Sentence examples for receiving blessings from inspiring English sources

She headed to the venue of her public rally after offering prayers and receiving blessings and prasad, or blessed food, from the monks and planting a tree close to the one planted by her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, during his visit to Ramakrishna Mission in 1980s.

"Dialogue is fine, but to condone Catholic priests receiving blessings from Candomble priests just is not acceptable," Father Mathon said in a sermon.

For the Buddhist ceremony two hours later, at the Carnegie Institution for Science, also in Washington, the couple knelt before the altar, receiving blessings, gifts and marital advice from the groom's parents, who noted that the couple had "the same values and profession, the ingredients for a good, happy family".

In contrast, converting to a religion or taking part in religious-related activities in hopes of receiving blessings from a superstitious power is an indication of being incapable, unbelievable, or superstitious.

I thought it was only adversity that could change you, but receiving blessings can too.

Receiving blessings would be the happiest thing in this special festival.

But along the way, they receive blessings.

There, she prostrated herself before a statue of the swami's guru, said prayers and received blessings from the monks.

Inside its gilded walls, we received blessings from monks and had holy water splashed into our palms.

The couple celebrated their union last evening at the "21" Club, where they received blessings from Rabbi Donna Berman, Rabbi Sandy Bogin, Rabbi Kenneth Brickman and Rabbi Devorah Jacobson.

Utt and her fellow "remotes", as Caplan calls them, include entrepreneurs, software developers and designers, freelancers, and corporate employees who received blessings from the likes of Microsoft, HP, Polycom and Google to take their jobs on the road.