Lemon cola becomes holy water in baptism
From Reuters
Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:22pm EDT
OSLO - A Norwegian church used lemon-flavored cola instead of water in a baptism ceremony after its taps were temporarily turned off because of freezing temperatures, daily Vaart Land said Tuesday.
Priest Paal Dale from the town of Stord, about 150 miles west of the capital Oslo, improvised during a recent cold-spell by dabbing the lemon fizzy water on a baby during a baptism ceremony, it said.
"It had gone flat," Dale was quoted as saying by the newspaper. "Only the lemon smell made this unusual."
Dale said the child's family were informed about the switch only after the ceremony because the priest "had a need to inform" them about the lingering lemon scent.
"They didn't say much, but I assumed they smelled the aroma as well," Dale told Vaart Land.
Reporting by Wojciech Moskwa
1 comment:
Not sure that was a baptism, then...
It reminds me of an old saying from my time in the Army:
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it twice.
Unless this particular church believes that the act of baptism itself is salvific, then they probably could have waited until the right liquid was available.
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