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Photos from the Great Blessing of Water at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Québec, QC.

Photos of Fr Stelian Liabotis blessing the Ottawa River in a chilly -24C. Despite the temperature in Ottawa falling below that of every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning (not even counting the windchill of -38C), the faithful braved the cold and even one had a dip in the river.

Fr Ryan Bishop and the parishioners of All Saints Orthodox Church, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, blessed the waters of the Meadow River, which runs straight into the lake where the entire city gets its drinking water. The children were thrilled that they were blessing the water for the whole town and think it's awesome that now everyone is drinking holy water.

It is probably the very first time any waters have been blessed in Meadow Lake. Glory to God!

It had been many many years since the faithful of St Mark at Yorkton had blessed water on the lake. Last year plans where put into place to do this, but the -40 weather discouraged many.

This year, the forecast was for -4 weather, and it was decided to go ahead, for Sunday afternoon. Sunday morning the weather looked good. By the time that afternoon had rolled around, it was only -6 but a good Saskatchewan blizzard had rolled in. The weather was now with winds of 50 km with 4 cm of snow falling.