Story: "Louisiana Church Uses Crop Duster/Plane To Spray Holy Water"

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QwertyGirl said:
For those who think this is a good idea, how would you like it if a witch cast a spell on you without your consent, and did so in a public way?
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Good thing witches have no actual power to do such a thing. Even if they did, it would only backfire on them.

Besides these people are already doing that by “hexing” President Donald Trump. It’s all for show and it means nothing as, again, they have no power.
 
That makes my point then. “Blanket bombing” everyone with Holy Water from a plane will likely have the effect of trivialising what is an important and holy sacramental.
 
You don’t seem to understand the way in which ‘witness’ works. ‘Non believers’ is not genetic or any sort of permanent state. Our witness to Christ and the Church is how we reach and evangelise to others.
 
This reminds me of one of my great uncles who worked as a crop duster in the 1950s and 60s. Of course, he didn’t spray holy water. He dusted crops in an old Stearman biplane with an open cockpit and no facial protection except for goggles. When the wind blew inward, he inhaled a lot of bad chemicals, which eventually killed him.

Let’s all be glad that it was holy water that got sprayed this time, and not DDT or some other toxin. I think the non-Catholics in that town will survive.
 
Emeraldlady said:
“Blanket bombing” everyone with Holy Water from a plane will likely have the effect of trivialising what is an important and holy sacramental.
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It doesn’t trivialize the Holy Water. It isn’t done everyday. It is a one time thing for that town. It would trivialize the Holy Water if it was done everyweek/day. This act only emphasizes the holiness of the act as it is a statement. The statment being: everyone is worthy of being blessed by the One True God.

It only hurts the unholy and evil.
 
OK, either they have faith or they don’t. You’re moving the goalposts… And by putting faith in quotes is a bit absurd.

No, but I’m pretty sure it’s against the law to “force” your religion on someone as well…which is what we’re talking about here.

Which is the point of the discussion here. They were “forcing” it on an entire town, so by being in town you have to accept it. (Full disclosure, this town is unincorporated…so there’s probably between 10-50 residents in it…they were probably all in on it.)

Um, you left off half my question. How can the Church teach in one breath non-Catholic Christians are separated brothers and sisters, but in the other we have no faith?
 
TC3033 said:
No, but I’m pretty sure it’s against the law to “force” your religion on someone as well…which is what we’re talking about here.
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That’s not happening here and it is an insignificant thing to get worked up over.
 
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I would guess any non-Catholic Christians and atheists would just see it as superstitious.
Odd a bit of water vapour can rile up some but forcing a baker or photographer out of business for turning down a business transaction over a gay wedding doesn’t. No one is facing financial ruin over this nor is anyone going to be forcibly converted to Catholicism.
 
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seems like a lot of people liked it, it will become an annual event

he was just continuing a tradition, with an updated delivery system.
Barzare said the flight was so popular he intends to make it a Christmas tradition for his 200-family parish, next year with three times the amount of water.
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Barzare said blessing crops with holy water is a generations-old ritual for the church. “It has roots in what we call the Ember Days, when Catholic priests would travel around the rural parishes, particularly at harvest time, and bless the fields and the crops and the community that tends them,” he said.(guardian)
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TC3033 said:
I just find it interesting to read that, as a non-Catholic, my “rights aren’t important” or “irrelevant”
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I think that’s out of line as a general statement, but I’m not sure if they extend in this scenario.
 
I’m interested to know why you choose to feel violated versus letting it go? Not trying to be argumentative. Just want to understand.
 
Emeraldlady said:
That makes my point then. “Blanket bombing” everyone with Holy Water from a plane will likely have the effect of trivialising what is an important and holy sacramental.
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Possibly. It is within the power and the wisdom of the bishops to stop such things if they decide to. I doubt it though and here is why:
  • This will probably never become a normal and mainstream thing. It was something done in a rural town that is familiar with farming.
  • It was done specifically on Christmas, not as a routine the way people use holy water fonts in a sanctuary.
One of the non-Catholic posters here was absolutely correct that reverence is a largely subjective thing, because unless something is explicitly prohibited (such as grabbing the Eucharist instead of receiving the Eucharist, for example) than it is probably feasible. Holy water or holy salt or rosaries or other sacramentals are used in all sorts of mundane settings and they have never been something exclusively in the purview of a well-decorated sanctuary. Soldiers in the trenches in WW1 carried rosaries around in attire saturated with dirt and sweat and possibly blood and possibly even worse things than that. Firefighters sometimes carry a blessed item with them in a setting where it could theoretically get incinerated.

Some people (maybe even many people) might see this and roll their eyes, but as a former protestant I know they are rolling their eyes either way. They think we’re weird for parading around a statue of the Blessed Mother. They think we’re weird for having holy water fonts in Church. They think we’re weird for confessing sins to a priest. They think we’re weird for lighting candles and saying prayers for the dead. I could go on. At some point you just have to not worry about it so much and if the question gets brought up, we should answer it calmly with a smile as best as we are able to.
 
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" Drop down dew from above, you heavens, and let the clouds cropdusters rain down the Just One…"

@Isiah – there. fixed it for ya! 😀
 
Do you have any verifiable sources? An unnamed person giving their opinions on YouTube, which channel is linked to a dead website (when I google the name of the channel, the other website is blocked by my spam malware protection), is not what anyone would call a verifiable source.
 
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