⚜ WHAT IS EPIPHANY WATER?
On the Vigil of the Epiphany(January 5th),
The Rite of Exorcism and Blessing of Epiphany Water (All inLatin!) is offered. It is a very beautiful and lengthy Rite.
The water undergoes a three-fold exorcism;
one for the salt and two for the water (a usual exorcism for the water and a longer rite of exorcism).
It shows the symbolic nature of water as a cleansing agent. It is therefore used to cast out Satan and all his demonic angels.
It begins with the Litany of Saints, with a couple special petitions about the blessing of the water to follow. Satan and the demons are then driven from the place with a mighty prayer.
According to some Exorcists, this rite of the blessing of the waters, with its extraordinarily powerful prayers of exorcism, renders Epiphany Water more spiritually potent than ‘ordinary’ holy water.
