God bless you

[Zague]

What is the proper answer to "God bless you" in a conversation. Is iT "God bless you too"? Or just "Thank you". What if it is between two clergymen?

Z.

[dodonaomik]

or "the same to you" ?

[dodonaomik]

No one can help us?Oh, my gosh!

[BobK]

Or just 'And you'. If someone says 'God b/B]less you' when you sneeze it's common to say 'thank you' - or at least to acknowledge the thought in some way. [I believe there's a superstition, upheld by some, that it's Bad Luck to say 'Thank you' in this case - though it's never bothered me.]

Two clergymen might quote the Book of Common Prayer: 'The Lord be with you'/'And with thy spirit'; or the translation from the Vulgate - Dominus vobis*cum/Et com spiritu tuo.

* As this is addressed by the priest to the congregation, it's plural in the quotation. A well-schooled clergyman might say tecum instead, unless he was addressing at least two others. (This is getting a bit silly though. )

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