless steel and not in too conspicuous a place. Not all churches have these, but if they do, they’re usually near the main entrance.

mp
 
Yep, I keep holy water around the apartment at all times. 🙂 I currently have no holy water fonts but I am going to buy some soon.
 
motherofsix said:
Deacons can bless water? I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that thier hands were consecrated. Learn someting new each day.
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Our hands are not consecrated as a priest’s. We have the power of blessing, due to our receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, when we become deacons
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B
 
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