Sentence examples for blessed act from inspiring English sources

Honoring and caring for the dead, he points out, is considered a mitzvah, or a blessed act, in Judaism because it does not involve any tangible compensation.

Accumulating a treasure is often seen as a blessed act that bolsters the temple god's glory.

Giving an iftar meal to a friend or another fasting Muslim is seen as a blessed act, so some chefs make it a point to invite others over for the meal, or to give food at a community center or mosque.

"I feel very blessed to act as a sort of bridge between generations," he said when I visited him yesterday.

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.

Writing on his Facebook page on the day of the attack at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January last year, he said: "God bless this act of terrorism".

But it was seen chiefly as a civil act blessed by the church, and it did not convey grace to the participants.

Often his subjects ask Father Desbois to stay for a meal and to pray, as if to somehow bless their acts of remembrance.

In a meeting with President Ezer Weizman, the pope blessed Israel -- an act seen by many Israelis as final church recognition of their state, with which the Vatican established relations only in 1994.

Lawyers for the Obama administration, arguing for their ability to kill an American citizen without trial in Yemen, contended that the protection of US citizenship was effectively removed by a key congressional act that blessed a global war against al-Qaida.

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").