Is The Holy Water in the Church's Holy Water Founts Safe?

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Is The Holy Water in the Church’s Holy Water Founts Safe?

With the Swine Flu spreading throughout the world, is the holy water in a church’s holy water font considered safe?

Several week ago, an episode of “House” had a priest hospitalized because he had a form of AIDS that was not sexually trasmitted but caught diseases through the holy water in the church.

Now the subject might be necessary to discuss. Are senior citizens especially at risk because they have the habit of the tradition which will be hard to break. I stopped actually dipping my hands in the water but just make the gesture.

 

[rosemarky]

I believe that Holy Water is just that…Holy Water. I believe that because of that fact it is safe. I also don’t trust the media when it comes to their story lines for these shows. They have more programs that are scare tactic type that many adults believe as true and then the panic ensues. Trust God…use the Holy Water, and trust your Priest to do whats best for his parish.

 

[ohioszo]

I agree perfectly with Rosemarky.

My sister has just come down with the flu. I wonder if it isn’t a milder form of swine flu. She is in contact with the public. I believe that the advice is to wash one’s hands and keep them off of one’s mouth until you wash. The masks prevent one from touching one’s mouth, for instance, if you were to visit your doctor at this time.

 

[lizaanne]

Don’t stick it in your mouth or in your nose and you should be fine. Always wash your hands when you get home from Mass (or shopping), regardless of what’s going on with flu or whatnot.

~Liza

 

[Joe_Kelley]

It is as clean as the door knob and should be handled the same.

 

[TruthisBeauty7]

To op,

your the type of person the Freemasons just love, easy to scare so easy to control. why are you watching such garbage on tv, its a pure waste of time.

your living in fear… They already got you to stop using the sacramental . Just wash your hands when you should and thats it. dont become one of those germ phobes, thats just embarassing to your human dignity.

 

[Newbie2]

Is The Holy Water in the Church’s Holy Water Founts Safe?

With the Swine Flu spreading throughout the world, is the holy water in a church’s holy water font considered safe?

Several week ago, an episode of “House” had a priest hospitalized because he had a form of AIDS that was not sexually trasmitted but caught diseases through the holy water in the church.

Now the subject might be necessary to discuss. Are senior citizens especially at risk because they have the habit of the tradition which will be hard to break. I stopped actually dipping my hands in the water but just make the gesture.

Although I enjoy “House”, many episodes are medical fiction at best. For example, one episode where a dog owner is sick and his dog, that is with him in the hospital, accidentally gets a dose of ivermectin meant for the owner and the dog dies.

House explains that it’s a collie/herding breed that is sensitive to ivermectin, blah, blah, blah, and that ivermectin is used to treat heartworms in dogs. BZZZZZZT. Wrong. Ivermectin is used to prevent heartworms in dogs. If you give ivermectin to a heartworm positive dog, they can have a massive kill-off of the infective form, the microfilaria, and the dog could die from that, not from a reaction to the medication…but that can happen in any breed.

I’m not sure what “dose” of ivermectin the fictional patient was supposed to receive, but collie/herding breeds have to have a massive dose of ivermectin, probably WAY more than what the fictional human in this episode was to receive, and wouldn’t have just died suddenly as in the episode. Good drama for TV, though, although medically deficient.

Brought to you as a public service by your local resident Catholic Veterinarian. Have your dogs checked annually for heartworm (blood test), and keep your dogs and cats on heartworm prevention.

But back to the holy water. HIV spread through holy water? Medical fiction. But a good point, what about the flu, the common cold, etc? Much more likely, methinks, especially in the little containers by the doors (that hold about a cup of holy water…what are they called?). Are they washed out or disinfected regularly? Probably not.

Our parish has the baptismal font right when you walk in with chlorinated, filtered holy water. Guess we’re lucky.

 

[teachccd]

There are just as many, of not more, germs on everything else we touch than what’s in the holy water. If you feel that it makes you feel better then do not use the holy water.

This swine flu (H1N1) has proven thus far to be no more dangerous than the standard flu that goes around every year. The many who die (young and elderly) from the “garden” strains of the flu go unreported so we are not as concerned. So far the numbers are not those representative of a pandemic although an eye should be kept on any strain that is new and could mutate.

Shaking hands during the Sign of Peace and a hundred different ways of contact with others could prove to be just as hazardous as well as anyone speaking to you within a two foot space from your face. Wearing a mask is futile since germs can enter through your eyes.

Take precautions as you would during any cold and flu season but I just don’t see the need for panic as of yet.