Grace Before Meals. Benedictiones Mensae. Ante Prandium.

Minnesota State photograph, "Grace".

Date: 1918.

Source: Photograph by Eric Enstrom,

published in the United States in 1918

(and therefore public domain).

Author: Eric Enstrom.

(Wikimedia Commons)

BENEDICTIONES MENSAE (PRAYERS AT THE TABLE).

ANTE PRANDIUM.
(GRACE BEFORE MEALS).

Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona,
quae de tua largitate summus sumpturi.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Amen.

Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts,
which we are about to receive through Thy bounty.
Through Christ Our Lord.

Amen.