Benediction is often employed as a conclusion to other services, e.g. Vespers, Compline, the Stations of the Cross, etc., but it is also still more generally treated as a rite complete in itself.
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An often complex and lengthy blessing before communion took place in the mass of the Gallican Rite and in some French sees survived until the Gallican rites controversy when they were suppressed.
Bishop Monahan accepted the principle of reservation of the blessed sacrament in church and also permitted devotional services of Benediction.
On 27 May 1956, he received the blessing of his Benediction in the recently and built under his instigation and management new Abbey which had been consecrated on 2 May 1956 by the Bishop of Aachen, Johannes Pohlschneider.
During this time, he became friends with California Governor Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy; Moomaw later gave the invocation and benediction at Reagan's 1981 presidential inauguration.
His disciples once requested him to tell them whereby he merited unusual longevity, when he replied, "I have never converted the Synagogue into a passageway for the sake of convenience; have never trodden over the heads of the holy people i.e., come late to college and stepped between the rows of attentive students; compare Abdan, and have never pronounced the priestly blessing before offering the benediction preceding it" (Meg. 27b; Soṭah 39a).
The painting remains in the monastery Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, for which it was commissioned by a local clergyman, Jean de Montagny.
In both Joseph the Carpenter and The Education of the Virgin, the young Christ is represented, hand raised, as if in benediction, with the candlelight shining through the flesh as an allegorical reference to Christ as the "Light of the World."
The race start point was at Saint Peter's Square and Pope John Paul II delivered a short benediction in approval of the event and the Bells of Saint Peter's replaced the usual starter's pistol to signal the beginning of the race.
Among these are 'Truth brought to Light, or Murder will out;' 'Justice in Masquerade, or Scroggs upon Scroggs;' another beginning ' Since Justice Scroggs Pepys and Dean did bail;' 'The Pope's Advice and Benediction to his Judge and Jury in Eutopia;' 'The Wolf Justice ' (against Scroggs); 'A Caution,' and 'A Satyr' against James, Duke of York, the Duchess of Portsmouth, and William Scroggs, whom he hated for acquitting George Wakeman.
The hymn is sung during the Wednesday Novena service to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and sometimes during Benediction at the devotion's principal shrine, the Baclaran Church.