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An aspergillum is used in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican ceremonies, including the Rite of Baptism and during the Easter Season. [3] In addition, a priest will use the aspergillum to bless the candles during Candlemas services and the palms during Palm Sunday Mass. [4] At a requiem, if a coffin is present, the priest will sprinkle holy water on the coffin.
After blessing the holy water, the priest will bless himself and drink some of the holy water. He then stands next to the holy water font holding a blessing cross in his left hand and the aspergillum in his right. Each of the clergy and faithful come forward, drink a little of the newly blessed holy water and then kiss the cross in the priest's ...
In one story, an old woman got the better of a band of spriggans by turning her clothing inside-out (turning clothing supposedly being as effective as holy water or iron in repelling fairies) to gain their loot. [6] On Christmas Eve, spriggans met for a midnight Mass at the bottom of deep mines, and passersby could hear them singing. [7]
The Apostolic Constitutions, whose texts date to about the year 400 AD, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew.It is plausible that the earliest Christians may have used water for expiatory and purificatory purposes in a way analogous to its employment in Jewish Law ("And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement ...
The notorious Colombian assassin known as La Muñeca (Spanish for “The Doll”) has finally been arrested after committing a series of gang-related murders. Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodríguez was ...
Then hours later at midnight Mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown, he allegedly dumped whisky into the holy water and threatened parishioners, the sheriff’s office said.
Aspersion (la. aspergere/aspersio), in a religious context, is the act of sprinkling with water, especially holy water.Aspersion is a method used in baptism as an alternative to immersion or affusion.
A holy water font or stoup is a vessel containing holy water which is generally placed near the entrance of a church. It is often placed at the base of a crucifix or other Christian art . It is used in Catholic , as well as many Lutheran and Anglican churches, to make the sign of the cross using the holy water upon entrance of the church. [ 1 ]