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From chemistry view it has…doubt they use distiller or purificator 🙂
 
Last year during Lent Mass helpers slip all things on the floor.
They felt so embarassed,but it can happen to anyone
 
Kts1816 said:
From chemistry view it has…doubt they use distiller or purificator 🙂
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Do you mean it is treated water as it is from the main water supply,. so it has been purified by chlorine or whatever they use nowadays? Yes, that’s true. No salt is added by the parish, though.
 
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There are no regulations on what sort of container is used. MANY people use plastic water bottles. As long as you are not putting in something as a means of being snarky or otherwise disrespectful, use what you have.
 
Our parish ran out of the standard bottles made and printed with designs for Holy Water, so until the new shipment arrived, we used medication bottles donated by a parishioner-pharmacist. I found that actually worked out really well - the child proof lid prevents leaks and spills, the amber color reduces light penetration for growth of unwanted organisms, easy travel, etc. Most of the pharmacies around us would give away a single unlabeled empty bottle if asked.
 
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Cor_ad_Cor said:
Our parish ran out of the standard bottles made and printed with designs for Holy Water, so until the new shipment arrived, we used medication bottles donated by a parishioner-pharmacist. I found that actually worked out really well - the child proof lid prevents leaks and spills, the amber color reduces light penetration for growth of unwanted organisms, easy travel, etc. Most of the pharmacies around us would give away a single unlabeled empty bottle if asked.
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I use them too.

I also use them sometimes for the Holy Oils. I take them to the Chrism Mass to be filled then use them to transport the Oils back to the parish. The seals hold tight!

I don’t mean the mediation bottles for pills though, I mean the glass bottles with the screw-tops. The laboratory-grade ones. They’re not expensive when bought in bulk.

Good point you made about a pharmacy probably willing to give away one or a few of the typical pill bottles.
 
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So you put salt???
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Sure.

The practice of putting salt into the water comes no doubt from the incident of the miraculous cure of the poisonous well (see 4 Kings 2.19-21), where the prophet Eliseus used salt to purify the water of the well.

The exorcism of salt comes first:

God’s creature, salt, I cast out the demon from you by the living + God, by the true + God, by the holy + God, by God who ordered you to be thrown into the water- spring by Eliseus to heal it of its barrenness. May you be a purified salt, a means of health for those who believe, a medicine for body and soul for all who make use of you. May all evil fancies of the foul fiend, his malice and cunning, be driven afar from the place where you are sprinkled. And let every unclean spirit be repulsed by Him who is coming to judge both the living and the dead and the world by fire.

All: Amen.
Let us pray.
Almighty everlasting God, we humbly appeal to your mercy and goodness to graciously bless + this creature, salt, which you have given for mankind’s use. May all who use it find in it a remedy for body and mind. And may everything that it touches or sprinkles be freed from uncleanness and any influence of the evil spirit; through Christ our Lord.

And then later (after the water alone is blessed)

Now the priest pours the salt into the water in the form of a cross, saying:

May this salt and water be mixed together; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit.

(from the Roman Ritual)
 
I knew that salt has cured,has these abilities but never saw it…Thanks
 
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