College Grace
It is customary to open each formal dinner (held every Monday through Wednesday) at Queen's with a Grace. The college's full Latin grace is as follows:
- Domine, qui aperis manum tuam et omnia implentur bonitate,
- Benedicere dignare cibum istum
- Ut nos, ex eo gustantes,
- Inde corporis et animi accipiamus sanitatem.
- Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen.
An English translation is:
- Lord, you open your generous hand
- And the whole world is filled with good things.
- Please bless this food we are about to eat,
- So that we may have healthy bodies and healthy minds,
- Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
An English grace was composed by Master Henley in 1995, with the proviso that the Latin grace be retained at least once per week.
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