On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

He will watch over it, bless ... my house to You, the place You granted me to live with my family and loved ones, and I ask that You wash each of its walls with Your holy and purifying water.

Any priest may confer the blessings of the Church ... He then says the proper prayer or as many as are given. * Lastly he sprinkles the object with holy water, and if called for, incenses it ...

The new pope Leo XIV is scheduled to deliver his first Sunday blessing from the loggia where he first appeared in public ...