Devotion to Jesus: the power of priestly blessing

The sign of the cross means to return to Christ
With his death on the cross for the sake of sinners, Christ lifted the sinner's curse from the world. However, man always continues to sin and the Church must always help to carry out the Redemption in the name of the Lord. And this happens in a particular way through the Holy Mass and the Sacraments, but also through the Sacramentals: blessings of the priests, holy water, blessed candles, blessed oil, etc.
Every sign of the cross made with faith is already a sign of blessing. The cross radiates a current of blessing for the whole world, for every soul that believes in God and in the strength of the cross. Every man united to God can make Redemption every time he makes a sign of the cross.
The blessing belongs absolutely to Christians.
The Lord said: "Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will grant you" (Jn 16,23:XNUMX). Therefore: where there is the name of the Lord, there is a blessing; where there is the sign of his Holy Cross, there is help.
“You complain about the wickedness of the world, or about the lack of respect and incomprehension of the people around you. Your patience and nerves are put to the test and often run away, despite the best intentions. Find once and for all the means and the recipe of the daily blessing (Father Kieffer O. Cap.).
Take some holy water every morning, make a sign of the cross and say: “In the name of Jesus I bless all my family, I bless everyone I meet. I bless all those who recommend themselves to my prayers, I bless our home and all those who enter and leave it. "
There are many people, men and women, who do it every day. Even if this act is not always felt, it always has a positive effect. The main thing is this: make the sign of the cross slowly and say the formula of blessing with the heart!
"Oh, how many, how many people I have blessed!", Said the wife of a lieutenant colonel, Maria Teresa. “I was the first one to get up in my house: I blessed my husband, who was still sleeping, with holy water, I often prayed bending over him. Then I went into the children's room, woke up the little ones, and they recited the morning prayers with folded hands and aloud. Then I made them a cross on the forehead, blessed them and said something about the guardian angels.
When everyone had left the house, I started to bless again. I mostly went to every room, begging for protection and blessings. I also said: `` My God, protect all those you have entrusted to me: keep them under your paternal protection, with everything I own and have to administer, since everything belongs to you. You have given us many things: keep them, and arrange for them to serve us, but never to be an occasion for sin. '
When there are guests in my house, I pray for them several times before they enter my house and send them the blessing. I have often been told that there was something special about me, a great peace was felt.
I felt in myself and in others that blessings have a great living force. "

Christ always wants to be active in his blessing apostles.
Of course: we want to distinguish the sacraments well from the sacraments. The Sacramentals were not instituted by Christ and do not communicate sanctifying grace, but predispose to receive it, by virtue of our faith, in the infinite merits of Jesus Christ. The priest's blessing draws from the infinite riches of the Heart of Jesus, and therefore has a saving and sanctifying force, an exorcising and protective power. The priest celebrates Mass every day, administers the sacraments when necessary, but can bless continuously and everywhere. So too can a sick priest, persecuted or imprisoned.
A priest imprisoned in a concentration camp made this moving story. He had worked a long time in Dachau in an SS factory. One day he was asked by an accountant to go immediately to a house, built in an attic, and to bless his family: “I was dressed like a poor prisoner in a concentration camp. It had never happened to me to extend my blessing arms with such emotion as at that moment. Although I had been marked for several years as an unwanted, rejected, rejected element, I was still a priest. They had asked me to give them the blessing, the only and last thing I could still give. "
A very believing peasant woman says: “In my house there is a great faith. When a priest enters us, it is as if the Lord enters: his visit makes us happy. We never let a priest come out of our house without asking for the blessing. In our family of 12 children, blessing is something tangible. "
A priest explains:
“It is true: a very precious immense treasure has been placed in my hands. Christ himself wants to work with great force through the blessing made by me, a weak man. As in the past, he was blessing through Palestine, so he wants the priest to continue blessing. Yes, we priests are millionaires, not in money, but in the grace that we communicate to others. We can and must be transmitters of blessings. All over the world there are antennas that pick up waves of blessings: sick, prisoners, marginalized, etc. Furthermore, with every blessing we give, our blessing strength increases, and our zeal for blessing grows. All this fills the priests with optimism and joy! And these feelings grow with every blessing we give in faith. " Even in our difficult times.
Among other things, Our Lady in Medjugorje said that her blessing is less than that of priests, because the priestly blessing is the blessing of Jesus itself.
JESUS ​​TALKS ABOUT THE POWER OF BLESSING TO THE GERMAN STIGMATIZED TERESA NEUMANN
Dear daughter, I want to teach you to receive My Blessing with fervor. Try to understand that something big happens when you receive the blessing from one of my priests. The blessing is an overflow of my Divine Holiness. Open your soul and let it become holy through my blessing. It is heavenly dew for the soul, through which everything that is done can be fruitful. Through the power to bless, I have given the priest the power to open the treasure of My Heart and to pour a rain of graces on souls.
When the priest blesses, I bless. Then an endless stream of graces flows from My Heart to the soul until it is completely filled. In conclusion, keep your heart open so as not to lose the benefit of the blessing. Through my blessing you receive the grace of love and help for the soul and body. My Holy Blessing contains all the help that is necessary for humanity. Through it you are given the strength and desire to seek good, to escape evil, to enjoy the protection of My children against the powers of darkness. It is a great privilege when you are allowed to receive the blessing. You cannot understand how much mercy comes to you through him. Therefore never receive the blessing in a flat or absent-minded way, but with all your full attention !! You are poor before receiving the blessing, you are rich after receiving it.
It pains me that the blessing of the Church is so little appreciated and so rarely received. Goodwill is strengthened through it, initiatives receive my particular Providence, weakness is strengthened by my Power. Thoughts and intentions are spiritualized and all bad influences neutralized. I have given my Blessing boundless powers: it comes from the Infinite Love of my Sacred Heart. The greater the zeal with which the blessing is given and received, the greater its effectiveness. Whether a child is blessed or the whole world is blessed, the blessing is far greater than 1000 worlds.
Reflect that God is immense, infinitely immense. How small things are in comparison! And the same happens, whether only one, or that many receive the blessing: this does not matter because I give each one according to the measure of his faith! And since I am infinitely rich in all goods, you are allowed to receive without measure. Your hopes are never too big, everything will exceed your deepest expectations! My daughter, protect those who give you the blessing! Highly esteem blessed things, so you will please Me, your God. Whenever you are blessed, you are united more closely to Me, sanctified again, healed and protected by the Love of my Sacred Heart. Often I keep the results of my Blessing hidden so that they are known only in eternity. Blessings often seem to have failed, but their influence is wonderful; apparently unsuccessful results are also a blessing obtained through the Holy Blessing; these are the mysteries of my Providence which I do not wish to manifest. My blessings many times produce effects unknown to the soul. Therefore have great confidence in this overflowing of My Sacred Heart and reflect seriously on this favor (what the apparent results are hidden from you).
Receive the Holy Blessing sincerely because its graces only enter the humble heart! Recede it with good will and with the intention of becoming better, then it will penetrate the depth of your heart and produce its effects.
Be a daughter of the blessing, then you, yourself will be a blessing for others.
Plenary indulgence is granted to those who receive the papal blessing URBI ET ORBI which is given on the Christmas and Easter holidays, this blessing being addressed to Rome and to the whole world can also be received via radio and television.