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our priest has a couple bottles of oil of st. John of shanghai and San francisco. Everytime is sick in our parish he will annoint the person with the oil. It always seems to help a lot.
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To answer the original question:l have holy water from two years ago and I drink it regulary especially if I feel weak physically or spiritually also I will eat a piece of my commemoration prosphora from the Sunday before with it. Well my point being that the strange is that this water doesn't seem to go stale. And I'm not even keeping it in the fridge.
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Would you still drink it if you knew it was over 90 years old?
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Holy Water does not corrupt. If it is kept enclosed in glass (not plastic), I see no reason not to drink it no matter how old it is.
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It's in glass. Since I'm not from a tradition that drinks holy water, I can't imagine when I'd want to drink it.
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It's definitely an Eastern custom that takes Westerners some getting used to....
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The water in question is Eastern but apparently nobody felt the need to drink it or use it for anything. Which is good because I think they wanted to make sure they had holy water for the journey.
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I am unfamiliar with this custom, how common is it?
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I am unfamiliar with this custom, how common is it? The following is the first link found on a search regarding Holy Water Customs: Link. [ byzantines.net] There are many other links that can explain this also. In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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word "Holy" everything explane
such water /when it is in glass bottle / always is fresh
we have it in our house , when we trip also take it
we dring it when we feel not good
and pour on our body
every year in Yordan we get new holly water
so old holy water is pouring for home flowers
in villages people give this water to animals to drink
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I live right nearby his shrine. One of my Latin parishoners swears by him.  Just metaphorically speaking. Stephanos I
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The coustom of drinkin Holy Water is not just an Eastern tradition but a Latin one too. I know many latins who drink holy water. Stephanos I Myself being one of them, 
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We are told by experts that one should drink 8 glasses of water each day for optimum health. The quality of that water is also important. How much more vital is it to drink blessed water? The Typikon gives us the answer by having water blessed not just on Theophany, but each first day of the month. May I suggest that parishes could have a "Holy Water Ministry" by bringing blessed water to the aged and shut-ins by parishoners.
Now, does holy water have an expiration date? Not really, but if not stored properly and in a sanitized way, drinking contaminated water even if it has been previously blessed can get one sick. I once had to clean and sanitize a large holy water font because the blessed water was so musty after six months, that it not be used. :-(
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i have known lourdes water to be stored in a plastic bottle in direct sunlight for years no growth of even algae hummmmmmmmmmm
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