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A benediction (Latin: bene, 'well' + dicere, 'to speak') is a short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually at the end of worship service. It can also refer to a specific Christian religious service including the exposition of the eucharistic host in the monstrance and the blessing of the people with it.
Benediction Benediction performing in 2019 Background information Origin Birmingham, England Genres Death metal Years active 1989–present Labels Nuclear Blast Members Darren Brookes Peter Rewinsky Dave Ingram Gio Durst Nik Sampson Past members Frank Healy Ian Treacy Paul Adams Mark "Barney" Greenway Dave Hunt Neil Hutton Ashley Guest Nick Barker Dan Bate Benediction are a British death metal ...
Cardinal Godfried Danneels vested in a humeral veil, holding a monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament Benediction at a Carmelite friary in Ghent, Belgium. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, also called Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament or the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction, is a devotional ceremony, celebrated especially in the Roman Catholic Church, but also in ...
A benediction is a religious invocation. Benediction may also refer to: "Benediction" , an episode of Angel; Benediction (band), a British death metal band; Benediction, a play by Eric Schmiedl "Benediction" (short story), a 1920 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Benediction, a 2021 biographical drama film
A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Benediction is a 2021 biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, and Ben Daniels. Benediction was Davies's final film before his death in October 2023. [6]
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543); detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence. The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded.
The story first appeared in The Smart Set, edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, in the February 1920 issue. [1] When Mencken reviewed Fitzgerald's story collection Flappers and Philosophers, he regarded "Benediction" as the best story in the anthology and wrote that its publication "brought down the maledictions of the Jesuits and came near getting the magazine barred from the ...