Sentence examples for usual blessing from inspiring English sources

The usual blessing—"In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost, Amen"—followed, then the Lord's Prayer, the whole concluding with the Roman numerals.

Until age 5, when she was sent away for a few weeks at Grandma's, not for the usual blessed-event reason but the opposite: she returned to find that she hadn't gained a sibling but lost one.

Pope John Paul II continued to recover from fever and breathing difficulties and may even deliver his usual Sunday blessing, though from the Rome hospital he was rushed to on Tuesday, the Vatican reported.

Here domination gets, as usual, a religious blessing: Mother Eve, whose mission is powered by a drolly laconic voice in her head, has a theological blueprint for the new world order.

He cited, for one thing, the archaic, largely Byzantine convention of depicting Christ head on, delivering the usual raised-fingers blessing, at a time when Leonardo was doing wonders with figures turning in pictorial deep space — as with "The Virgin of the Rocks" and "Virgin and Child with St. Anne," both at the Louvre.

People in places where rain is usually praised as a blessing are now overwhelmed by its excess.In southern Africa, too, the rains have been heavier than usual.

Lloyd, bless him, was late as usual, arriving 10 minutes after they did.

"I get some horrible, horrible things on social media: bless and block is my usual strategy," she says.

"Every day is a blessing," he said, ratcheting down his usual peppy tone for a moment.

Sakharov, bless him for eternity, betrayed his usual pacific carriage and confronted Yakovlev, slapping him in the face.

#blessed pic.twitter.com/URbZEQmmQa Talking to Metro, Brian said: "It was the usual dark humor I've come to expect, which usually centers around me dying.