No blessings are recited before and after the reading, although supplications are recited. At night, it is customary to read by candlelight. At the beginning of each chapter, the baal keriah raises ...

1. Any priest may confer the blessings of the Church, except those reserved to the Pope, to bishops, or to others. * A reserved blessing which is conferred by a priest who does not have the ...

The occasion provides a special opportunity for a gathering of the members of the community to mark the joyful event and to thank God, from whom all blessings come, for the gift of a new home.

When you remove friction, change happens on its own. My blessing to every reader is that we commit to real change, so next year we can come to Yom Kippur as a new person. This verse signals a ...

Celtic blessings are the perfect way to describe the dark element of this Irish festival and we hope that this poem and blessing will bring you a very spooky but happy Halloween. The ancient ...

True friendships are a wonderful thing to have during the best times and especially the worst times. There is an old saying which says if you are friends with a person for more than seven years ...

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