{"id":2402,"date":"2009-11-12T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/11\/12\/automatic-holy-water-font\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:57:10","slug":"automatic-holy-water-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/11\/automatic-holy-water-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Holy Water Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The outbreak of the H1N1 virus has led many churches to suspend the tradition of having holy water in open fonts into which people dip their hands.<br \/>\nThe new machine works like an automatic soap dispenser, squirting water when a hand is passed under the tap.<\/p>\n<p>Inventor Luciano Marabese says he is being inundated with enquiries.<br \/>\nAbout 30 people have died in Italy after catching swine flu.<\/p>\n<p>Father Pierre Angelo Mota, from Capriano Briosco, north of Milan, said squirtable holy water had surprised some of his parishoners at first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a bit of a novelty,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People initially were a bit shocked by this technological innovation but then they welcomed it with great enthusiasm and joy. The members of this parish have got used to it,&#8221; he added. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8356019.stm\" target=\"_blank\">[reference]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well how about a Holy Water font that asperses you as you stand in front of it?  Or a cheaper solution is to have ushers with an aspergillum who can sprinkle people as they come in.  Well I guess the positive side is that liturgists will have a hard time placing sand or marbles in an automatic Holy Water font.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Though I do wonder if scientifically the Holy Water font is actually a risk in the first place. But I can understand this prudentially, just as long as we draw the line here and not follow up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puritysolutions.org\/products.php\" target=\"_blank\" >Communion Host Dispensers<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidfill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Rapid Fill Communion Wine Dispenser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicinjapan.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/12\/motion-sensor-holy-water-fonts\/\">Catholic in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak of the H1N1 virus has led many churches to suspend the tradition of having holy water in open fonts into which people dip their hands. The new machine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}