sentences:  This is done because the Orthodox view the priestly office as the one through which Christ lives with his people and thus the blessing is the essential bestowing of Christ's love and grace through His priest to the Orthodox person being blessed.Blessings like this are also used during services to signify the approval of Christ and the Church for some action a lower order person is going to do.Orthodox worship, in keeping with the earliest traditions of Christian worship, involves eating as part of services probably more than any other denomination.