Holy Water in a Water Gun?

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So I’ve had this idea: Holy Water in a water gun. This would make spreading Holy Water very easy. And if you even encountered a Demon, it would be like the Ghostbuster’s gun lol. However, to me at least, it seems rather irreverent to use Holy Water in this fashion. Whatta you guys thing?
 
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I’ve heard of it being done before. But I think it offends piety and reverence for sacramentals.
 
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I was going to ask if we are hunting vampires but if you are using it on demons they are not affected by Holy things they way you think. It doesn’t hurt them as much as repel in which case anyone can banish a demon with ease.

You just revoke permission for demonic to be in any area you have authority over and they have to leave. Demons and angels are bound by will, if you will them to go they must. Its where most of the power behind “Begone demon” comes from.
 
I’ve heard of Holy Water in spray bottles before and I’ve wondered about that. But I’ve never heard of Holy Water in guns.
 
Nothing but germs in Holy water !
Get it in their demon eyes -
everyone’s dirty finger been in it -
Yes, you got quite the idea !
 
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I agree with you. Holy water needs to go into a container especially made for it. It is irreverent and disrespectful to put it in a water gun. Holy water is a sacramental and very efficacious. You can always offer people some. I got a strange look for doing that the other night, but other times people have wanted some to see if they’d melt. No one has melted so far that I’m aware of.
 
Unclean spirits know the difference. It’s been evident in exorcisms. Sprinkling them with Holy Water is like scalding water on their skin. (not the person, just the unclean spirit).
 
I think there would be too much humour in using a water gun, seriously .
The laughing would take away a lot of the reverence.
 
The Old Colonel has been sprinkled with Holy Water many times. Apart from some slight burning sensation and a few welts and a column of steam rising from my skin, it’s real not too terribly unpleasant.
 
LOL . I also agree that Holy Water should be RESPECTED and put into the proper vessel.
 
Water balloons have more range, and deliver a bigger payload, but there are issues with precision.
 
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The priest already has a small gold plated or bronze instrument which he can dip in a vessel and use to fling droplets of holy water on crowds. I can’t remember the name of it but it looks like a little bronze ball on the end of a stick. They do this on special occasions. I remember it being done somewhere around Easter to the big crowd at Mass.

I’ve gotten hit by a droplet or two from that instrument. It doesn’t stand out from any of the other paraphernalia that they use at mass other than that it can be used to fling holy water.

Father Ripperger has a video in which he recommends ways to combat demons (Spiritual Warfare?? - anyway, something like that . . .) which include things like eating and drinking different blessed oils and salts. If memory serves, I think he recommended consuming holy water as well. Holy water can also be sprinkled around one’s dwelling and other belongings. I think a misting device, more like the mist from a perfume bottle might be more in order, although I suppose you could just use your fingertips.

All that said, I tend to agree with the other posters on the issue of irreverence.

If there were to be something akin to a holy water gun to be developed, I would think it would have to be made of something other then plastic, at least initially. It would have to be a material and a design which dispensed with the comedic aspect. I would think a good start might be something similar to a gun with both a spray and a stream setting, like certain sorts of Windex-type bottles, but made of bronze with both gold plating inside and out.

After that had become more common, an argument could then be made for making cheap pretty ornamental varieties of plain bronze, brass, glass, aluminum (at one time, not long after it was discovered, aluminum was one of the world’s rarest and most precious metals) or plastic for use in poorer regions and for use in and around the home. Rosaries, after all, are made of a variety of materials, some of which are plastic.

It should probably have a ‘trigger’ which could include up to three fingers for added pressure and range because it could then reach the deep interior of large crowds, or at least that could be one of its initial uses.

I doubt that that idea will go very far because masses seem to be fairly traditional and because mass is, after all, a Sacrifice. I don’t really see anything inherently sinful about the idea, it’s just not very traditional, and at this time, it’s still irreverent (but it needn’t continue to be that way). I don’t think God would think there is anything inherently sinful and wrong with a finger pressure hydraulic device other than the jarringly comedic aspect of cheap plastic and explicitly gun-type shapes. It ought to blend with the Sacrificial aspect of the mass and not stand out. I think I’ve denoted a vague sort of ‘path’ (gold plate → bronze → glass → ornamental [perhaps somewhat sparkly] plastic [like a rosary]) for it’s adoption, but I doubt anything will come of it.
 
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The priest already has a small gold plated or bronze instrument which he can dip in a vessel and use to fling droplets of holy water on crowds. I can’t remember the name of it but it looks like a little bronze ball on the end of a stick.
It’s called an aspergillum.
 
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Holy water soaked with garlic in a squirt gun. Vampire kryptonite.
 
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