Priest Unknowingly Blesses Congregation With Bleach
Churchgoers got a lot more than they bargained for when the priest unknowingly splashed bleach onto the parishioners.
St. Nicholas church in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn was a couple of hours into their 2010 Good Friday evening service when Reverend Father John E. Artemas took a small brass figurine into his hands. This figurine, filled with holy rose water, typically takes the shape of an eagle, a symbol of orthodoxy, with a spout at its' mouth. The priest walks around the church and waves the figurine spraying the congregation with this holy rose water. It fills the church with a light, fragrant smell.
"It was around 10pm," one of the parishioners was telling me the story, "and I noticed there were stains on my dress. My first thought was how stupid I could have been to buy it without noticing it." But things took a turn for the worse when a woman complained about her eye stinging. "There was a rush to the alter by a group of men to tell the priest," she added.
But it was too late, the priest had already walked around the church spraying bleach onto the congregation. Suits, dresses, blouses, even the church's carpeting, which had just been freshly installed - white spots appeared as the bleach dried, sparing no one.
The priest got on the microphone and announced the blunder stating, "apparently God wanted us to be blessed with something other than holy water," and offered to pay for damages done to a packed church. No one has come forth with claims and most likely none will. Apparently, earlier in the day, a church custodian wanted to clean the figurine and filled it with bleach, only to forget about it later.
Many wonder if this was an omen, the church has been plagued with scandal and infighting.
Posted by George Zaharoff at 8 April 2010, 1:36 PM 
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Categories: My Thoughts
Tags: orthodox nicks oak.lawn good st blessing church bleach friday greek
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