benediction

A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service).

to pronounce / give / say the benediction

the nuptial benediction

In the Anglican church, the ceremony used to institute an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.

What Consecration is to a Bishop, that Benediction is to an Abbot; but in a different way: For a Bishop is not properly such till Consecration; but an Abbot being elected and confirm’d, is properly such before Benediction.

A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.

[He] later liked to attend benediction in the chapel at Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; [...]

Help, good fortune or reward from God or another supernatural source.

[…] they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:

Homeward serenely she walked with God’s benediction upon her.