No Holy Water

[starrs0]

Does your Parish empty the Holy Water fonts for Lent?

 

[kage_ar]

Since it is a no-no, our good Priest would not stand for such a thing!

 

[Scott_Waddell]

Yes, ours does. My understanding is that the parish is not supposed to impose what amounts to a sacramental fast. My question is, is it allowable with permission from the bishop?

Scott

 

[JC_Nixon]

Holy Water is not to be removed during Lent, except during the Triduum (see link). Our parish does not remove Holy Water, while our former parish did (which is one of MANY reasons why it is our ‘former parish’!). Nothing irritated me more than coming in to church and having no holy water!

catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/LawText/LawIndex/46

 

[LeahInancsi]

While the holy water fonts are emptied from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper until they are refilled with water blessed at the Easter Vigil, they should not be emptied prior to Holy Thursday. The following letter from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments rejects this practice. Note the strong bias (reason 1) against inventing practices not called for in the liturgical law. Forcibly rejected is the argument used by some to justify their abuses that “It is not forbidden, so I can do it.” In reality, no one may do in that liturgy that which is not prescribed by the Church, specifically the Apostolic See, who alone has authority over it (SC 22, canon 838.

 

[Michael038]

Our parish does not empty the Holy water.

 

[Tonks40]

Not for Lent, but during the Holy Tridiuum.