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Is there a more trustworthy source that random tip from the Internet, though? I’m not sure how many churchgoers really listen to what the priest says during the ceremony of blessing their foods, but the blessing formulas he recites specify the food products that are actually being blessed. And explains why these and not others to boot! Bread and other baked goods are the first to be sprinkled with holy water.
[[File:Święcenie jadła pod figurą.jpg|thumb|upright|Blessing of food outdoors, under a cross<br>{{small|by By Jan Feliks Piwarski (1859)}}]]
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| O Living Bread, who descended from heaven and give life to the world, '''bless this bread and all festive baked goods''' in memory of the bread with which You fed the people who were steadfastly listening to You in the desert and which You took in Your holy and venerable hands to transfigure it into Your Body.