Posted on 05/22/2022 5:44:21 PM PDT by DFG
Depending on who you ask there are many ways to say grace before a meal. You show us how you pray when gathered with others and we'll tell you what that says about your theology.
So listen carefully next time during grace and that'll be a dead giveaway as to what that person believes.
The prayer is for massively unhealthy fried chicken and casseroles to nurture our bodies - Baptist
Every other word is "thou", "thy", or "yeoldethinesteth" - KJV Baptist
Prayer is led by a woman - Hey, wait a minute, you're not a Christian!
Prayer is about how terrible, awful, and undeserving we all are of the food we're about to eat - Calvinist
No prayer - Unitarian
Makes strange hand gestures, might be praying or summoning an eldritch Lovecraftian horror - Catholic
Starts with Daddy God - Episcopalian
Start with Mother God - Episcopalian
Recites ancient prayer claimed to have been the exact words the Apostle Peter prayed over his fish tacos - Eastern Orthodox
Makes everyone hold hands - Your mom. DAAAAAANG!
Says cute little liturgical prayer between gulps of beer - Lutheran
By thanking the moon and sun god for this bountiful harvest - Wait a second! You're a pagan!
Pray incantations in Latin - Catholics again
Pray incantations in Pig Latin - Joe Biden
Only Dad prays in this house - Presbyterian
Peek through your eyelids during prayer to see if the tide is back in and the surf is lookin' gnarly - Calvary Chapel
Silent prayer over delicious oatmeal - Quaker
Prays in Hebrew and glances around to see if everyone noticed - Seminary student
No prayer just rolling around on the floor saying gibberish - Pentecostal
Well there you have it folks! That's the definitive list of all the different ways to say grace.
You’re Lutheran
Probably LC-MS or WELS
cute :)
I am not a Catholic, but my closest friend is. She is expert in all things musical, and her church has Latin services.
I am a semi-professional chorister, and have sung many times in Catholic services, sometimes for hire (for major events and works), but often gratis.
Of all things I have sung, “Ave verum corpus” [K. 618] is my favorite.
Funny; that's not what the Bible says. It is the Church -- not Scripture -- that is the pillar and ground of the truth. 1 Tim 3:15.
Neither Irenaeus nor Tertullian said to abide by tradition that was not written down as Scripture.
Didn't they? Funny; the Bible does. 2 Thess 2:15. And elsewhere.
Lutheran. Pretty good, Secret Agent Man. American Lutheran Church formed in 1960 merging with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in ‘87.
Raised in it. Sunday School. Forsook the gathering of the assembly in 1963.
Yes, from Moorasmoor.
St. Paul adjures his recipients to keep "what you have heard from us either by letter, or by word of mouth." And St. John says that he's only written down a fraction of the things that Christ said and did, because if he told everything there wouldn't be a book (scroll) big enough to hold it all.
But my favorite "Ave verum" is the little jewel by William Byrd of England - "Our Fenix, Mr. Byrd."
Our choirmaster (a DMA Juilliard) says it may be the most perfect short motet ever composed. I can't disagree (but I was raised Anglican, so . . . )
The Truth is God’s word that a pillar is supposed to uphold.
The pillar is not the truth itself.
Catholicism is NOT Truth no matter how many times they claim it is.
Besides, Catholicism is not what determines Scripture and did not give it to us.
Scripture is of the Jews and Jesus Himself throughout the gospels tells us what books of Scripture are Scripture. He called the Law and the prophets Scripture and that He came to fulfill them. That’s all the validation anyone needs for any book of the OT.
Putting Catholicism and its traditions above God will not end well for those who do it. God will not share His glory with another.
Which is not license for any religion to make up traditions it wants and to treat them as equivalent to Scripture.
There is simply no way to verify that what Catholicism claims are sacred oral tradition was actually taught by the apostles or that it was passed down faithfully and accurately for 2,000 years without corruption.
The only way to do that would be to have written it down.
Oh wait……
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