What belongs in the Holy Water Font?

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My guess is that they should be filled with Holy Water. 🤷

One year they were empty of Holy Water during the entirety of Lent. A flower was placed in them instead.

That stopped.

Lately, I have noticed the flowers are back, floating in the Holy Water.

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I would imagine this is the work of a person who may be a little misguided in their piety? The holy water font is not a flower bowl. If the person wishes to decorate the church, a separate bowl or vase of water should be used. Even the fact that the flowers can end up fouling the holy water should be enough to cause a person to desist…Perhaps a little note near the font suggesting that a bowl of ordinary water should be used instead of the font?
 
What belongs in an inkwell?
What belongs in a wine barrel?
What belongs in a dog house?
What belongs in a water bottle?

This game is easy.
 
japhy said:
What belongs in an inkwell?
What belongs in a wine barrel?
What belongs in a dog house?
What belongs in a water bottle?

This game is easy.
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Easy:
Ink
Wine
Husbands who angered the wife
Water, unless your name is Michael Vick.
 
japhy said:
What belongs in an inkwell?
What belongs in a wine barrel?
What belongs in a dog house?
What belongs in a water bottle?

This game is easy.
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Given what’s floating in the ones at my parish, apparently not. 🤷
 
Trishie said:
I would imagine this is the work of a person who may be a little misguided in their piety?
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Never underestimate the damage that can be caused by Art & Environment people with too much time on their hands and too little theological instruction in their heads.
 
Speaking of having too much time on my hands, I’ve always wanted to secretly replace the holy water in the font with clear, thick gelatin, but that wouldn’t be nice.
 
In the 80s and 90s a fair number of them had SAND. You know, to remind us of the ‘desert’ of Lent, etc.

Lord have mercy.
 
Tantum_ergo said:
In the 80s and 90s a fair number of them had SAND. You know, to remind us of the ‘desert’ of Lent, etc.

Lord have mercy.
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In the parishes of Oregon and Washington, this bizarre custom is often still practiced.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
In the parishes of Oregon and Washington, this bizarre custom is often still practiced.
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Really? Where?
Cavaille-Coll said:
Speaking of having too much time on my hands, I’ve always wanted to secretly replace the holy water in the font with clear, thick gelatin, but that wouldn’t be nice.
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Oh, you’re bad. I bet you actually do the things you think up–the ones that aren’t sacriligeous!–don’t you?

I want to sit next to you. 👍
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
Speaking of having too much time on my hands, I’ve always wanted to secretly replace the holy water in the font with clear, thick gelatin, but that wouldn’t be nice.
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throw in a few goldfishys

if anyone complains remind them of the fish and bread story.
 
dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Apr/apr16btf.htm
Father Corapi said that people from around the U.S. have been telling him for the past 2 years that when they stop at an obscure Catholic church somewhere, they’d see this naked woman on a cross. Father Corapi also said one woman saw a crystal in the Holy Water fountain, and she asked the priest at that church if he knew what that was, and he said, “Of course, I do. Don’t be scandalized. We must be open to power from all sources.” Crystals are, of course, important New Age symbols. On April 20, 1999, MSNBC aired a story by Jeannette Walls about British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie, snapping up a crystal pendant after discovering that Hillary Clinton wears one to help her deal with stress.
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1holycatholic said:
dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Apr/apr16btf.htm
Father Corapi said that people from around the U.S. have been telling him for the past 2 years that when they stop at an obscure Catholic church somewhere, they’d see this naked woman on a cross. Father Corapi also said one woman saw a crystal in the Holy Water fountain, and she asked the priest at that church if he knew what that was, and he said, “Of course, I do. Don’t be scandalized. We must be open to power from all sources.” Crystals are, of course, important New Age symbols. On April 20, 1999, MSNBC aired a story by Jeannette Walls about British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie, snapping up a crystal pendant after discovering that Hillary Clinton wears one to help her deal with stress.
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It is very important to realize that “New Age” is not an organized movement. It is the most not-organized thing you can imagine. It is so based on individualism that it is more or less a do-it-yourself method for not only creating a new religion, but also for tailoring your present mainstream religion to yourself. You like unicorns? Great, incorporate some unicorns. Lots of colors? Fine. Whatever. If you pray better when you burn something that gives your house a funky smell, then go ahead and burn something.

