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#291 Why Do Catholics Bless Stuff? - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

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A Priest's Blessing

Blessings are invocatory, not constitutive. They have considered blessings which make something holy. You bless God because he's so good. Then you have the blessings which ask for what you need in order to accomplish the activities of human life. The priest's blessing is significant and it has a power of itself.

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