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Sneezing in Southern Chinese culture means that someone is speaking ill behind your back. "A great fortunate occurrence" or "A good one" 唔好意思 (m4 hou2 ji3 si1) "Excuse me" Chechen: Dukha vekhil for a male Dukha yekhil for a female "Live for a long time" Dela reze hiyla "Thank you"; literally means "I wish God will bless you" Croatian
It always involves God, because when you will the good of another person, you realize only God is capable of bringing that. So we naturally say, "God bless you." You can bless someone when you will their good under the invocation of God. You invoke God on their behalf to support the good that you will for them. This is the nature of blessing.
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'To be blessed' means to be favored by God, the source of all blessing. [2] Blessings, therefore, are directly associated with, and are believed to come from, God. Thus, to express a blessing is like bestowing a wish on someone that they experience the favor of God, and to acknowledge God as the source of all blessing.
It is not equivalent to the English usage of "God bless you". Like many other greetings, grüß Gott can range in meaning from deeply emotional to casual or perfunctory. The greeting's pronunciation varies with the region, with, for example, grüß dich sometimes shortened to grüß di (the variation grüß di Gott may be heard in some places).
Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...
In bocca al lupo (pronounced [im ˈbokka al ˈluːpo]; lit. "into the wolf's mouth") is an Italian idiom originally used in opera and theatre to wish a performer good luck prior to a performance. The standard response is crepi il lupo! (IPA: [ˈkrɛːpi il ˈluːpo]; "may the wolf die") or, more commonly, simply crepi! ("may it die"). [1]
A priest saying Dominus vobiscum while celebrating a Tridentine Mass. The response is Et cum spíritu tuo, meaning "And with your spirit."Some English translations, such as Divine Worship: The Missal and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, translate the response in the older form, "And with thy spirit."