Detroit priest goes viral after squirting socially-distanced blessings from a water gun

[babylonsister]

Detroit priest goes viral after squirting socially-distanced blessings from a water gun


DETROIT – A priest from Grosse Pointe Park’s St. Ambrose Parish has gone viral after blessing churchgoers with holy water from a squirt gun during Easter.

Father Tim Pelc told Buzzfeed News that he wanted to find a way to safely continue the tradition of blessing Easter baskets amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

“The original idea was to do something for the kids of the parish,” Pelc told BuzzFeed News. “They were about ready to have an Easter unlike any of their past, so I thought, what can we still do that would observe all the protocols of social distancing?”

Pelc decided the safest way to bless patrons without close contact was by spraying them with a water gun full of holy water. The parish posted photos to their Facebook page showing Pelc wearing a protective mask, shield and gloves as churchgoers lined up in their vehicles the Saturday before Easter.

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https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/17/detroit-priest-goes-viral-after-squirting-socially-distanced-blessings-from-a-water-gun/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Kinda destroys the mystique of 'holy water'

when it's dispensed from a squirt gun.

[Bayard]

2. Its been used against vampires for years

[crickets]

3. Not only that, there's nothing to say the water / squirt gun are germ free.

Points for creativity, I guess.

[Alex4Martinez]

4. Can we shoot sacramental wafers (hosts) out of a Pez dispenser?

I sincerely admire the priest for finding ways to distance and not being a dick like other church leaders.