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Grace Before Meals Offers Healthy Servings of Ideas & Recipes for Family Mealtimes
A Month of Food for Thought: Your Family’s Favorite Grace Before Meals?
This month’s theme at the Catholic Post Book Group is food, since the reviewed book for this month is cooking priest Father Leo Patalinghug’s new edition of Grace Before Meals, a cookbook that encourages family mealtimes for both spiritual and physical reasons. I’m very enthusiastic about this book, and I have Fr. Leo’s famous Throwdown-winning fajita recipe ready to try at our house sometime this month. My review will post tomorrow, and also appear in in the print Catholic Post this weekend.
What I hope to do this month is share and learn ideas about food & mealtimes, and how that can enrich family life and family spirituality. I hope you’ll join in and share!
First up: what is your family’s favorite grace? At our house we use the standard, “Bless us O Lord and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen.” Occasionally (or not so occasionally, for breakfast and lunch), we are saying, “which we are receiving from thy bounty” when we forget to say grace before meals. How about at your house?
First, What are You Reading? Volume 1, August 2010
Without further ado, here are the questions and my answers for this first volume of “First, What are You Reading?”
Here are the four questions again. You can answer any or all:
First, what are you reading?
What do you like best about it?
What do you like least about it?
What is next on your list to read?
Upcoming New Feature for the First of Each Month: First, What are You Reading?
Here are the questions that will be asked of you every “first” of the month:
First, what are you reading?
What do you like best about it?
What do you like least about it?
What is next on your list to read?
Did you know the Wardrobe Into Narnia is in Illinois?
Inside the wardrobe, as you can see, are fur and other winter coats, and a small sign that reads something along the lines of, “The Wade Center is not responsible for any occurrences if you enter the wardrobe.”
We spent a nice hour or reading about the authors, seeing the displays, including several cases of extremely interesting props from the Disney Narnia movies. We bought quite a few postcards, notecards and other items from the small giftshop. All in all, a nice visit and a worthwhile excursion.