Sentence examples for offered blessings from inspiring English sources

Not wanting to miss out, the Catholic church also offered blessings.

On Friday, the Karmapa offered blessings to devotees who lined up to meet him in his fourth-floor reception room.

They offered blessings upon your head and stroked your apple cheeks.

He offered blessings to his children which seemed quite Old Testament to me, and he led us in The Lord's Prayer with some of his final breaths.

Some of us have offered blessings to same sex couples for some time now, in acts that move us towards recognizing these relationships as sacramental in nature, at least on the very local level.

Upon arriving in the city from New Orleans, where he spoke last week, he was taken to the Drepung Gomang Institute, Louisville's Tibetan Buddhist Center in suburban St. Matthews, where he spoke to 100 members and offered blessings.

In this compromise, the Church would not allow the performance of public rites joining homosexual couples, as in the blessing of a union; local priests would, however, be allowed to offer blessings to gay couples not based on the official church rites.

The camps offer blessings and challenges for both parents and children.

Others step out ahead of their congregations and might perform the ceremony far from the synagogue and not offer blessings for the couple at a Sabbath service.

Some veterans of the revival business said a key difference for "Porgy and Bess" and "On a Clear Day" is that their creators are not around to offer blessings or cry foul.

To buttress the point, and invite the rather convenient branding comparison, Mesi's backers invited Marciano's brothers, Lou and Peter, and his nephew Lou Jr. to offer blessings at the luncheon.