Saying Grace: Bless Us Oh Lord or Make It Up
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Saying grace before meals is a common tradition in the Catholic faith. Today, Jeff delves into the biblical history of praying before meals and offers us two main ways to pray before meals so that however we pray, it may be a meaningful tradition in our homes.
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When we bless God before meals, we acknowledge that he is the giver of all good gifts.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show episode 192 saying Grace. Bless us, O Lord, or make it up. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:18.6 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff |
| 0:25.3 | Caven show. And thank you for joining me. It is a cold day in Minnesota deep in the woods right now and we're in the 20s and I |
| 0:37.8 | just got done snow-blowing the driveway getting about four or five inches off we've had in the |
| 0:44.2 | last couple days and and it is cold you know it's that kind of cold down in the |
| 0:49.0 | south you only see this in movies but you walk around on the snow and there is a distinct crunchiness that says |
| 0:56.4 | we're about 20 degrees and it even gets more crunchy when you get down to about zero. |
| 1:01.2 | Nevertheless, here I am with you and I have my hands wrapped around a very warm |
| 1:07.7 | cup of coffee and that is really really good. I do love the winter. It does get cold but I do love the winter. It does get cold, but I do love the winter and every season has a lesson in itself. |
| 1:19.0 | Hey, I want to thank you for joining me. This is a program today that we're going to talk a little bit about something that most of us do and that is |
| 1:26.6 | that we say grace before we eat. |
| 1:30.7 | And I was raised Catholic and I'm assuming that you probably were raised Catholic or you're a convert, |
| 1:36.4 | weavert. And these are some of my earliest memories. You know, growing up, I didn't know any other way to start dinner than to say the sign of the cross and |
| 1:46.8 | then to say bless us O Lord and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from |
| 1:52.1 | thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen. |
| 1:56.4 | And then we do the sign of the cross again. |
| 1:59.7 | And that has been built into us. |
| 2:01.8 | It's something that we don't even have to think about memorizing. It just |
| 2:06.0 | comes out of our mouth, right? And so today I want to talk to you about Grace, saying Grace, and I want to look at two different ways of doing it. |
| 2:15.7 | One is a wrote prayer which is the one that I just gave you and then I would also like to look |
| 2:21.0 | at impromptu prayer making up a prayer on the spot before you eat. |
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