Pontifical Blessing

In Missa pontificali celebrans accipit mitram et, extendens manus, dicit:

Dominus vobiscum.

Omnes respondent:

Et cum spiritu tuo.

Celebrans dicit:

Sit nomen Domini benedictum.

Omnes respondent:

Ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

Celebrans dicit:

Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.

Omnes respondent:

Qui fecit cælum et terram.

Tunc celebrans, accepto, si eo utitur, baculo, dicit:

Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus,

ter signum crucis super populum faciens, addit:

Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus.

Omnes:

Amen.

The official English translation is:

In a Pontifical Mass, the celebrant receives the mitre and, extending his hands, says:

The Lord be with you.

All reply:

And with your spirit.

The celebrant says:

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

All reply:

Now and for ever.

The celebrant says:

Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All reply:

Who made heaven and earth.

Then the celebrant receives the pastoral staff, if he uses it, and says:

May almighty God bless you,

making the Sign of the Cross over the people three times, he adds:

the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

All:

Amen.