Sentence examples for water blessing from inspiring English sources

Surgeons, nurses, aides crowd around as she dips their hands in water, blessing their healing work.

Allow peace and happiness to flow after an exclusive traditional water blessing by Cambodian monks in Wat Hanchey, courtesy of Emerald Waterways.

And come mornin' that water blesses towerin' magnolia trees with dewdrops the size of tongues.

Water from the jerrycan was splashed onto the flip-flop -- the same sanctified water, blessed secretly by the general, that the soldiers had often splashed on themselves.

At a Mayi-Mayi camp, Colonel Safari explained that the belief isn't about magic, but that touching water blessed originally by a man named Simo Kimbangu (whom Safari described as a prophet active in Bas-Congo in the 1920's), means that God is watching over you, a blessing reminiscent of any Christian baptism.

During the time I spent with Shah, his visitors included a man who came to get his daily ration of water blessed, another who worked as a security guard at the presidential palace, a woman whose husband had taken a second wife, a civil servant who came to get his palm read, a boxer who came to seek help for his migraines and a middle-aged woman, a judge, who came complaining of depression.

In the courtyard women were filling plastic bottles and jerry cans with water blessed by the imam.

Water blessed by a priest during the Epiphany services is thought to have healing properties.

Once that's done, they place it in the large wooden container of clear water blessed by the priests next to the table.

Holy water was defined as use of water blessed by a priest and used for treatment of HIV/AIDS by clients.

But in years past he has conducted the water-blessing ceremony in some unlikely places, including the confluence of rivers that forms the Amazon, the melting coast of Greenland and the oily Gulf of Mexico.