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Prayer

toothlighttoothlight
edited April 2015 in Writing
I was at the monthly lunch of the Probus Club in Bangor, and a new member was asked to give the prayer before the meal commenced. It was the best, concise one I've ever heard:
"Thank God.......Food." As I was asked to give the loyal toast, and as the members know my views of Charlie and Camilla, they were not surprised to hear: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Queen. Long may she reign."

Comments

  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    Haha, both excellent speeches.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Short and to the point. Gets round all that fiddling with the cutlery when you all just want to get to the good stuff.
  • LizyLizy
    Cheers!
  • CarolCarol
    :)
  • St ForceSt Force
    My Dad always had a good prayer he used to say before a roast.

    "Good wine, good food, good lord, let's eat!'
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    I was at the monthly lunch of the Probus Club in Bangor, and a new member was asked to give the prayer before the meal commenced.
    I'm surprised by that, toothlight - I thought Probus was secular!
  • toothlighttoothlight
    Just checked it out, and began in 1925 in the USA as a club for retired professional and businessmen. No mention of being secular, though linked to the Rotary Clubs. However, Grace before the lunch is the only link to religion, and I assume the loyal toast is at every UK meeting
  • ana sana s
    Would that everyone was so concise.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    No mention of being secular, though linked to the Rotary Clubs.
    Rotary is secular - I was a member of Rotary in Fiji and we had members of different faiths as well as members who were atheists. Interestingly - when I attended a Rotary meeting in Spain (run by Brits) they gave the loyal toast which greatly surprised me.
  • LizyLizy
    Secular means non-religious, no?
    A loyal toast isn't to do with religion but with national pride.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    edited April 2015
    That's right, Lizy. I was surprised because Rotary is a world-wide organisation and has nothing to do with individual nations.

    Edited to add: I wasn't questioning why probus give the loyal toast
  • JohnnywriterJohnnywriter
    edited April 2015
    My friends and I had this odd tradition when we went for a curry.

    Someone would say "Shall we say grace?"

    Everyone would reply "Grace" then we'd stuff our faces.

    Don't know where it came from, none of us are particularly religious. Well, apart from lager - we drank that pretty religiously.
  • LizyLizy
    I grew up saying grace before meals - the short 'For what we are about to recieve may the Lord make us truly grateful' one.

    On high days and holy days we'd even do a plainsong jam session with it - that was fun!
  • pongopongo
    At school the prefect on duty would usually say "Benedictus Benedecat".
    I never did know what it meant.
  • heatherheather
    My uncle used to say "Lord bless this bunch as they crunch their lunch."
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