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I’m 100% with LadyDoc on this one.

First, that first set of photos: “Take a look at the water structure.” I don’t know what that comment is getting at. Water has a very simple structure. Two H atoms around an O atom separated by 109 degrees of separation. Those photos are clearly of things on the macro level—a droplet? a microscope slide? A few crystals of water beginning to freeze? That second set of photos is clearly of snowflakes, not liquid water. Is the author saying that water freezes differently if it is blessed? Who knows.

And I can’t understand why anyone would say that the blessing transformed the nature of water into something incorrupt that does not spoil. The nature of water is already incorrupt. There is nothing in it to spoil. It’s just H2O. What spoils water is the stuff in it—algae, bacteria, etc. Remove these things and you have restored water to its original state.

I’m no theologian, but if the sacramental of Holy Water is in any way analogous to the sacrament of the Eucharist, I’d be willing to bet there is no physical change that happens in it whatsoever—beyond any extraordinary, miraculous ones that God may deign to perform in particular cases. The blessing imparts a spiritual change to the water, not a natural one.

With all due respect to the author of this article, this seems all like pious superstition.