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.
Come Lord Jesus be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed, amen.
Funny.
“Pray incantations in Latin - Catholics again”
Not allowed by our current “Pope”.
I think it might have been a John Wayne movie, but not sure about that either.
Praying in a Selma accent -- Hillary at a luncheon on the campaign trail
Praying with eyes closed, head bowed, solemn and using a kind of broken English with some words that never were part of the English language but sound like they could have been centuries ago -- grown modern worshipper trying to make traditional Mama proud at the dinner table
Thanking God for a good hunt even though the meat they're about to eat was pastured, not hunted -- out of touch Republican politician at a luncheon on the campaign trail
I grew up in a Catholic family, went to Catholic schools, etc, etc...
Due to having older parents and uncles I was exposed to a bit of Latin but never in any church service.
Until this year.
My mother passed away at the beginning of this year and during her funeral mass the priest used Latin at several points.
It was surreal. In a small rural Australian town a black priest from Tanzania was using Latin during a funeral mass for one of his parishioners in likely defiance of a Papal decree.
I don’t regard myself as Catholic anymore; I’m a Christian who’s studying the Bible to better understand God’s word and trying to find a local church that’s actually biblically based. But it looks like there’s a split between the lefty senior leadership and the conservative priests and laity.
He shot it in the behind and the bear whirled around and charged. Stunned that the shot seemed to have little effect, he ripped off another shot and shredded the bear's left ear. On it came directly after him. He dropped the gun, took off running towards his pickup and suddenly tripped on a limb and fell face down in the mud.
He began praying earnestly reminding God he had been "...faithful, instant in season and out of season and, please, God, would you make that bear a Christian!". Immediately, all was quiet. He raised himself up, looked back, and the bear...only a few yards away now, was on his knees praying, "Dear God, thank you for this food we are about to eat."
Today's lineup:
Prelude: Mozart, "Jubilate Deo"
Offertory: Chant, "Regina Caeli"; Gregor Aichinger, "Regina Caeli"
Communion: At last! English! Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
The Catholic Church: come for the theology, stay for the music (and the Latin).
I’m glad you had an experience of how Latin promotes the universality of the Catholic Church.
If you study the Bible closely, you will notice that the New Testament includes instructions to obey precepts that were conveyed orally, not in writing. You cannot be “Biblical” without recognizing the existence within the Church of an oral deposit of the faith transmitted through apostolic tradition.
The Catholic Church is the only body that can tell you why you can be confident that the Bible is God’s word. Come back to the Catholic Church.
This, of course, is not a healthy meal but it is what we've got so bless it any way and let it nourish us some how.
Holy Spirit of Low Carb rain down upon us!
Amen.
(our oldest thinks he is a comedian)
BAHAHAHA!
My Oma or Opa would pray, “Come Lord Jesus be our guest and rest your blessed soul upon us. Amen. “
Our relatives must have come from the same part of Europe.
Good bread, good meat
Good God, let’s eat.
“Rub-a-dub-dub, Thanks for the grub”
- Infantry
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Who eats the fastest gets the most
You must be German.
As a Protestant I've heard and read many teachings on why we can be confident that the Bible is God's Word. And I've taught it myself. You haven't been out much if you think the RCC has a monopoly on the topic.
Irenaeus -- "We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith."
Basically as early as the 2nd century Irenaeus and Tertullian were teaching Apostolic Tradition, and once the apostles wrote it down as Scripture it's the ground and pillar of our faith. Neither Irenaeus nor Tertullian said to abide by tradition that was not written down as Scripture. In other words, tradition not written into Scripture doesn't qualify as the kind of "tradition" they said as the ground and pillar of our faith.
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