{"id":2825,"date":"2026-08-18T06:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/?page_id=2218"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:56:28","slug":"blessings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/sacraments\/blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-threshold bf-img-1\" id=\"section_1714608436\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-873611214\">\n\t<div id=\"col-703757690\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-984199183\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a hand raised in blessing over a name written on paper, candlelight -->\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">BLESSINGS<\/span>\n<h1 class=\"bf-h1\">Some rites had to be<span class=\"bf-turn\">written from scratch.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">The old books bless houses, fields, animals, and ships. They do not bless a name chosen at thirty-four, or a surgery date, or the family you assembled after the first one threw you out. This church authors those rites because they were needed and nobody else had written them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Ask for a blessing <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/sacraments\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">All nine sacraments<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1714608436 {\n  padding-top: 90px;\n  padding-bottom: 90px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1714608436 {\n    padding-top: 150px;\n    padding-bottom: 150px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-doorssec\" id=\"section_324602248\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1049164525\">\n\t<div id=\"col-529065747\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2110599733\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-doors bf-doors-3\">\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">I<\/span>\n    <h3>Blessing of a Name<\/h3><p>Your name spoken over you as a blessing, with witnesses if you want them. It is annotated in the baptismal register.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">II<\/span>\n    <h3>Rite of Welcome for the Exiled<\/h3><p>For anyone thrown out of a church. A formal act of receiving, spoken in front of people.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">III<\/span>\n    <h3>Renunciation of Harmful Teaching<\/h3><p>Naming what was done to you and setting it down. The teaching is renounced aloud; you are not asked to renounce anything about yourself.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">IV<\/span>\n    <h3>Covenant of Chosen Family<\/h3><p>For the people who became your family. Promises made in the Church&#8217;s hearing and recorded by the Registry.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">V<\/span>\n    <h3>Blessing Before Surgery<\/h3><p>Before an operation or at the beginning of a treatment course, for you and for whoever is waiting.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">VI<\/span>\n    <h3>Thanksgiving on an Anniversary of Survival<\/h3><p>For the date you did not die. Marked as thanksgiving rather than as a wound reopened.<\/p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How to ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_324602248 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_324602248 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-declsec bf-light\" id=\"section_1847867391\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-146705764\">\n\t<div id=\"col-975382037\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2036203235\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-decl\"><p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On rites this church authors<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">A blessing of a name, a welcome for the exiled, a renunciation of harmful teaching, and a covenant of chosen family are proper rites of this church, composed by the Office of the Ordinary and kept in its own book. <em>They are not sacraments and are never presented as sacraments; they are blessings, which the Church has always had the authority to compose.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1847867391 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1847867391 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-stepssec\" id=\"section_1218383626\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-672486138\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1457734810\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1051912018\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-steps\">\n  <div class=\"bf-step\"><h3>You ask<\/h3><p>Name the blessing you want, or describe the occasion and let the Chancery tell you which rite fits.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-step\"><h3>You are asked what it is for<\/h3><p>One conversation about what happened and what you want said out loud. This shapes the text.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-step\"><h3>The text is prepared for you<\/h3><p>These rites are written to the situation. Your name, the names of the people involved, and the specific teaching being renounced are put in before the day.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-step\"><h3>The rite<\/h3><p>In person or by voice, with the witnesses you choose or with none at all.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-step\"><h3>The record<\/h3><p>A Blessing of a Name is annotated in the baptismal register alongside your entry. Covenants of chosen family are recorded by the Registry and a copy is issued to each person.<\/p><span class=\"bf-step-gate\">Recorded in ink<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1218383626 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1218383626 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-splitsec bf-light\" id=\"section_1723304532\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-358937124\">\n\t<div id=\"col-424270095\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-541296038\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-split bf-split-wide\">\n  <div class=\"bf-split-media bf-img-2\"><span class=\"bf-ph\">A house key<br>and holy water<\/span><\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">THE ORDINARY BLESSINGS TOO<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Homes, animals, <em>objects, graves.<\/em><\/h2><div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">The everyday blessings of the 1952 <em>Rituale Romanum<\/em> are all available and all free: a new flat blessed before the boxes are opened, a dog or a cat blessed on any day of the year, rosaries and medals and rings, a grave blessed months after a burial nobody let you attend.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">These are asked for far more often than people expect, usually by someone who assumed it was a thing only real parishioners were allowed. Ask. A blessing of a name and a blessing of a kitchen come from the same office and cost the same nothing.