re: #34 William Lewis
Heh. Some high church Lutherans do.
The big secret? Itās tap water that the priest (well, for us Anglicans) says this prayer over the water: (prayer cut for brevity)
What to make of it? To you, itās still tap water. To my mother it was something important (she had holy water from her trip to Lourdes after her cancer diagnosis). Me? As with most church rituals, at itās best it is a symbol of all that is good and light in this world and a reminder of the good we should try to do for all people. Good enough for me to dip my fingers in the font and make a sign of the cross even though no amount of water is going to get me into heaven.
To my state, it has arsenic in it if the RO units arenāt working properly.
I donāt think this is a āhigh Lutheranā church (when we moved here, it was an independent non-denominational church, they joined one of the Lutheran synods a couple years ago).
I would hope that they draw things like baptismal water out of the RO unit, but I donāt know. The RO unit runs rather slowly, while the water pressure from the faucets is pretty high here. A baptismal font would be much quicker to fill by avoiding that pesky RO unit.