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The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands (Hebrew nesiat kapayim), [1] rising to the platform (Hebrew aliyah ledukhan), [2] dukhenen (Yiddish from the Hebrew word dukhan – platform – because the blessing is given from a raised rostrum), or duchening, [3] is a Hebrew prayer ...
A Catholic priest blesses the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorials on Boylston Street. In the Catholic Church, a blessing is a rite consisting of a ceremony and prayers performed in the name and with the authority of the Church by a duly qualified minister by which persons or things are sanctified as dedicated to divine service or by which certain marks of divine favour are invoked upon them.
Many non-Orthodox communities include the matriarchs in this blessing and therefore give it the name Avot v'imahot, meaning "fathers and mothers". Gevurot גבורות Second blessing of the Amidah, describing God's might and God's mastery over the natural world. Kedushat Hashem קדושת השם
The cognate Arabic word كاهن (kāhin) means "priest". [4] The noun kohen is used in the Bible to refer to priests, whether Jewish or pagan (such as the kohanim of Baal or Dagon), [5] although Christian priests are referred to in modern Hebrew by the term komer (כומר ). [6]
The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve. This is because the Catholic Church ...
The Hebrew verb (brkh) means 'to fall on one's knees'. [4] These Berachot often took the form of a blessing upon the fulfillment of a mitzvah (divine commandment). The most important benediction was the Priestly Blessing pronounced by the kohanim (priests descended from Aaron), as found in Numbers 6:23–27.
The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants.
It means that, rather than a “ritual and liturgical” blessing, priests can now confer a more informal and spontaneous type of blessing, Morill said.