People put a finger into the water and then dab their forehead, making the sign of a cross before entering the church for mass. This is known as holy water. Holy water is most common among ...

Prayer for the dead is almost a battle with ... The body may then be sprinkled with holy water. The Lord God lives in his holy temple yet abides in our midst. All may sign the forehead of the ...

Maybe I was starting to understand that the holy water sprinkled on a coffin was a simple and lovely act of ordinary grace and fellowship. Perhaps I started to see it as an utterly human prayer ...

“I have already said prayers at Mass to ask for rain but this will be a ceremony, in which we will take an [effigy] of the Holy Trinity from ... placed on the water supply.