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  • image_desc=Germanos blessing the flag at Agia Lavra| text=The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution ...
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  • good stewardship over all of nature, the Third Blessing given to humankind. However, Unification Thought explains that without accomplishing the ...
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  • Jacob's winning, by deception, the blessing of his father Isaac. She ... bless her and send her on her way. Their blessing became traditional in Jewish ...
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  • of God. This in effect fulfills the "first blessing" given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and is to be followed by the second and ...
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  • requires the recitation of a particular blessing as follows: ... Any Jew is permitted to perform this blessing, regardless of whether ...
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  • The Orthodox Churches perform the Great Blessing of the Waters on ... the faithful, and used with prayer as a blessing. People will not only bless ...
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  • tricked him out of receiving Isaac's blessing. As a result, Esau planned ... ===Tricked out of his blessing=== When Isaac was old and nearly blind ...
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  • Stage: Scripts for Grades 4-8, ed. Matt Blessing (Madison: The State Historical ... Babcock's Invention]. edited by Matt Blessing, Madison: The State Historical ...
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  • many adversities to win God's blessing and a central place as the ... ===Jacob Obtains his Father's Blessing=== Many years passed and ...
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  • the hands"). This is done with a blessing prior to eating any bread ... *Before blessing of Asher yatzar ("Who created [the man]" ...
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  • Islam, when they happily depict the final blessing of the faithful that are ... The second blessing of the Amidah, the central thrice-daily Jewish ...
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  • becomes inspired by God and insists on blessing Israel instead. He is perhaps ... on each, Balaam provides another prophecy blessing Israel, declaring: "There ...
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  • to him again, and renews the promise of blessing. To commemorate this, Isaac ... and favorite son, to him to receive his blessing. Isaac directs Esau to procure ...
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  • Beyond individual rights and growth to maturity, the second Blessing God gave His children is that of conjugal love which results in the expansion ...
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  • ====The first blessing==== Recited all eight nights just prior to lighting ... ====The second blessing==== Recited all eight nights just prior to ...
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  • The empire may have crumbled but if the Pope's blessing was necessary for any king to be recognized as legitimate, even though power was ...
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  • which closes with a typical Pauline blessing: "The grace of our ... principle that, while charity is a blessing to the giver, no true Christian ...
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  • this is not what nature made, but what the blessing consecrated, and the power of blessing is greater than that of nature, because by blessing nature ...
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  • and the "happy ending" of God blessing Noah's family under ... quot; God forbade murder, and renewed the blessing he had earlier given to ...
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  • at Waterville, Maine in 1876, and with the blessing of his parents went to study theology at the Baptist Andover Newton Theological School. He graduated ...
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  • are preserved in a Georgian version only (The Blessing of Jacob, The Blessing of Moses, The Narrative of David and Goliath)—A great part of the ...
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  • #Kadeish קדש (Recital of Kiddush blessing and drinking of the First ... #Motzi מוציא (Traditional blessing before eating bread products) ...
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  • Angevin Empire. The invasion had the Pope's blessing because Irish Christianity did not conform to Rome's rules. Therefore, Ireland could be ...
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  • These priestesses were believed to bring blessing and fertility to the land ... the deep may be preserved in Jacob's blessing to his sons in Genesis 49:25 ...
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  • Roman Emperor had taken place only under papal blessing, and therefore all blessing, coronation, and investiture of the Emperor was dependent upon the Pope. ...
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  • he does not conclude with a blessing. ==Significance== [[Image:Bamberger Apokalypse - Book with 7 Seals - The Second Beast.JPG|thumb|The dragon ...
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  • At Passover celebrations, the blessing and partaking of bread and ... quot;; and likewise that "the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood ...
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  • or by picture. Often this "Marriage Blessing" has been given through ... "Unity Through the Matching and Blessing" in The Founding of ...
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  • ===Psycho: The Cursed Blessing=== [[File:AnthonyPerkinsPsycho.jpg|thumb|300px|Anthony Perkins in Psycho]] Perkins acted in numerous acclaimed ...
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  • holy water ceremony part of it marriage blessing ritual, in which a couple ... |Included in the marriage blessing ceremony symbolizing God's ...
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  • of your obedience." He closes with a blessing and greetings from his "fellow workers," among whom are mentioned both Mark and ...
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  • analogion is placed a Gospel Book and a blessing cross. The confession often ... forgiveness. The priest then pronounces a blessing. The rite of Mutual Forgiveness ...
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  • Baptism, Confirmation, Blessing of Children, The Lord's Supper, Marriage, Administration to the Sick, Ordination, and the "Evangelist ...
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  • God to the Israelites, setting forth the blessing that will flow from obedience ... to the section, giving promises of blessing for obedience to these commandments ...
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  • rising fortunes: "When we view the great blessing with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we posses ...
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  • emperor, Nero, and with the emperor's blessing he won a prize for poetry in 60 C.E. Nero, however, was a notoriously capricious ruler, and shortly ...
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  • also well-known for holding, since 1960, Blessing Ceremonies, which are often ... ==Marriage, Blessing and Family== ===The role of ideal families in ...
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  • two folded hands in front of him are both blessing and greeting those who have ... a reward, Atri and Anusuya received the blessing of having all three murtis ...
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  • British imperial project was no doubt a mixed blessing, if not a curse, for those who found themselves subject to British rule. Yet wherever they went ...
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  • individuals, and is nevertheless a public blessing" (List 1856). ... within Great Britain had been a great blessing. Did he also foresee an ...
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  • 5) Marriage refers to the blessing of God bestowed upon husband and ... not only evokes God's love and blessing of the family relationship ...
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  • *Christ Blessing (1505) Pinacoteca Civica Tosio Martinengo, Brescia, Italy *Madonna Terranova (1504-1505) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ...
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  • the case of Agnus Deis of giving a papal blessing to medals and even of enriching ... The custom of blessing and indulging medals is said to have rapidly ...
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  • to do with what, in many ways, came as a great blessing: His discovery of Ella Fitzgerald when she won a singing contest on "Harlem Amateur Hour ...
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  • They may not absolve sins or pronounce a blessing in the name of the Church. An Anglican deacon wears an identical choir dress to an Anglican ...
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  • He is the one to whom God gave the blessing of descendants "like ... ===Blessing by Melchizedek=== After about eight years, a war developed ...
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  • their father Isaac into giving Jacob his blessing, which was meant for Esau ... but destined to losing his birthright and blessing to Jacob, so the Edomites ...
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  • quot;). The ceremony invoked God's blessing for rain in its proper time ... in celebration of God's bounty and blessing. In Israel's synagogues ...
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  • :I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse---the blessing ... *Moses' final blessing, which is pronounced upon the individual ...
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  • is expressed in the Bible through the blessing given by God to Adam and ... lost both his birthright and Isaac's blessing when given to Jacob instead ...
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