[Blest paper-credit! We are using it as an adjective in front of a noun, as in "What a blessed fool you are!" and blessed be / Those that love and honor thee. It is better to be one or the other when the situation supports or calls for that. Peter Lord describes the power of blessings, both in the Bible and in real-life examples. Blessed is the past tense and past participle of bless. What about “From this day, all generations will call me blessed” ?Also, bless-ed is used for things that are good and holy in and of themselves — thus Bless-ed Mother, Bless-ed Sacrament. It comes immediately before the verb, as in "Blessed be the beasts and the children" or "Blessed are the peacemakers." The common understanding of what it means to be blessed by God is that He gives us good things.
Elsewhere, it has been pushed out of the language. This is the case throughout the English-speaking world. The above are the way Catholics do it, I’ve heard converts who haven’t absorbed these usages yet do it differently. (No one would say Bles-t Sacrament.) Both spellings descend from older forms in Old and Middle English, and both developed around the 14th century,Rude am I in my speech, / And little blest with the soft phrase of peace. To make holy by religious rite; sanctify: The clergy blessed the site for the new monastery. [ On the other hand, we say /blest/ when: Whereas the usage “he has been blessed” (as in bles-t) implies that the blessing is something that comes from without and is not an intrinsic property of the thing that is blessed.Blessed vs. Bless-ed – the differece is important in the American vernacular.What about “Blessed be god forever” during the Mass?Yup, also remember “benedicta” and “benedictus” in the Hail Mary, which are pronounced bless-ed in the English translation.Thank you! If the fountain of your inner strength is full, it behooves you to share your fountain with those whose inner fountains are running low or dry. [He has always been blessed with the sort of temperament that enables him to ignore all distractions. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." The phrase “blessed be” is found in many modern magical traditions.
Consequently, blessed can also be translated “favored.” In the New Testament, it usually carries the meaning of being “blessed by God.” As in the case of Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was “blessed among women” (Luke 1:42–45, 48), it was the Lord God who had blessed and favored her. [How blest we are to be able to rely on lawfully constituted government backed by such documents as our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. [Hurriedly Bilbo stepped back and blessed the luck of his ring. Is there a difference between using Blessed (Bless-Ed), or Blessed (Bles-t) outside of a grammatical preference or usage?If I understand you correctly, the answer is that the At least that’s how it sounds to my English-speaking American Catholic ear.And it may vary in particular if you are a member of a different religious community. But does God’s blessing pertain only to material things? Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. [Thrice all hail! [Having few wants, blest with a climate in which the rudest methods of cultivation produce abundance of food for their use, they out to be a happy and contented race. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. Although it appears in some Pagan paths, it’s typically more likely to be used in a NeoWiccan context. Matthew 5:45 says that the Father who is in the heavens causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust. If every Christian read Bless and Be Blessed, the world would be … In this respect, we can say that God’s blessing is on everyone, believers and unbelievers alike. es 1. Blest is an archaic form that shows up mainly in references to old, mostly poetical texts and as a poetic affectation.