(tuh-RON-toh BLES-ing) 
noun
A form of religious rapture marked by outbreaks of mass fainting, laughter, shaking, weeping, fainting, speaking in tongues, etc.
Etymology
After Toronto, Canada, where the phenomenon was experienced in a church in Jan 1994.]
"[The movie Pan's Labyrinth] was received in awestruck rapture by the world's press, and left me feeling a little like a Roman Catholic prelate at a Pentecostal ceremony, smiling with thin politeness while all around congregants were getting a Toronto Blessing full in the face." — Peter Bradshaw; Hellboy II: The Golden Army; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 15, 2008.
"We'd have the Toronto Blessing 24/7, hooting away at our own puffed-up selves, and our imagined separation from others -- and laughing in the final realization that we're all in this together." — Geoff Olson; The Great Whatever; Vancouver Sun (Canada); Apr 14, 2001.
