Upon his death-bed he sent his benediction in a very moving manner to Constantia, who at that time was herself so far gone in the same fatal distemper that she lay delirious.
Thus also, instead of a secret cure, she was given the open benediction of her Lord, and such confirmation in her privilege as many more would enjoy if only with their mouth confession were made unto salvation.
So shall the great benedictionbe fulfilled: "The peace of God which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts" (Phil.
And who shall dare to limit the influence exerted by that benediction on their future lives?
Besides these really great and celebrated functions are many others of minor purport, such as the "Benediction of the Boats" and the "Benediction of the Fields.
The ceremony will close with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and the solemn singing of the Te Deum.
It was a Saturday afternoon, andBenediction was about to begin.
Come to embrace us all--breathing benediction on learning and on science!
In certain instances the formality of episcopal benediction was dispensed with, a simple promise sufficing.
In the pontifical of Bishop Lacy of Exeter may be found the office of the Benediction of a Widow.
Policemen and soldiers dying in their attempt to carry out the draft law, would die the enemies of God, while the people who resisted them would die in peace with God and under the benediction of his Church.
After mass at Castletown, Bear Haven, Father Brennan ordered his flock to resist conscription, take the sacrament, and to be ready to resist to the death; such death insuring the fullbenediction of God and his Church.
Papal approbation and benediction to the work in a very remarkable address which produced a deep and widespread impression throughout Catholic France.
But Ferdinand, conscious of the importance of a papal coronation, sent a very obsequious embassy to Rome, announcing his appointment as emperor, and imploring the benediction of the holy father and the reception of the crown from his hands.
Heads were still bowed in the solemn hush that followed the benediction and no one saw me go.
At the end of the last sermon that she heard in her own church, the pastor, who had known her from babyhood, gave her a loving benediction and farewell.
The benediction was pronounced and the procession turned slowly away.
The triumphant death of Memotas was not only a revelation and a benediction to Oowikapun and Astumastao, and many other Christian Indians, but it caused the full and complete surrender of many hard, stubborn hearts to Christ.
In the name of the English Church, I here pronounce that curse invalid, and give my benediction to the man who has pity on the sufferings of a luckless race, who will help to make its oppressor bite the dust!
As in all conventual institutions, the inmates are required to go through quite a series of devotional exercises from morning mass to the Benediction Night Prayers.
High mass was at half-past nine (in the morning) and benediction at half-past one, immediately after which they returned in boats down the stream much more quickly.
The day before was a more local pilgrimage: mass and benediction were at eight, but pilgrims came about all the morning.
And is it nothing to have achieved that this benediction should have been possible after such a life?
And still the nameless agonies of the martyr's death are forgotten for the angel-benediction at her grave.
At the conclusion of the Governor's address the benediction was pronounced by the Rev.
And with this benediction the young couple set out homewards.
Mr. Grant uttered all this in a musing tone, as though his mind was dwelling upon other things than those immediately under discussion; but there was much grave tenderness in the sort of benediction with which he concluded.
The Canon was shaken by it himself, his voice trembled in the benediction that followed.
The solemn benediction atoned for any little momentary brusquerie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benediction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
