Sentence examples for the first blessing from inspiring English sources

The first blessing is that Cattrall avoids romantic cliche.

In 1984 that Episcopal cathedral in New York held the first Blessing of the Animals to mark the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, and in some years, the beasts processing into the massive Gothic structure often included an elephant.

The Sephardic custom is that no blessing is said for the head-tefillin, the first blessing sufficing for both.

Bishop Juergen W. Bless did the first blessing at St . Thaddeus Jude Old Catholic Churchin Old World Village and served there for more than 30 years.

"We grew up with pigs and chickens and horses and goats". Saturday marked the first blessing of the animals for Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, who took over the largest Catholic archdiocese in the nation from Cardinal Roger Mahony in February.

Family legend has it that six generations ago, one of Thury's ancestors received the first blessing ever conferred by the rabbi, when he was just out of rabbinical school and looking for a job.

The first blessed event took place in 2006, when my colleagues Glenn Geher and Jennifer Waldo initiated a version of EvoS at SUNY New Paltz.

Gather the family around, light the Shamash, and say the blessings, minus the third blessing.

Jami pronounced the second blessing and then recited her speech, reading headline-size words with a scanning device that allows her to focus one line at a time.

The third blessing for which we ought to be grateful is the remarkably low cost of borrowing and its big corollary, the relatively small numbers of mortgage-holders having their homes repossessed.

Similarly, the English Higher Life movement taught that the second blessing was an "enduement of power".