A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

In proclaiming the truths upheld by the Catholic Church, adherence to Scripture and Tradition is unquestioned. How does the church introduce necessary new elements at times without abandoning the old?

“The deacon is a minister of evangelization, a permanent and ordained sign and witness of Christ’s ministry of service,” ...

Catch the find depicted on the wall, our earliest known example of ancient hebrew biblical text, the priestly blessing ... camera and bible in hand. About the Author Ruth Lieberman is an Israeli ...

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 ... of God is at hand for you.'" ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...

on the other hand, derives from the awareness of death and the injunction to live fully: abundant literature is dedicated to “the value of time” and recounts the “blessing in time” of ...