BLESSING OF CROPS AND VINEYARDS

THE BLESSING OF CROPS AND VINEYARDS

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.

R. Who made heaven and earth.

V. The Lord be with you.

R. And with your spirit.

LET US PRAY: We ask thee, dear Lord God Almighty, in thy goodness to let thy blessing fall like welcome rain upon these growing crops; since it has pleased thee, mingling sunshine and showers, to bring them into being and to nourish them. Make the fruit of this earth of thine to ripen and be gathered in harvest: make thy people ever thankful for thy gifts. So mayest thou fill the hungry with abundance of good things from the richness of the soil, and the needy and the poor may praise and glorify thy name. Through Christ our Lord.

R. Amen.

They are sprinkled with holy water.

BENEDICTIO SUPER FRUGES ET VINEAS

V. Adjutórium nostrum in nómine Dómini.

R. Qui fecit cælum et terram.

V. Dóminus vobíscum.

R. Et cum spíritu tuo.

Orémus.

Orámus pietátem tuam, omnípotens Deus, ut has primítias creatúræ tuæ, quas áëris et plúviæ temperaménto nutríre dignátus es, bene dictiónis tuæ imbre perfúndas, et fructus terræ tuæ usque ad maturitátem perdúcas. Tríbue quoque pópulo tuo de tuis munéribus tibi semper grátias ágere; ut a fertilitáte terræ esuriéntium ánimas bonis ómnibus affluéntibus répleas, et egénus et pauper laudent nomen glóriæ tuæ. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.

R. Amen.

Et aspergantur aqua benedicta.

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