Book of Blessings: Approved for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America by the National Conference of...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 799 pages
• Published by: Liturgical Press November 1989
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0814618758
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0814618752
• Book Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 2.2 inches
• Weighs: 3.6 pounds

Reader Reviews
This is the official English translation of the Latin "De Benedictionibus" and is the authorized text for Roman Catholic blessings. Some things deserve mention beyond these basic facts, however. In practice I do not see this book receiving widespread use. It will surely be used for those occasions when a bishop blesses a new organ or set of bells for a parish, or when ministers are installed for service...but when an elderly woman wants her rosary beads blessed, I doubt whether any priest will celebrate a Liturgy of the Word with optional singing and general intercessions. Also, scanning these prayers of blessing one often wonders exactly when the objects are blessed...there is a lot of talking about blessing but not much actual explicit blessing...many of the prayers of the former Roman Ritual for blessing were far better from the literary sense and actually conveyed to lay people without a theological training in blessings the idea that their cars-bibles-crosses were actually being blessed.