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1723304532 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1723304532 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-faqsec\" id=\"section_1068465492\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1157831182\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1394578964\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2901059386\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"accordion bf-faq\">\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3651830178\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3651830178-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-is-a-blessing-of-a-name-a-second-baptism?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3651830178-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Is a blessing of a name a second baptism?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3651830178-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3651830178-label\">\n\t\t\tNo, and it is never presented as one. Your baptism already stands; the blessing of a name asks God&#8217;s favour on the name you use and puts an annotation next to your baptismal entry so the register reflects your life.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3546197113\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3546197113-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-can-my-chosen-family-covenant-be-made-legally-binding?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3546197113-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Can my chosen family covenant be made legally binding?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3546197113-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3546197113-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. It is a religious covenant recorded by the Registry, not a legal instrument, and the Chancery will not imply otherwise. Powers of attorney, wills, and healthcare directives do the legal work, and the Ordinary will urge you to sort those too.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-317285892\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-317285892-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-do-i-need-to-believe-in-god-for-a-blessing-to-matter?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-317285892-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Do I need to believe in God for a blessing to matter?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-317285892-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-317285892-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. People ask for these rites in every state of belief, including none. What is being asked is that God act, and that does not depend on your certainty that he will.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-2090566146\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-2090566146-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-what-happens-in-a-renunciation-of-harmful-teaching?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-2090566146-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>What happens in a Renunciation of Harmful Teaching?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-2090566146-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-2090566146-label\">\n\t\t\tWhat was taught to you is named specifically \u2014 the sermon, the counsellor, the programme, the verse used as a weapon \u2014 and renounced aloud. Nothing about you is renounced. Many people bring one written page and read from it.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3935324952\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3935324952-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-can-i-ask-for-a-blessing-before-surgery-at-short-notice?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3935324952-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Can I ask for a blessing before surgery at short notice?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3935324952-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3935324952-label\">\n\t\t\tYes. Surgery dates move and the Chancery works around them, including the evening before or the morning of.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1068465492 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1068465492 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-formsec bf-light\" id=\"section_213587793\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1000535450\">\n\t<div id=\"col-406381826\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-730979224\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-form\"><h3>Ask for a blessing<\/h3><p>Name the rite, or just describe the occasion. Both work.<\/p><div class='fluentform ff-default fluentform_wrapper_5 ffs_default_wrap'><form data-form_id=\"5\" id=\"fluentform_5\" class=\"frm-fluent-form fluent_form_5 ff-el-form-top ff_form_instance_5_1 ff-form-loading ffs_default\" data-form_instance=\"ff_form_instance_5_1\" method=\"POST\" ><fieldset  style=\"border: none!important;margin: 0!important;padding: 0!important;background-color: transparent!important;box-shadow: none!important;outline: none!important; min-inline-size: 100%;\">\n                    <legend class=\"ff_screen_reader_title\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0!important;padding: 0!important;height: 0!important;text-indent: -999999px;width: 0!important;overflow:hidden;\">FF_SACRAMENT<\/legend>        <div\n                style=\"display: none!important; position: absolute!important; transform: translateX(1000%)!important;\"\n                class=\"ff-el-group ff-hpsf-container\"\n        >\n            <div class=\"ff-el-input--label asterisk-right\">\n                <label for=\"ff_5_item_sf\" aria-label=\"Newsletter\">\n                    Newsletter                <\/label>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"ff-el-input--content\">\n                <input type=\"text\"\n                       name=\"item_5__fluent_sf\"\n                       class=\"ff-el-form-control\"\n                       id=\"ff_5_item_sf\"\n                \/>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type='hidden' name='__fluent_form_embded_post_id' value='2825' \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_fluentform_5_fluentformnonce\" name=\"_fluentform_5_fluentformnonce\" value=\"db4db51554\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2825\" \/><div class='ff-el-group'><div class=\"ff-el-input--label ff-el-is-required asterisk-right\"><label for='ff_5_dropdown' id='label_ff_5_dropdown' aria-label=\"Which sacrament\">Which sacrament<\/label><div class=\"ff-el-tooltip\" data-content=\"If you are not sure, choose Not sure. 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Nothing you describe is published, and a name you share here is never used in any other correspondence without your say-so.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_213587793 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_213587793 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-ctasec\" id=\"section_934474197\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-2086970966\">\n\t<div id=\"col-428750737\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3154544444\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">BLESSINGS<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">If the book doesn&#8217;t have it,<br><em>the book gets written.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\" style=\"margin:0 auto 36px\">Tell the Chancery what you need blessed. 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