Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today, we're

going to be talking about things that we don't know about holy water.

Yeah, we're going to share with you some things you've never learned about holy water,

like that there's multiple types, how it's used in the church, how it's blessed, and much more.

Hallelujah. Amen.

All right, we'll be back to the studio, guys. Looking forward to this episode. Maybe I think you

bless water. I don't know. The videoquam is actually like an optional chant that you can sing

at a baptism, like definitely from Easter until Pentecost. It's something that is in the

mistletoe still that was retained through the different translations of Vatican II,

but this is the translation. I saw water flowing out of the temple from its right side,

and all to whom this water came were saved, and they shall say, Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

In that beautiful. That's from Ezekiel 47, and it's really been in the tradition of the church

for quite a while. You know, talking about the tradition of the church, I don't think there's

anything that the popular culture and the awareness of the Catholic Church associates more with her

than holy water, whether it's the blessings with holy water, or fighting vampires with holy water,

or baptisms, or there's so many ways the Catholic Church uses holy water, but how many people,

how many times has anyone really considered both the graces, the theology, the efficacy of holy water,

and all the interesting historical facts and the uses around it. It's not something you take for

granted. You walk in, dip your head, sound the cross, and then you're on your way. But holy water

is an incredibly powerful sacramental in the church. And I think that's a really good point to

start with, Shil, because I think we could look at the holy water, associate it with baptism and say

it's a sacrament, but there's a distinction to be made. The water itself is not the sacrament.

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