Holy water, in the Eastern Christian churches and the Roman Catholic Church, special water that has been blessed and is used to bless churches, homes, and articles of devotion.
"He does need to take very seriously the desire of gay and lesbian Christians to have relationships blessed in church and honoured and recognised by the Church and that includes both civil partnerships and, ultimately, equal marriage.
They blessed your church and blessed your world With gifts they used for you.
_ They blessed your church and blessed your world With gifts they used for you.
"I think God has blessed the church of New York" with someone who shares those qualities.
If civil partnerships are such a good thing, exhibiting often "stunning relationships," as the archbishop of Canterbury said, shouldn't they then be blessed in church?
But it has also done the twist in Times Square to protest the city's restrictive cabaret laws, blessed a church's Thanksgiving feast in Sunnyside, Queens, and rallied anti-World Trade Organization troops in Washington.
Two more traditional festivals that Oaxacans celebrate with passion are Epiphany, Jan . 6 "the 12th day of Christmas" and the gift-giving day that ends the holiday season in Mexico; and Candlemas, Feb. 2, in which families take images of the Christ child, dressed in finery, from their home altars to be blessed in church.
Next! Clearly we need two different words — one for the sacred unions that can be blessed in churches, mosques, synagogues or wherever else people apply noncivil criteria to marriage, and another for the civil contract.
The congregation nodded to one another: "Brother Aaron" had decided to bless their church with his angelic voice.
