Sentence examples for receiving a blessing from inspiring English sources

The experience is considered to be reciprocal and results in the human viewer's receiving a blessing.

At that first show, Jaron Lanier, the virtual reality pioneer, was seen receiving a blessing.

After receiving a blessing from the U.S. Education Department, the company, which has no experience teaching, is set to oversee campuses serving nearly 40,000 students.

Thus "indulgences": by reciting a certain prayer or visiting a shrine or receiving a blessing or performing some other religious act, a Catholic could gain a certain amount of relief from penances.

Both roles come easily to Mikhail Saakashvili, the 36-year-old Georgian president who wants to transform his country from a truncated state, living on past glory, into a regional power with links to the West.Not that he ignores past glory: he began his presidency six months ago by receiving a blessing at an 800-year-old monastery, founded by Georgia's greatest king.

"I have only had brief contact with Knight Justiciar Breivik, receiving a blessing for my mission after contacting his brother knights," an apparent reference to the Knights Templar, a rumored secret temple knight's order of which Breivik claimed he was a commander.

Ram Dass both bestows and receives a blessing.

Eventually, against all the odds, they each receive a blessing.

I received a blessing from the spiritual father [at my church] and went [to eastern Ukraine].

And he shook his head at the thought, as if he had just received a blessing.

They will sing to him, show him their pictures and receive a blessing.