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Zabdi_Premjit
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What prayers do you say before and after meals?
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pianistclare
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People pray any of these many many choices.
xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/Mealtime-Prayers.cfm
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Zabdi_Premjit
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Thank you, pianistclare.People pray any of these many many choices.
xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/Mealtime-Prayers.cfm
This Jesuit website you linked includes a wide array of mealtime prayers. Is this a good sampling of how most Catholics pray before and after meals? Also, I see various prayers from Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions (including a prayer addressed to Buddha). How common is it for Catholics to incorporate aspects of non-Christian prayer life and beliefs into their Catholic praxis? :grouphug:
:bowdown:Does anyone else want to share how they or those they know prayer before and after meals?
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midori
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In our house (DH doesn’t practice anything; I’m Catholic), we do the traditional “Bless us O Lord” prayer as our grace before meals, and nothing afterwards.
Growing up, we paired the traditional grace with an extra prayer— the Morning Offering at breakfast, the Angelus at lunch. When I was very little, Sunday School taught us a little kids’ grace: “Thank you for the [world so sweet?], thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing, thank you God for everything.” That one’s a little rusty.
At my Methodist MIL’s house, she does a freeform prayer.
At my Methodist (?) BIL’s house, they do freeform prayers and hold hands during grace.
Here’s an interesting article about the use/meaning of “itadakimasu” in Japan.
Growing up, we paired the traditional grace with an extra prayer— the Morning Offering at breakfast, the Angelus at lunch. When I was very little, Sunday School taught us a little kids’ grace: “Thank you for the [world so sweet?], thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing, thank you God for everything.” That one’s a little rusty.
At my Methodist MIL’s house, she does a freeform prayer.
At my Methodist (?) BIL’s house, they do freeform prayers and hold hands during grace.
Here’s an interesting article about the use/meaning of “itadakimasu” in Japan.
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DaveBj
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Before: the traditional “Bless us, O Lord” prayer.
After: “Thank you, Lord. That was GOOD!”
After: “Thank you, Lord. That was GOOD!”
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jschwartz
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We live in a day where progressives of faith are not afraid to see that which is beautiful, and indeed catholic, in other faiths. Nostra Aetate is a pretty strong statement in favor of interfaith and comparative religious approaches. The Church ought to see what unites the faithful of the world, rather than what divides, and in doing so, we’ll realize we have more in common than previously thought. Religious truth is largely universal; all are accessing the one Light, although that Light shines and refracts itself differently through different windows.Thank you, pianistclare.
This Jesuit website you linked includes a wide array of mealtime prayers. Is this a good sampling of how most Catholics pray before and after meals? Also, I see various prayers from Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions (including a prayer addressed to Buddha). How common is it for Catholics to incorporate aspects of non-Christian prayer life and beliefs into their Catholic praxis? :grouphug:
Does anyone else want to share how they or those they know prayer before and after meals?
Eucharistic theology and the theology of mealtime/eating are intertwined. Jesus offers Himself to us as Spiritual Food, Bread of Heaven, like the Manna God rained upon the Israelites. Fully feasting on Him in our hearts with faith and understanding requires us to share our food and drink with those who are hungry and thirsty. It requires us to understand how our choices in consumption affect others, the rest of Creation, and the cosmic order. Therefore, we remember the earth and the animals and trees, as well as the human hands that make our nourishment possible. The Roman Rite seems to stress these points, if you look at the offertory rites.
Sufi prayer and spirituality, as well as Buddhist, are very complementary towards Christian life. I’m surprised they don’t have any Jewish prayers on that list; the idea of grace before and after meals comes from the Jewish Birkat haMazon, whose 4 main blessings are Biblical in scope and obligation, according to the rabbis. The book of Deuteronomy, after all, says when you are eat and satisfied, bless the Lord.
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Zabdi_Premjit
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To be honest, 99% of the time when I see Western Christians say XYZ religion has ABC practice that is complementary towards Christian life, a few questions will quickly reveal that they have very scant knowledge of the religious and cultural context of ABC practice. Usually what happens is that someone saw something “cool” and gained a superficial knowledge of it, then decided he understands it in-depth. Next, he adopts the practice and spreads it, along with the superficial knowledge.
Now, the practice may really be complementary, or it may not be…but usually what is adopted is a caricature of the practice. This process can be quite trivialising to the other religious tradition. Having had many discussions with people of other faiths, I have heard many complaints about this “borrowing” from them, even from complainers who are far from conservative. Also, they tend to think borrowing “progressives” look silly, because they think they understand things they don’t.
Most people don’t even understand their own religion well, so I don’t know why they assume they understand other religions well enough to haphazardly borrow things.
There is an underlying assumption that non-Christian worldviews are so simplistic that reading a few things can make you competent in those worldviews.- Status