Sentence examples for offering blessings from inspiring English sources

Way before Vermont or any state, I was offering blessings for folks in committed relationships," he said.

The Church of England has ruled out offering blessings to same-sex couples, insisting that such public gestures belong only to heterosexual marriage.

AMONG the most striking and inspiring images to emerge from the battle-scarred streets of Kiev have been photographs of priests, alone or in groups, standing between protestors and police, offering blessings, tending the wounded and praying over the dead.

While the brothers' struggle with the Chinese government has garnered wide attention, the comments at the service were focused on the moment: paying tribute to the dead and offering blessings.

Simultaneously dehumanized as both good and bad luck omens by conventional Indian lore – hijras are often shoved to the edges of Indian society with few resources for earning money outside of begging ("mangti"), offering blessings on auspicious occasions ("bhadai"), and prostitution ("pun").

In addition to offering blessings, she works as a prostitute to supplement her meager income.

He received a rap over the knuckles from Cardinal Basil Hume for offering informal blessings to Japanese tourists.

Traditional Malay/indigenous medical practices include healing techniques using natural resources, wafak (written symbols), and Quranic verses, supplication and offering of blessings to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) [ 23].

He was inspired by the fact that the banana is used widely in Southeast Asia as an offering to bring blessings, but is also feared as it is associated with ghosts and spirits.

At every level, from elaborate temple rituals to simple home practice, worship consists of offerings made and blessings received; reverence is rendered and grace pours down.

Both of them had religious duties to perform, liturgies to attend to, offerings to make, blessings to pronounce.