We gave them our hand shake and pronounced benediction of God on them, and Chief Smohalla agreed to accept that as the Pipe of Peace.

In the Ashkenazi Jews ' ritual, at the close of the last benediction, the words " who blesseth his people Israel with peace " are shortened into " the Maker of Peace.

In abbeys exempt from the ( arch ) bishop's diocesan jurisdiction, the confirmation and benediction had to be conferred by the pope in person, the house being taxed with the expenses of the new abbot's journey to Rome.

Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).

" O my Lord, best of the givers of benediction, if You at all want to bestow a desirable benediction upon me, then I pray from Your Lordship that within the core of my heart there be no material desires.

First Readers determine the beginning " scriptural selection ", hymns to be sung on Sundays, and the benediction.

The ascending Christ may be carrying a resurrection banner or make a sign of benediction with his right hand.

It is said that he pronounced over it the benediction: " Blessed be God who hath restored again that which was forbidden.

The validity of continuation has been protected by the survival of the Benedictio Novi Militis ( benediction of new knights ) that can still be used in some places and has never stopped since the middle-ages.

In a high school setting, a salutatorian may also be asked to speak about the current graduating class or to deliver an invocation or benediction.

Saint Benedict first gave the Office the basic structure by which it has come to be celebrated in the West: three psalms ( 4, 90, and 133 ) as noted above said without antiphons, the hymn, the lesson, the versicle Kyrie eleison, the benediction, and the dismissal ( RB, Chaps.

Prayers may be performed as petition ( or intercession ), thanksgiving, blessing ( or benediction ), praise or confession.

The prayers recorded in early Christian literature can be categorized into six type: petition ( including intercession ), thanksgiving, blessing ( or benediction ), praise, confession and finally a small number of lamentations.

The source of the powers of congress is to be sought solely in the acquiescence of the people, without which every congressional resolution, with or without the benediction of popular conventions or state legislatures, would have been a mere brutum fulmen ; and, as the congress unquestionably exercised national powers, operating over the whole country, the conclusion is inevitable that the will of the whole people is the source of national government in the United States, even from its first imperfect appearance in the second continental congress ...

To you, Ludovico and Francesco, brothers in blood and spirit, and to all you dear ones of my home, who never asked anything of me, and never had from me any earthly favour, and who always gave me an example of human and Christian virtues, you who understood me with so much discretion and cordiality and who above all helped me to seek in the present life the life of the future -- my peace and my benediction be with you.

8 ) some insertions which were made in the first and second benedictions and in the last two, and which are now found in all prayer-books ; in the first ( after " for the sake of His Name in love "): " Remember us for life, King who delights in life ; and inscribe us in the book of life, for Your sake, living God "; in the second ( after " make salvation to grow "): " Who is like You, merciful Father, remembering His creatures in mercy for life "; in the last but one, near the end: " And inscribe for life all the sons of Your covenant "; in the last benediction immediately before the close: " May we be remembered and inscribed before You in the book of life, of blessing, of peace, and of good sustenance.

The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".

During this performance, Norman sang for the first time, " May Your Feet Stay On The Path ", as a beatific benediction to the Solid Rock artists he had released.

In the " Liber Ordinum ", for instance, the formula is of the nature of a benediction, and the Gelasian Sacramentary has the prayer " Deus mundi conditor ", not found elsewhere, but containing the remarkable " praise of the bee "-- possibly a Vergilian reminiscence — which is found with more or less modification in all the texts of the " Praeconium " down to the present.

" Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and benediction.

Chapter 4 then concludes with a summary of the topics discussed and with the benediction, followed by 5 ; 6: 1 – 10 teaching about the right use of their Christian freedom.

He would first conclude with his paraenesis and wish them peace by including a prayer request, greet them with his name and his friends with a holy kiss, and offer final grace and benediction:

Those who believe that in the Eucharist the bread and wine become instead the body and blood of Christ see this as plainly indicated in the New Testament, both in the Eucharistic discourse given by Christ in John 6, and in 1st Corinthians 11, where St. Paul several times equates the body and blood of Jesus with the " bread " and " cup of benediction " used in the Eucharist.

The performance concludes with the chanting of a few religious verses as a form of benediction.

The form is conveyed in a hand sign by the gesture of blessing or benediction, with the palms facing downward and the thumbs of his outspread hands touching.

Through the series he petitions her for help and talks with her in Welsh, as a down to earth steward of the common people, more accessible than a remote and mysterious God, a local channel of healing and benediction.

In many modern packs, the Hierophant is represented with his right hand raised in what is known esoterically as the blessing or benediction, with two fingers pointing skyward and two pointing down, thus forming a bridge between Heaven and Earth reminiscent of that formed by the body of The Hanged Man.

* One type of Madonna shows Mary alone ( without the child Jesus ), and standing, generally glorified and with a gesture of prayer, benediction or prophesy.

He strictly prohibited reproaching them with infidelity, and even gave those among them who had been slandered an opportunity to publicly pronounce the benediction in the synagogues.

Ralph also had the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury search for documents relating to the privileges of Canterbury and had those documents copied into a manuscript which still survives, BM MS Cotton Cleopatra E. His seal is one of the first to take the usual form for bishop's seals, with Ralph standing, in full vestments including a mitre, and performing a benediction with his right hand while holding his crosier in his left.

Once a vital ritual in many of the world's monarchies, coronations have changed over time due to a variety of socio-political and religious factors to the point that most modern monarchies have dispensed with them altogether, preferring simpler enthronement, investiture, or benediction ceremonies.

Hence, many monarchies — especially in Europe — have dispensed with coronations altogether, or transformed them into simpler inauguration or benediction rites that better reflect the secular nature of those states.

The encierro begins with runners singing a benediction.

If a bishop or abbot is holding his crozier while making the benediction, he will raise his right hand and trace the Sign of the Cross with both his crozier and right hand, crossing the one in front of the other.

The widespread practice is that on the first Sabbath of his thirteenth year, a boy is called up to read from the weekly portion of the Law ( five books of Moses ), either as one of the first seven men or as the last, in which case he will read the closing verses and the Haftarah ( selections from the books of the Prophets ); and if he is unable to read, to recite at least the benediction before and after the reading.

The altar is a pointed conic structure on which the Hogon offers boiled millet while mentioning in his benediction eight grains plus one.

Finally, after the reign of Menander I, several Indo-Greek rulers, such as Amyntas, King Nicias, Peukolaos, Hermaeus, Hippostratos and Menander II, depicted themselves or their Greek deities forming with the right hand a benediction gesture identical to the Buddhist vitarka mudra ( thumb and index joined together, with other fingers extended ), which in Buddhism signifies the transmission of Buddha's teaching.

In 1 Cor 10: 16, St. Paul states: " The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

To the simple Benedictine psalmody — modified, there is a fourth psalm, " In te Domine speravi " ( Psalm 30 )— and perhaps at a fairly late date it added the solemn introduction of a benediction with a reading ( based perhaps on the spiritual reading which, in the Rule of St. Benedict, precedes Compline ; RB, Chap.

The raja of Tanjore erected a monument, executed by John Flaxman, in the mission church, in which he is represented as grasping the hand of the dying missionary and receiving his benediction.

The benediction for the Feast of St. Swithun mentions miracles performed by Swithun, which lead H. A. Wilson to conclude that the benediction could not have been composed before the translation of Swithun's relics on 15 July 971.

There is no commission narrative in the surviving texts: Philip's authority rests on the prayers and benediction of Peter and John and is explicitly bolstered by a divine epiphany, in which the voice of Jesus urges " Hurry Philip!