The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ritual dating back to over 2,500 years ago when King Solomon’s Temple stood on the same site. The blessing is performed by Jewish men who can trace ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing prayer ...

Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional Priestly Blessing, a ...

Philippines Info from Licensor: "This is a final blessing of a local priest in the Philippines. Instead of using aspergillum, a traditional way of sprinkling holy water, he uses water pump." ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests ... Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs.

In Germany, individual priests have been blessing same ... It said ultimately, a blessing is about helping people increase their trust in God. “It is a seed of the Holy Spirit that must be ...

In a joint statement the priest, Wendelin Bucheli, and the vicar general of Chur, Martin Grichting, wrote that Bucheli regretted that “many people had been hurt” because of the blessing.

The present order may be used by a priest or deacon ... to the circumstances of the place and the people involved. There is to be no blessing of a new home unless those who will live in it ...

The news carried in The Times newspaper and online reports that King Juan Carlos of Spain is to approve “the appointment of a priest from Gibraltar as head of a leading Catholic training college ...