AN OMNI DENOMINATIONAL HOUSE BLESSING
O God, protect our going out and our coming in; Let us share the hospitality of this home with all who visit us, that those who enter here may know your love and peace.
O God, give your blessings to all who share this room, that we may be knit together in companionship.
O God, you fill the hungry with good things. Send your blessing on us, as we work in this kitchen, and make us ever thankful for our daily bread.
Blessed are you, Lord of heaven and earth. You formed us in wisdom and love. Refresh us in body and in spirit, and keep us in good health that we might serve you.
Be our shelter, Lord, when we are at home, our companion when we are away, and our welcome guest when we return. and at last receive us into the dwelling place you have prepared for us in your house, where you live for ever and ever.
In the name of the Eternal I bid thee evil part.
I consecrate and clear this space.
Let nothing but joy linger here.
O Pillars of this House of countless treasures, O buttresses and crossbeams, we loosen your bonds!
What is bound in you who contain all riches, those fetters and knots, with a powerful word I unloose, like Brhaspati breaking open the cavern.
We unite the bonds of your beams and clasps, of your thatch and your sides, O
House of all riches. We loosen the bonds of the clamps and bundles, of all that encircles and binds the House.
May every moment of this new Congress bring us wealth, safety, and most of all, justice, understanding and a love for one another.
