Saying Grace

Come together and say Grace with your family or friends before each meal. This challenge is to help encourage families and parish groups to include a short time of prayer while gathering at the table to share a meal.

If you or your family don’t usually say Grace before or after meals, this could be a good time to begin. You can be as creative as you like in deciding how grace will be said. You could either use a formal Grace or you could take time to thank God for a blessing you  have received that day!

This is a particularly good one for children:

"Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you, God, for everything!"~Edith Rutter Leatham

To download the challenge click Saying Grace

Take a look at the Resource Sheet for more Graces to say with your family or group

Grace Resource Sheet

Try writing a Grace of your own and send it to challenge@livesimply.org.uk