blessing prayer
Words invoking favor
A blessing prayer is a prayer that asks for divine favor, protection, or goodness to be bestowed on someone or something.
It may be spoken over a meal, a newborn, a gathering, or any occasion where one seeks to invoke sacred benefit: The rabbi offered a blessing prayer over the bread.
The phrase is somewhat redundant, since blessings are themselves a form of prayer.
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- say gracePreprandial prayer ritual
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- amenSolemn spoken agreement
give thanks · gratitude · daily bread · sacred · divine · holy · in God's name · thankful · worship · house of worship · devotion · intercession · supplication · folded hands · hands · bowed head · bowed · sign of the cross
- blessingsspiritual gifts, divine favor, divine love, baptismal font, mercy
- baptismchristening, infant baptism, adult baptism, water baptism, immersion
blessing prayercurse
Invoked harm through words
malediction · hex · imprecation · execration · damnation
blessing prayerexcommunication
Formal barring from sacraments
condemnation · anathema · denunciation · exorcism · interdict
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