#12613 Should We Remove Holy Water and Cover Statues in Lent? - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Summary
“Should we remove holy water and cover statues in Lent?” This question opens a discussion on the practices of the season, while also addressing the nature of the Mass as a true sacrifice, the challenges of explaining its mystical elements to Protestants, and the historical changes from the Latin Mass to the new order.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:27 – Should We Remove Holy Water and Cover Statues Doing Lent?
- 12:25 – Is the sacrifice of the Mass symbolic or is it actually Christ continually being sacrificed through time and space in the Eucharist?
- 17:14 – How do you deal with a Protestant who struggles with the mystical or supernatural aspects of the Mass. I mean, consuming flesh and blood is pretty out there.
- 37:10 – After the collect, does the congregation need to wait until the priest sits down before we sit down? We did it that way when I was a kid, but not anymore.
- 42:25 – Why did the Mass change from the Latin Mass to the new order?
- 47:43 – I’m in OCIA. I wanted to attend a Church that has a Latin Mass. What do I need to know beforehand? I saw on a parish website times for high mass and low mass. What is this all about?
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| 1:22.2 | I like the way you think, Tom. I got a Lent question for you, basically. And it's got three moving parts in it. Three? Yeah, three. I know you're thinking, there's only two, but I added a third one without asking you, but you'll be fine. You're going to be fine. We'll see if I can move with the moving parts. All right. People do a lot of stuff in the parish at Lent, and I want to ask you about that. |
| 1:48.4 | They remove the holy water, and in some places, replace it with sand. |
| 1:49.8 | That's one. |
| 1:56.9 | They cover statues with, you know, they like drape the statues so that you don't see the statues. |
| 1:57.6 | Yep. |
| 2:18.0 | And they stop saying the A word. Alleluia. All right. Um, during, so are we supposed to be doing all those things? Are they all part of the Lenton observation? Yeah, we don't. The Alleluia is out in Lent. Um, okay. So in addition to that, the question you had on Holy Water, now some people of our listeners |
| 2:26.0 | who are relatively younger age may not recall the practice. |
| 2:29.4 | I don't think it's taking place anymore, at least I hope not, where not only did they remove the holy water |
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