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New York priest drops holy water on city from plane 'to tell the people they are not alone'
With a sprinkling of holy water, and a prayer, the Rev. Juan Benitez performed blessings — from 2,000 feet above.
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“In the beginning, when we suspended all the masses, people were upset,” Benitez said. “They were feeling that we were abandoning them.”
And so it was, on Thursday morning, unable to bless them individually, or as a congregation, he took to the sky to bless the city.