Commontide
Blessed are you, O Lord God, King of the Universe, for you give us food to sustain our lives and make our hearts glad; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 671
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A simple, unattributed table grace, the third of four printed under "Grace at Meals" in the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, whose opening words deliberately echo the ancient Jewish table-blessing form. It is not the same wording used in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 prayer book, which carries a different, thee/thou-register grace at the equivalent spot.