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Should I use the holy water I have left over from last year for personal use in the home (maybe two ounces), or do I need to get the newly blessed holy water from this morning’s Easter service?

If the later, how should I treat the “old” holy water.

Or does it matter? I’ve just always used it up and got new when I ran out in the past.

I’d just never really thought of that before.
 
Should I use the holy water I have left over from last year for personal use in the home (maybe two ounces), or do I need to get the newly blessed holy water from this morning’s Easter service?
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If the later, how should I treat the “old” holy water.
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Or does it matter? I’ve just always used it up and got new when I ran out in the past.
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I’d just never really thought of that before.
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Yes, you can use the holy water left over from last year.

If you decide to get new holy water, the old holy water needs to be returned to the ground, like in your garden or flower bed.
 
brad90956 said:
Yes, you can use the holy water left over from last year.

If you decide to get new holy water, the old holy water needs to be returned to the ground, like in your garden or flower bed.
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I never heard of this, that one has to get rid of old holy water because they got new holy water.

-Tim-
 
OK, it looks like there are different opinions, but in reality it looks like it doesn’t matter.

My wife is excited to “return the “old” holy water to the ground” to water a rose-bush we have that St Therese used to give her roses way out of season (I mean, WAY out of season) in response to a prayer of hers, and get new. So that’s what we’ll do.
 
TimothyH said:
I never heard of this, that one has to get rid of old holy water because they got new holy water.

-Tim-
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I think he said to get rid of the old water under the assumption that the OP wouldn’t want to use it anymore if he got new water.
 
speters33w said:
Should I use the holy water I have left over from last year for personal use in the home (maybe two ounces), or do I need to get the newly blessed holy water from this morning’s Easter service?

If the later, how should I treat the “old” holy water.

Or does it matter? I’ve just always used it up and got new when I ran out in the past.

I’d just never really thought of that before.
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In the parish church, holy water is withdrawn for the start of the triduum…that is, it is removed from the fonts and from the holy water reservoir and the holy water is placed in the sacrarium. When the fonts and the reservoir are filled, after the Easter Vigil, it is with the water blessed at the vigil. Thus all is made new, relative to the holy water that is used in connection with the liturgy.

In the case of the faithful who have holy water at home, which they use as a matter of their private devotions, there is no need to dispose of blessed water…the water does not lose its blessing.
 
That’s what I was thinking as well. I still have water from various places around the world. i wouldn’t think of dumping them out, or thinking they had somehow expired. 🙂
 
Holy water evaporates just like regular water. No need to pour it out. 😉
 
I believe the expiration date is at the second coming, you should be ok for a while…
 
pianistclare said:
That’s what I was thinking as well. I still have water from various places around the world. i wouldn’t think of dumping them out, or thinking they had somehow expired. 🙂
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Yes, we have the same, holy water from the Jordan, Lourdes, etc.

Kind of like “in case of emergency break glass.”

The holy water I was asking about is “normal” holy water we use when we go in or leave the house, say rosary, whatever.

Somewhere between two or four years ago my wife said a novena to St. Therese for a specific intention and the day the novena was done, one of her rose bushes bloomed, big time, in the middle of winter, in the snow, in like 2°F. While all the other rose bushes we have were still dormant, leafless and budless. We haven’t got the “new” holy water for this year yet, but we both like the idea of the “old” holy water going to that bush every Easter.
 
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