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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248
EAN num: 9780814620892
Format: Abridged
ISBN number: 0814620892
Label: Liturgical Press
Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 604
Printing Date: 2000-08
Publishing house: Liturgical Press
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The Book of Blessings (abridged edition) includes only blessings that are rightly outside of Mass and the physical church building. It, as is typical of ritual books, includes an introduction which sets forth the theology and regulations applicable to its use. It includes within brackets the text to be used if the blessing is led by a lay rather than ordained individual.
Blessings of person includes in chapter one blessings for families, married couples, children, parents before childbirth, parents after a miscarriage etc. The second chapter provides blessings for the sick, those suffering an addition, the victims of crime etc. The remaining six chapters cover individuals involved in RCIA, school, meetings, organizations concerned with public needs, pilgrims and other travelers.
Blessings of buildings and human activities are spread over fourteen chapeters covering, buildings sites, new homes, work place, athletic fields, means of transportaion, boats and fishing gear, animals, feilds, seeds, harvest thanksgiving, and meals.
There is a short section of blessings for religious articles, rosaries, scapulars etc.
Blessings related to feasts and seasons are the portion of the ritual book that is useful in any family. This includes blessings for the Advent wreath, the creche, the Christmas Trees, the home in Easter and Christmas seasons as well as the more communally celebrated blessings of throats on the Feast of Saint Blase, of Ashes on Ash Wednesday, visiting of a cemetery on All Souls Day or Memorial Day.
The final section provides blessing for various occasions such as blessing of a parish council, at an inauguration of a public official, in general thanksgiving ..
An appendix provides a number of blessings and prayers which may conclude any of the blessings in this book or those of morning and evening prayer.
This is a well printed, well indexed, easy to use ritual book.
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