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The Common Table Prayer

The best-known table grace in Lutheran and wider German-American Protestant households, appearing in print by the eighteenth century and passed down mostly by memory rather than by book.

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

Traditional Lutheran table grace (Komm, Herr Jesu)

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Its brevity is the point: it can be taught to a three-year-old and still said honestly at ninety.

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