The phrase "act of blessing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is referring to the act of bestowing a blessing, often in religious or ceremonial settings.
Example: "The priest performed the act of blessing the newlyweds during the ceremony."
Alternatives: "blessing ceremony" or "blessing ritual".
Certain gestures as well as words may be bound up with the act of blessing, as in putting one's hands on the head of the person being blessed.
At the opening, an American Indian, whose great-great-grandfather once owned the site, lit a pipe and blew smoke in an act of blessing across the roof.
A peculiarity of certain external and non-self-directable acts is that the relevant utterance must of necessity be not only directed toward a certain subject but also registered or grasped by this subject in a further act: a command must be received and understood by those to whom it is addressed (something which does not apply, for example, to an act of blessing or cursing).
His right hand is raised in the act of blessing, his left hand lowered.
The act of blessing is an opening to wholeness, healing and forgiveness that you can do anytime, anywhere.
That name and that act of blessing Jacob remind me that God is not best rendered a noun -- a defined person, place or thing.
But if you regard time on earth as a vessel to be filled up with life, and that act of blessed infilling as prudent, sane, and natural (Robin would add "moist, funky and incontinent").
Death to all men who stop me!" sings Maliella (Natalya Romaniw), the illegitimate urchin raised by devout Carmela (Diana Montague) as an act of gratitude for the Blessed Virgin's intercession when her infant son was ill.
"This is the result of my simple act of kindness, because God blesses us every single day.
This act of ghoulish reincarnation has the blessing of Dawson's wife and daughter, who was eight months old when she lost her dad.
He posted "God bless this act of terrorism" on his Facebook page on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris on 7 January last year.
