Benedictus, Benedicat per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum is a Latin grace for saying before a meal. Apparently, it means: "May he who is Blessed bless [this food] through Jesus Christ Our Lord."
Benedicto Benedicatur, per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum is the corresponding closing grace.
Are we witnessing the final days even in Oxbridge Colleges, of these blessings and indeed of Greats altogether? Belfast Grammar School ancien élève.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you can work out which College I attended:-
DeleteBenedic nos Domine, et dona Tua, quae de tua largitate sumus sumpturi, et concede, ut illis salubriter nutriti, Tibi debitum obsequium praestare valeamus, per Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen.
Deus est caritas, et qui manet in caritate in Deo manet, et Deus in eo: sit Deus in nobis, et nos maneamus in ipso, Amen.
Both were regularly said back in the 1990s whilst I was a scholar there.
That grace was said at Keble in the 80s...
DeleteI hope not,as a Mitcham grammar alumni!
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