新冠逼出了多少創意：牧師站2米外用水槍給信徒噴聖水

A Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area has taken aim at his parishioners in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, using a squirt gun to shoot holy water.
底特律的一位羅馬天主教牧師爲了在新冠疫情期間保持社交距離，用水槍朝教徒噴聖水。
Photos posted on social media by the St Ambrose Church show the Reverend Timothy Pelc shooting water into a car window as it stopped by the steps of the church. He wore a mask, face shield and rubber gloves as further precautions against spreading the coronavirus.
聖安布羅斯教堂在社交媒體上發佈的照片顯示，一輛車停在教堂的臺階邊，蒂莫西·佩爾克牧師朝車窗裏噴水。他帶着口罩，面罩和橡膠手套來加強防護，以防傳播病毒。

The photos of the priest at the church in Grosse Pointe Park were taken at Easter but have recently gone viral and have inspired memes online. One shows the 70-year-old priest amid the fires of hell directing the squirt gun at devil-like figures.
這個教堂位於Grosse Pointe Park，牧師的照片是在復活節拍的，最近走紅了，網上還出現了模因，其中有一個展示的是這位70歲的牧師站在地獄之火中，把水槍對準魔鬼一樣的人。
Pelc told BuzzFeed News that he was a little concerned about how the Vatican might react when the photos of him squirting holy water began circulating widely on the internet. But, he said, “I haven’t heard anything yet.”
佩爾克對《BuzzFeed News》說，他擔心自己噴聖水的照片一旦在網上傳播開來，梵蒂岡會有什麼反應。但他說：“我還沒有聽到什麼消息。”
The idea was to find a way to continue a tradition of blessing Easter baskets despite the pandemic. One photo shows Pelc standing behind a car with its hatchback door up, shooting water at a basket of flowers. He said he has a “pretty wacky mind and pretty accepting congregation”.
這樣做是爲了在疫情期間延續復活節籃子祈福的傳統。在一張照片中，佩爾克站在一輛掀背車後，車門擡起，他對着一籃鮮花噴水。他說他的教衆“思想古怪，承受力強”。
The church and surrounding communities have taken the pandemic seriously, Pelc said. Parishioners have tied blue ribbons on trees at the church for each person who has died of Covid-19 in Michigan. That number is now approaching 5,000.
佩爾克說教堂和周圍的社區對待疫情都很謹慎。教區居民爲了所有在疫情中死去的密歇根人在教堂的樹上繫上藍絲帶。死亡人數現在接近5,000。