Part of this doesn’t come from a bad place, necessarily. It comes from things like the 12-Step programs telling people to rely on “God as you understand God” or “your Higher Power”. Twelve step programs aren’t places to discuss theology, but rather places to quit trying to run your own life before you kill yourself with your addictions. If you have even a slight, foggy idea of who God really is to you, that will do far more to keep you clean and sober than all the ideas and ideals in the world. Recovery is not the time to quibble over theological principles. If it takes a crystal to get you to hand your life over to God or you can’t pray without looking up at the lefthand corner of your bedroom ceiling, then go with that. Getting a clearer view of God will come in time.

Part of it, though, comes from an infatuation with novelty, sensuality, and emotion. If something was “discovered” recently or only a few people know it, or it was dug up in some remote corner of the globe where they don’t have electric lights yet, then it must be more true. This is why you’ll get New Agers wearing rosaries like necklaces. To them, a rosary is just a tradition that needs a new twist. If something makes you feel good or engages more of your senses or makes you pay attention to your senses, if it gives an experience beyond words, then it must be more spiritual. God gave us our senses to use in worship, prayer, and sacrament, but prudence must be exercised. If a “spiritual practice” leads to or cements an enslavement to the senses, deadens the intellectual component of ones’ conscience, or makes a created thing into an idol or a magical talisman, then it is very bad.

How priests let stuff like this into Catholic liturgies and sanctuaries, though: that is what makes a person scratch her head.
 
1holycatholic said:
My guess is that they should be filled with Holy Water. 🤷

One year they were empty of Holy Water during the entirety of Lent. A flower was placed in them instead.

That stopped.

Lately, I have noticed the flowers are back, floating in the Holy Water.

:confused:
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Pick them out and put them in the collection basket.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
In the parishes of Oregon and Washington, this bizarre custom is often still practiced.
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Yep! Our parish also, only they mix our red volcanic dirt with it.:mad:

I’ve been tempted to throw the sand out the door in past Lents. Though, I do wish this was the only abuse in the parish:shrug:
 
Lainey63 said:
👍 Good one! But whose Michael Vick?🤷
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A scuzzball who used to be the Quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons before he went to prison for Dog Fighting. Several months earlier he had been caught at an airport with Marijuana in a “secret” compartment on his water bottle.
 
EasterJoy said:
It is very important to realize that “New Age” is not an organized movement. It is the most not-organized thing you can imagine. It is so based on individualism that it is more or less a do-it-yourself method for not only creating a new religion, but also for tailoring your present mainstream religion to yourself. You like unicorns? Great, incorporate some unicorns. Lots of colors? Fine. Whatever. If you pray better when you burn something that gives your house a funky smell, then go ahead and burn something.

Part of this doesn’t come from a bad place, necessarily. It comes from things like the 12-Step programs telling people to rely on “God as you understand God” or “your Higher Power”. Twelve step programs aren’t places to discuss theology, but rather places to quit trying to run your own life before you kill yourself with your addictions. If you have even a slight, foggy idea of who God really is to you, that will do far more to keep you clean and sober than all the ideas and ideals in the world. Recovery is not the time to quibble over theological principles. If it takes a crystal to get you to hand your life over to God or you can’t pray without looking up at the lefthand corner of your bedroom ceiling, then go with that. Getting a clearer view of God will come in time.

Part of it, though, comes from an infatuation with novelty, sensuality, and emotion. If something was “discovered” recently or only a few people know it, or it was dug up in some remote corner of the globe where they don’t have electric lights yet, then it must be more true. This is why you’ll get New Agers wearing rosaries like necklaces. To them, a rosary is just a tradition that needs a new twist. If something makes you feel good or engages more of your senses or makes you pay attention to your senses, if it gives an experience beyond words, then it must be more spiritual. God gave us our senses to use in worship, prayer, and sacrament, but prudence must be exercised. If a “spiritual practice” leads to or cements an enslavement to the senses, deadens the intellectual component of ones’ conscience, or makes a created thing into an idol or a magical talisman, then it is very bad.

How priests let stuff like this into Catholic liturgies and sanctuaries, though: that is what makes a person scratch her head.
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Quote:How priests let stuff like this into Catholic liturgies and sanctuaries, though: that is what makes a person scratch her head.:Unquote.

I don’t scratch my head…I get very angry and sadly disgusted.
I can only HOPE prayer helps because our beloved priests really need our prayers.
 
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