Probus Graces
For good food we give thanks
For good Fellowship we give ourselves
To good service we give our all
May we give thanks for this our food
For life and health and every good
May we, more blessed than we deserve
Live less for self and more to serve
For food in a World where many walk with hunger
For faith in a world where many walk in fear
For friends in a World where many walk alone
We give our grateful thanks to thee O Lord
Let us give thanks for food when others are hungry
For drink when others are thirsty
For friends when others are lonely
Happy the man who meets each month
With friends from near and far,
Happy the man who friendship seals
Beside a friendly bar.
Happy the man who shares his food
Amongst old Probus mates,
Happy the man who to kind ears
Sorrows and joys relates.
“God of goodness, bless our food, keep us in a pleasant mood.
Bless the chef and all who serve us, and from indigestion, Lord, preserve us. Amen.”
“For well-filled plate and brimming cup, and freedom from the washing up.
We thank you, Lord. Amen.”
In a world where so many are hungry, may we eat this food with humble hearts;
In a world where so many are lonely, may we share this friendship with joyful hearts.
May this food restore our strength, giving new energy to tired limbs, new thoughts to weary minds?
May this drink restore our souls, giving new vision to dry spirits, new warmth to cold hearts?
And once refreshed, may we give new pleasure to you, who gives us all.
Good wine, good meat, good God let’s eat!
Contemporary version
Some have meat and cannot eat;
Some cannot eat that want it:
But we have meat and we can eat
Sae let the Lord be thankit!
As we give thanks for our daily bread
And our sound night’s sleep in a comfortable bed
Let us think of others with little to eat
And nowhere called home to rest their feet
For well filled plate and brimming cup
And freedom from the washing up
We thank you Lord
We offer humble thanks O Lord
For this another festive board
And may the gratitude we owe
In kindness to others show
Good health to all who share this fayre
Good health to Speaker and the Chair
Good health to Club beyond compare
Good health good Lord our heartfelt prayer
May each one of us according to his own belief
Give thanks for this food and the opportunity Probus affords
To serve our fellow men
Before we raise our knives and forks
And listen to the popping corks
Help us Lord to think and pray
For those who will not eat today
Here Zegen dese spijzen
[Translation – God bless this food]
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