Abbot Columba addresses the congregation. Photo: Miriam Power. RECENTLY-elected abbot of Glenstal Abbey Columba McCann OSB received his abbatial blessing at a ceremony presided over by Kieran O’Reilly ...

“Abbot Brendan takes office immediately. The formal Abbatial Blessing will take place on a date yet to be decided, after the current renovation works in the abbey church have been completed ...

The joint cluster choir has performed many times together since then, at services in Knock, at ordinations, abbatial blessings, Christmas services, and in the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. Fr ...

As he lies on his deathbed, Jacob bestows blessings on his male progeny (Dina is notably absent). There are several interesting points to note: Jacob only blesses two grandchildren, the sons of ...

Photo: Alessia Giuliani/IPA via ZUMA Press/Seth Wenig/pool/Shutterstock In the normal course of things, it is the pope who bestows the blessing when he talks with a politician. But on Saturday it ...

COLONIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Blessings, located at 1116 Watervliet Shaker Road in Colonie, has new owners and a new name. Although still called Blessings, the new owners have dropped “tavern ...

Jesse Romero says a Catholic lawyer and movie producer in California told him he believes the Epiphany Blessing saved his home from burning to the ground. (photo: Anastasia Petrova / Shutterstock ...

The "Fickle Blessings of the Wind" is a Shrine effect that you can receive during the Trial of the Sekhemas. It's quite helpful in moving through the trials unscathed, which you'll need to do if ...

Rock Island Police Department Facebook UPDATE: On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Rock Island Police Department announced that Blessing Aoci was found safe and in "apparent good health." Multiple suspects ...

As my time in ministry grows longer from those days of cleaner-collared naïvety, however, so, too, does the list of things that I have been asked to invoke the blessing of God, Father, Son, and Holy ...

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

1. Any priest may confer the blessings of the Church, except those reserved to the Pope, to bishops, or to others. * A reserved blessing which is conferred by a priest who does not have the ...