A Louisiana church took to the heavens to bring a Christmas service to the masses – spraying vast amounts of holy water over its rural parish from a low-flying crop duster airplane. “It’s an isolated parish and this was a way of bringing people together at the holidays,” Barzaere told the Guardian. Barzare said blessing crops with holy water is a generations-old ritual for the church. It was just a small thing we were doing in the parish, then the diocese posted the photographs on Facebook. We can bless a larger area with 300 gallons of water than we can with 100,” he added.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2019 15:28 UTC