blessings

[anti_nietzsche]

What is a blessing, really?

When my pastor blesses me, what should I expect from it?

Comments

[log_junkie]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says this:

2626 Blessing expresses the basic movement of Christian prayer: it is an encounter between God and man. In blessing, God's gift and man's acceptance of it are united in dialogue with each other. The prayer of blessing is man's response to God's gifts: because God blesses, the human heart can in return bless the One who is the source of every blessing.

2627 Two fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him for having blessed us; it implores the grace of the Holy Spirit that descends through Christ from the Father - he blesses us.

[rogueblack]

It amazes me how a source that aptly explains the importance and truth of a Blessing can be completely ignored by people who insist on continuing to comment "I dunno, I figured it was just a way to say g'day."

Your answer is the answer to the post.

[log_junkie]

Not everyone here is Catholic, and I'm willing to bet some don't even know the CCC exists. That's why we share it :o)

[rogueblack]

My point is that you share it, others ignore it.

But you don't need to be Catholic to accept the correct answer to a question, even if it's coming from a Catholic source.

[elizabby]

Coming in late here, but both these quotes seem to talk about when we (people) bless God, not about when people bless other people?