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**AnimeThat** · 01-23-2008, 10:04 AM

This is not how the blessing is worded in the trebnik. The prayers say "O Lord, bless this (thing) ..." or "This (thing) is blessed by the sprinkling of holy water..." They do not say "bless your servant N as he uses this (thing)" or "bless the use of this (thing) by your servant N" The prayers and blessings are quite specific that the thing itself (whether it be animal, house, barn, car, whatever) is blessed.

Fr David Moser

Fr. David,
Thank you for this correction. But is it not corect to say that the things are still blessed for our use? Not in their own right. I don't have a trebnik at hand, but just recalling the service of Great blessing of the water, that text indicates that the waters are blessed for our partaking of them, sprinkling of houses, etc, etc.

In the Lord,
Yura

01-23-2008, 10:04 AM	#23
AnimeThat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	This is not how the blessing is worded in the trebnik. The prayers say "O Lord, bless this (thing) ..." or "This (thing) is blessed by the sprinkling of holy water..." They do not say "bless your servant N as he uses this (thing)" or "bless the use of this (thing) by your servant N" The prayers and blessings are quite specific that the thing itself (whether it be animal, house, barn, car, whatever) is blessed. Fr David Moser Fr. David, Thank you for this correction. But is it not corect to say that the things are still blessed for our use? Not in their own right. I don't have a trebnik at hand, but just recalling the service of Great blessing of the water, that text indicates that the waters are blessed for our partaking of them, sprinkling of houses, etc, etc. In the Lord, Yura
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