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In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "(God) bless you", or less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed origins of the phrase "bless-you" for use in the context of ...
God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you [1]) is a common English phrase generally used to wish a person blessings in various situations, [1] [2] especially to "will the good of another person", as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction.
The Divine Praises were originally written in Italian by Luigi Felici, a Jesuit priest, in 1797 for the purpose of making reparation after saying or hearing sacrilege or blasphemy. [ 1 ] The original text, translated into English and as presented in a 19th century Raccolta , was:
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."
The traditional Jewish response to a sneeze is the Aramaic phrase assuta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָסוּתָא; Ashkenazi pronunciation: assusa), [1] to which the sneezer replies with barukh tiheyeh (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ תִּהְיֶה, 'may you be blessed'). [2]
The Lord be with you. All reply: And with your spirit. The celebrant says: Blessed be the name of the Lord. All reply: Now and for ever. The celebrant says: Our help is in the name of the Lord. All reply: Who made heaven and earth. Then the celebrant receives the pastoral staff, if he uses it, and says: May almighty God bless you,
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President Rodrigo Duterte extends his hand to skater Margielyn Didal who showed a gesture of respect to the President on September 12, 2018. Mano is an "honouring-gesture" used in Filipino culture performed as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder. Similar to hand-kissing, the person giving the greeting bows towards the hand of the elder and presses ...