Do-It-Yourself Holy Water

The most common users of Holy Water are Roman Catholics. The clear liquid is provided without charge, generally in small basins at the main entrance to churches. Although it is free, the services often involve passing of the basket for monetary contributions, as well as envelopes for the organized giver, and coin boxes for those wishing to light a candle. Holy water is officially believed to remove the stain of lesser sins. Faithful also attribute healing and general health to its application.

The official position of the Catholic Church is that Holy Water is divinely copywrited, that is, it can only be manufactured by an ordained priest. While the reasons for this are said to be doctrinal, exclusive earthly patents and questions of rights have historically been subject to interpretation.

That said, there is simple recipe for making holy water that will certainly be in every physical way an exact duplicate of that manufactured by ordained representatives of the Roman Catholic Church. There is a body of evidence and speculation to indicate that this home-made Holy Water may also have physical and spiritual healing and curative powers equal to or greater than any every made.




RECIPE FOR HOLY WATER

Ingredients when combined and sanctified will create one litre of Holy Water

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon sea salt. I prefer granulated Kosher Salt for its historical
nuance and purity. However, there are medical
benefits to iodized salt as well, and you may wish
to use it, particularly if you do not eat much seafood

1 litre of mountain spring water.
The plastic sport bottle with a screw-off top is
Acceptable

Place the teaspoon full of salt on a new paper plate. The cheapest paper plates are best for this, the kind you get 1500 in a big box, because they are sanitary, and they bend easily.

Make the sign of the cross over the salt. This is done with a vertical slash of the hand, up to down, followed with a horizontal movement, left to right. As you go through these motions, say out loud or in your mind, the words, “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” For those of looser strictures who may still wish to make their own Holy Water, a raised palm of benediction over the salt, this gesture full of good intentions, should suffice.

Then, the exorcism of the salt must be exorcised. You may speak or think the following, in effect talking to the salt and telling it to shape up: “God’s creature, salt of the earth, I cast out the echo of evil by the living God, by the one true God, by the Holy God, through whom all things have their being. May you be a purified, living, heavenly salt, bringing health for those who believe. May you be a medicine for body and soul for all who earnestly make use of you. And may all evil fancies be driven far from the place where you are sprinkled. And may all unclean spirits be repulsed by the power of almighty God.”

Having driven out the evil in the salt, you next must recite the blessing of the salt: “All powerful and eternal Creator, I humbly appeal to your mercy and goodness, to bless this salt, a substance that you have given for mankind’s use. May those who use it in good heart find in it a remedy for body and mind. And may everything that it touches be lifted from all that is unclean and freed from any influence of evil. All this I ask in your Holy Name. Amen.

Next, make the sign of the cross or the raised palm of benediction over the plastic 1 litre bottle of spring water. Now the water must be exorcised:

You may speak or think the following, in effect talking to the water and telling it to be of goodness: “God’s creature, water of the earth, I cast out the echo of evil by the living God, by the one true God, by the Holy God, through whom all things have their being. May you be a purified, living, heavenly water, bringing health for those who believe. May you be a refreshment for body and soul for all who earnestly make use of you. And may all evil fancies be driven far from the place where you are sprinkled. And may all unclean spirits be repulsed by the power of almighty God.”

Having driven out the evil in the water, you next must recite the blessing of the water: “O powerful and almighty Creator, who for man’s welfare established the most wonderful mysteries in the substance of water, hearken to this prayer, and pour forth your blessing on this element. May this creature of yours, when used in your mysteries and endowed with your grace, serve to cast out demons and to banish disease. May everything that this water touches be delivered from all that is unclean and hurtful; through your Holy Name. Amen.”

Now carefully take the lid from the bottle and pour the salt into the water in the form of a cross, saying; “May this heavenly salt and water unite in harmony, in the name of the Almighty God, Amen.” This may be accomplished by folding the paper plate into a funnel and slowly and carefully allowing it to trickle into the bottle in the shape of an “X”.