There’s no needing to worry that you might be harbouring a demon in iso, as one Detroit priest is still anointing his congregation with holy water in a social distancing fashion.

Has isolation brought out the bad side of you? Do you shudder at the thought of sunlight, get grumpy at the slightest issue, and feel a bit angry on the inside? Worried that you may have turned a bit demonic?

Well, don’t worry about priests being cancelled for your exorcism, as one Detroit priest is still blessing his congregation, and any heathen that wants to show up with holy water squirted through a water gun.

Father Tim Pelc of Detroit’s Saint Ambrose Parish has taken to blessing churchgoers from the comfort of their car so they can still get their daily dose of holy water without breaking social distancing regulations.

Captured by parishioner Larry Pelpin, Buzzfeed News reported that the 70-year-old priest had been with the parish for nigh on 30 years, and that he’s got a “pretty wacky mind.”

“The original idea was to do something for the kids of the parish,” Father Pelc noted. “They were about ready to have an Easter unlike any of their past, so I thought, ‘What can we still do that would observe all the protocols of social distancing?’,” and that’s where the idea birthed.

Apparently, Father Pelc did his research before implementing the holy water gun idea, approaching a doctor about it: “He said, ‘not only is this safe, this is fun.'”

“He provided me with all the personal protection stuff that I needed. The sun was out, we had a nice turnout. It was a way of continuing an ancient custom, and people seemed to enjoy it,” Father Pelc recalled about the mass holy water squirting during the annual ‘Blessing of Easter Food Baskets’.

This news, in addition to a Polish priest holding drive-thru confessional is so much more cheery and bright than a Louisianan pastor stating that “true Christians do not mind dying,” while encouraging his patrons to attend mass gatherings at church.

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