We normally think of the word in terms of prayer. A blessing is a prayer we say. When we join as a community or retreat in private and invoke God’s ...

Rather than completely abandoning these ancient traditions, let’s reclaim, reinterpret and reshape them,” says Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein.

There are many different ways of praying. After giving a strong foundation to its teachings on prayer, the Catechism of the Catholic Church shifts and begins to dissect the many different ways of ...

My husband’s parents had invited a revered pastor—or moksanim, in Korean—to participate in our wedding. “He’s known for his benedictions,” my husband said. I didn’t know someone could specialize in ...

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Or you might remember it from ...

The 69th annual Blessing of the Fleet in Destin saw 140 vessels blessed for safety and prosperity on the water.

As a child in church, I sat through the organ hymns and incomprehensible sermons, my scrawny backside squirming on the hard pew. I followed the order of worship in the bulletin, mentally checking off ...