It’s not every day you see a priest armed with a squirt gun. As Easter celebrations approached last month, Detroit priest Rev.
Tim Pelc of St. Ambrose Parish was brainstorming how to keep the weekend as “normal” as possible. Given the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation for physical distancing and with restrictions in place, Pelc wouldn’t be able to personally bless churchgoers with holy water.
So he decided to fill up small squirt guns with it. “You can’t double-dip into the holy water container,” he told Today. “I thought, what could I do that would keep the quarantine restrictions going and give kids the experience of Easter?” After a doctor friend gave him the go-ahead that his method was safe, Pelc