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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		During Virus Outbreak, Safe, Municipal Water Keeps Flowing As Holy Water Disappears
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:07
	Publish Date:		2020-03-19 05:57:00
	Description:		At Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in Rhinelander last Sunday, pianos and voices paired for the song “Down to the River to Pray.” It was the final hymn at Mass, and songs about prayers at the river were just one of the many references to faith and water at Catholic Masses across the country. The Sunday Gospel, taken from John, Chapter 4, told of Jesus and a woman at a well. “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty,” Jesus said to the woman in the story. “The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’” But while congregations sang and readers spoke of water, a familiar source of water was absent at Catholic churches in our area. No Catholics touched the Holy Water as they entered the sanctuary. There was none in the font. All churches in northern Wisconsin’s Diocese of Superior drained the Holy Water from fonts as one step to try and slow the
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