Blessing of the Baptismal Font (Traditional Latin Text and Rite)

During the Easter Vigil in 2017, Bp. Dolan blesses the Holy Water and the Baptismal Font. St. Gertrude the Great Church, West Chester, OH. www.sgg.org Almighty and eternal God, look mercifully on the devotion of the people desiring a new birth, who, like the hart, pant after the fountain of thy waters : so mercifully grant that the thirst of their faith may, by the sacrament of baptism, sanctify their souls and bodies......