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Grace before the Meal, by Fritz von Uhde, 1885. A grace is a short prayer or thankful phrase said before or after eating. [1] The term most commonly refers to Christian traditions. Some traditions hold that grace and thanksgiving imparts a blessing which sanctifies the meal. In English, reciting such a prayer is sometimes referred to as "saying ...
Note that the first two lines are different from either the contemporary version or the "Wilderness" version. This original version is copied here verbatim from a handwritten copy of The Worth Ranch Grace written on a small piece of note paper by James P. Fitch, Region Nine Scout Executive, during a trip to Worth Ranch in the 1930s.
Sometimes the verse of Psalm 136:1 is added at the end. "O give thanks unto/to the Lord, for He is good: For His mercy/love endureth/endures forever." This part of the prayer is prayed either right after the first part of the prayer before a meal or separately from the first part of the prayer at the end of a meal.
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The practice of sharing an agape meal is mentioned in Jude 1:12 of the Christian Bible and has been said to be a "common meal of the early church". [9] References to communal meals are found in 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 and in Saint Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Smyrnaeans, where the term agape is used, and in a letter from Pliny the ...
Emmanuel Congressional Church, 119 S. Hamilton St., is hosting free community meals Monday to Friday, from 5 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., all winter long. The church ... Church offers community meals as ...
The song is a prayer to bless gifts in general, but is mostly used as a prayer before a meal, saying grace. [1] It is a round for two voices. [ 2 ] The song was included in the 2013 German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob as GL 88, in the section Tischgebete (Grace), [ 1 ] also with an alternate text: "Dank dir, Vater, für die Gaben" (Thank you ...
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