What does a blessing do? Father Hugh Barber is next.

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living,

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I'm Cy Kelle at your host and what a blessing to have you here with us today.

Catholics are constantly getting stuff blessed.

If a priest starts to bless us, we know exactly what to do.

Every now and then someone will show you their rosary and tell you who blessed it.

You know, oh, this was blessed by Pope Francis in, you know, 2014 or something like that.

But what is a blessing?

What are we doing when we're asking to have an item blessed

or a person blessed or an undertaking blessed? We asked Father Hugh Barber who gives us a blessing at the end of this

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Father Hugh Barber to bless you with a discussion of blessings. As a person who's born and raised a Catholic, you get used to blessings and sometimes the thing that's common you never stop and ask like what exactly is happening here so let's go right to the most basic question what is a blessing?

Okay, it's a pretty simple thing from the point of view of the words.

If you speak Latin, Greek, and Hebrew,

that it's very easy to understand.

So for you and me in other words.

Right, because blessing in Latin Greek in Hebrew means to speak well, something, or someone, or some action.

Benet de Chere in Latin.

Or if you like the restored pronunciation

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