Pondering proper protocol: What is Christ’s code of correct conduct in church? by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

Pondering proper protocol: What is Christ’s code of correct conduct in church? by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

  

Does one first bless one’s self with Holy Water, and then squirt sanitizer on one’s hands?

Or does one first squirt sanitizer on one’s hands, and then bless one’s self with Holy Water?

Does one squirt sanitizer on one’s hands but forego blessing one’s self with Holy Water?

Or does one do what I do; bless myself with Holy Water and shun squirting my hands with so-called liquid hand sanitizer?

 

“Drug Facts:

Ethyl alcohol 70%.”

“Warnings:

Flammable, keep away from fire or flame.”

 

Warnings: continued

“Avoid contact with broken skin.

Do not inhale or ingest.”

Does one not ingest liquid hand sanitizer with Holy Communion when receiving by hand?

Warnings: continued

“If swallowed get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.”

List of chemicals:

 

 

As a sacramental Holy Water cleanses and protects the body and soul from evil.

On the other hand, (pun intended) liquid HAND sanitizer can do irreparable damage and harm to one’s physical and environmental health, and if touted as an idol in the house of God it can also do everlasting damage and harm to one’s spiritual health, one’s immortal soul.

Hand sanitizer bottles have profaned God’s sanctuaries long enough.

It is time to clear them out and clean up the mess they have caused.

Idols have gained prominence in His House by their flashy appearance and fleshly appeal.

By using the liquid are we pretending to protect men of flesh, or do we believe that the Man-Made Flesh who is God among us, who made all mortal flesh, is worth protecting from sacrilege? 

Are we looking to the sanitizer of our hands to cleanse us, more than to The Sanitizer of our Heart, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to cleanse us from the filth of our fall from grace; our failings, faults, and failures, and to The Sanctifier of our Soul to cleanse us from the stain of sin?

God is compassionate, but does not overlook secular compromise or spiritual corruption. 

We need to invoke the cleansing fire of the Holy Spirit and not be involved with the liquid so-called hand sanitizer.

 

 

Like the deacon going to the bench and squirting hand sanitizer on his hands and making a show of slathering it all over his hands while the priest is at the altar blessing the Sacred Gifts to be offered to God.

It is not merely an innocent distraction; it is an idolatrous distortion of the Divine Reality.

We are called to recognize the golden calves in our midst and refuse to bow to them.

Our allegiance is to God alone.

The whims and ways of men will only destroy our faith and lure us to lesser, lower things.

It is only the true Fire of God that will bring us to our knees in godly sorrow and humble repentance.

Discern the difference. 

God clearly commands, “There shall be no other gods before Me!”

Do not mistake a man-made mandate for His Commandments!  

Men have corrupted His Commandments and taken it unto themselves claiming to be above accountability.

We are all accountable to God.

I am accountable to write about this and make this known.

Stay with what is spiritual and sublime and separate yourself from what is satanic and superficially secular. 

Rules and rubrics are real railings; to stay in our lane, not to be boundless, and not to fall off a cliff where injury and death can happen.

Not only our physical and psychological injury and death, but more important our spiritual injury and death.

There are no longer hand sanitizer bottles to be found upon entering stores, offices, or business establishments like there once was; but unfortunately, the church still lingers with the addictive cult of germ-a-phobia.

Let us fear more offending God, then offending the germ-a-phobic addicts.

Holy Water protects both body and soul.

Hand sanitizer does more harm to the body with its onerous ingredients; and when used in the church to cleanse the hands does more harm to the soul by being ostentatiously idolatrous. 

Let us reflect and radiate the primacy and power of prayer, and not be seduced by the satanic power of paganism.

Keep Christ’s code of correct conduct in church and kick out the hand sanitizer bottle.

Don’t mess with Christ’s Church!

I humbly request that whenever you see a bottle of hand sanitizer, I hope you will pray for me to continue Fighting the Good Fight for the Greater Glory of God; to be fruitfully faithful to God. 

Not to fall into the ways of the world, the flesh, and the evil one. So that one day I may hear from God, “Well done good and faithful servant. You wrote what I wanted you to write.”

And speaking of falling into the ways of the world, the flesh, and the evil one; may priests never believe or fall for the lie that they are merely administrators.

All priests are PASTORS to the sheep of their God-given flock. Only pastors follow Christ’s command to “tend my flock and feed my sheep”.

After I write it down, God delivers the results, in His perfect time and in His perfect place, with His perfect person.

Thank you and God bless you.

In His Service,

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.