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When Catholics know someone is ill, we can do many things. We can offer a Mass in their name. We can add their name to a parish prayer list. Or we can do what my dear friend Meredith did: We can mail the person a bottle of holy water.<\/a><\/p>\n

My octogenarian dad has been struggling recently with a puzzling array of health problems. Meredith <\/a>mailed me a bottle of holy water for him. The gesture moved me; she never even has met my father.
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But when she and her family made their annual journey from Indiana to Ave Maria Grotto <\/a>in Cullman, Alabama, she bought him a bottle of holy water. (pictured above) When he unwrapped it on Holy Thursday and he was moved, very moved to receive such a gesture from a stranger. <\/p>\n

The bottle now sits now on his dresser and I told him to consider this water like a daily cologne: bless yourself every morning, saying the sign of the cross<\/a> as you do.<\/p>\n

How rich our traditions, and how comforting and powerful.<\/p>\n

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