“Come, Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest”

Via Anxious Bench where Chris Gehrz wrote about the origin and meaning of these mealtime prayers:

Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest And let these gifts to us be blessed Amen

Be present at our table, Lord Be here and everywhere adored These mercies bless and grant that we May strengthened for thy service be. Amen.

G.K. Chesterton elsewhere:

 You say grace before meals.

All right.

But I say grace before the play and the opera,

And grace before the concert and pantomime,

And grace before I open a book,

And grace before sketching, painting,

Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing;

And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.