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Before Lunch Grace: We thank you, heavenly Father, for meat and wine and veg for colleagues who are leaving, Commando Logistic Reg- -iment, 24 Commando En-gin-eers or 22 who've given us so much here, and move to pastures new. May lasting memories keep us, in friendship close and strong pray make your richest blessings, to them and us lifelong! After Lunch Grace: We Joiners now look forward, sustained by food and wine to hearing all the dirt dished, in manner true and fine. With thanks for those who've served us, and those who've cooked our lunch we're fortified and strengthened - 'tis good, for here's the crunch: for my prayer's yours on Sundays, for then 'tis me who preaches we join together pleading, O Lord - grant us short speeches! |
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Before Dinner Grace: As dawn comes daily in the East, Give grateful hearts Lord, for this feast, To give you thanks for food and wine, And those who serve us as we dine. As gentle warm winds blow from south, So may the words that pass our mouth, be generous, helpful, caring, kind, so each neighbour becomes a friend. The brilliant white snow in the North, shows us each Service person's worth: Though homeless, workless, nonetheless Through Compass may their lives we bless. Now as the sun sets in the west, Remind us all to give our best, For Project Compass, and for our Lord, That many more lives may be restored. After Dinner Grace: We thank you, Lord, for food and wine, To strengthen heart and soul and mind, And now at auction time we pray, That generous bids will mark this day, Protect us from each twitch and tic, That might make us ourselves to kick, But from our surplus let us give, That Compass may let others live. |
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originally written for the Squadron Dinner Night, March 2009 Before Dinner Grace: This grace celebrates Admiral 'ABC' Cuningham's ships. Doris, Hannibal, Diadem Implacable as we sit down to eat don’t let our talk be full of bull; Locust, Torpedo Boat, Scorpion and Termagant: grant us, Lord, thankful hearts: may our words be truly meant; Seafire, Lochinvar, Rodney and Pembroke: give courtesy and gratitude to every steward; every cook. Coventry, the mighty Hood, and last HMS Warspite: command us, Lord, in act and word, on this, our Squadron Dinner Night. Amen. After Dinner Grace: Cuningham was a great fighting Commander: he also undertook the task - he said the harder task - of piloting the Royal Navy through the transition to peace. The battles of Taranto, Matapan and Crete built our tradition once: now, strengthened by our meat we thank you, Lord, for those who’ve cooked and those who served; as speeches now await us, we pray our hearts be stirred: grant love of justice, Lord; power used to help the poor, Like Cunningham: to build for peace, not just for war. Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: We thank you Father as we sit to dine You give us happiness, and food and wine And as we sit to eat this birthday meal We pray our broken hurting world you’d heal Keep safe from rock and tempest, fire and foe, Those now deployed, and those who soon will go Our Father, bless we pray each Royal Marine Our families, friends and colleagues, and our Queen. Amen. After Dinner Grace: Thanks Lord for starter, main course and the pud The service, wine and music - all's been good We've talked the years since 1664 Remembered laughter, sadness, peace and war Now grant Commando Ethos that we might Be strengthened for our final work this night The evening's not yet done - new heights it reaches, Keep us now wakeful, Lord, it's time for speeches! Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: On this farewell to Garry Robison, Thanks Lord for meat: it’s pork (not venison), We thank you, over Parma ham, That the next CG will be this man. Thanks also Lord for courgettes ridged And for his wife, the lovely Bridget. Thanks for our staff - not one’s a dud And thanks for every Jersey spud. For cabbage parcels on plates piled, For croutons, cheese and mushrooms wild, On ladies night, with fruits exotic, Thank you too for thoughts erotic. Enough! No more of this poor ballad, Let’s turn to, with smoked salmon salad. Amen. After Dinner Grace: So thanks Lord that we’ve been well fed, And drunk our fill of Oakwood Red We’ve also has some Oakwood white To lubricate this ladies night (I haven’t drunk much sparkling water Though truth to tell I should have ought’to) Now, as we drink Skeffington Port We pray, Lord, keep the speeches short! Amen. Ladies Night, 26 May 2006 CTCRM Officers Mess |
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Before Dinner Grace: Through Adam’s sin cursed was the ground By sweat the farmer works year round We eat the plants he grows, from birth until we die and rest in earth Our lives are fields - if sown with sin Destruction then flows from within to please the Spirit then should be our aim, to reap eternal life again O Lord - the Common, Moor and Sea All give to you testimony So thank you for this news so good For joyful hearts, and friends and food Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: Be present at our table, Lord! Be here and everywhere adored. Your mercies bless, and grant that we May feast in Paradise with Thee! Amen. After Dinner Grace: For all that is past, For all that lies ahead, For Rodney, For all friends, And for the food we have eaten, We give you thanks, Our gracious heavenly father. Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: In faith Lord Nelson prayed for victory For righteous conduct and humanity And though his moral life was somewhat frail He led our fleet of seven and twenty sail To vict'ry, on Trafalgar's glorious day And so in his own words our grace we pray: God save the Queen Bless our victuals Make us thankful. Amen. After Dinner Grace, in HMS ALBION: As we thank our Heavenly Father for our meal, and for those who have prepared and served it, we thank God too for Lord Nelson, whose final battle expressed our ship’s motto (which I know I need not remind anyone here of): Fortiler, Fideliter, Feliciter - Boldly, Faithfully, Successfully. So, an Albion Grace: Let us pray: To do what’s right, when others’ feet get cold We pray for courage strong to make us Bold To Faithf’lly serve our Sailors and Marines Our Captain, and each other, and our Queen And so that we our hurting world may bless To fight for Peace and Justice with Success Amen. Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: Around this happy table may no evil ever come, but health and peace and happiness make up our daily sum. Amen. After Dinner Grace: Heavenly Father, thank you for the food we've eaten and for those who've served and entertained us. Please keep us ever grateful for all you give us, and ever mindful of the needs of others. Amen. |
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After Dinner Grace: We've ate and drank till we could take no more We've kept the old tradition of the Corps With thanks to God that we've been fed and wined And thanks to all who've served us as we dined Now though on Sundays I'm the one who preaches, Yet on this Mess Night all our prayer's: "Short Speeches!" Amen. |
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For rabbits young and rabbits old for rabbits hot and rabbits cold for rabbits tender; rabbits tough we thank you Lord, there's food enough. For lovers young and lovers old, for lovers hot and lovers cold for loving tender; loving rough we thank you, Lord, there's love enough. Amen. |
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Thanks Father for this meal of many ends; to eat our food with colleagues and with friends. Through these good victuals strengthen each YO for all Eye-Opener brings - rain, fog or snow. We thank you for our staff who, as we dine, serve us our hoofing scran, and pour our wine. So thank you Father for each sip and bite and may we all enjoy dinner tonight. Amen |
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Before Dinner Grace: For the meal we have eaten, and for those who have prepared and served it; for the company we have enjoyed, and for friendships strengthened or renewed; for Paddy George and Ian Gardiner, and for the privilege of working alongside them, we give you thanks, good Lord, and may we ever remain thankful, Lord Jesus Christ, for the gift of each day. Amen. After Dinner Grace: As we have savoured this meal, may we savour every moment of our lives, and the remembrance of this evening. Amen. |
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Heavenly Father, whose son Jesus Christ established his kingdom on the cross with the words 'It is finished', make us: Brave as he who turned his face to Jerusalem and death; Energetic as he who strove for peace on earth; Angry with injustice, as he who drove the cheats form the Temple; Grateful to him who gave his life that we might live for ever; Loving as he who loved even his enemies, to turn them into his friends. And grant that we may do all these things to a finish, and so enter our Eternal home with him in heaven. Amen. |
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Before Dinner Grace: Father in heaven, you made the grain and the grape, that we might not only be fed but also be made joyful: for this food and drink, and for those who prepare and serve it, we thank you. Amen. An acrostic After Dinner Grace: For Our Repast, Thank You. |
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Before Dinner Grace: Helmsman: Be the ship blest Crew: By God the Father blest Helmsman: Be the ship blest Crew: By God the Son blest Helmsman: Be the ship blest Crew: By God the Spirit blest Chaplain: God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit Blessing give best: Be the ship blest. Being of all, the King of all, Spirit of all, Over our head eternal fall; Near to us, sure, for evermore. Amen |
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Before Dinner Grace: "Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred." Grant, Holy Father, that our eating may be sanctified by love for one another and for you; Amen |
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Before Dinner Grace: From 28 October, in 1664, The Royal Marines have served their land in peace as well in war In River Plate, Gallipoli, Gibraltar in its might At Bunker Hill, Zeebrugge, Trafalgar’s deadly fight The Falkland Islands, Walcheren, Belleisle and Normandy Have writ in blood and sacrifice our Corp’s bold history So give us thankful hearts, we pray, not just for food and wine, but for the years we celebrate together as we dine. May all the dits we spin together Burnish ethos bright That our Corps is further strengthened through our Birthday meal tonight. Amen. After Dinner Grace: We thank you Lord for starter, for main course and the pud The service, wine and music – each one has all been good We've talked the Corps’ proud history: Helmand; Lashkar Gah Remembered friends and colleagues, laughter, sadness, peace and war Now grant Commando Spirit, to each one that we might Be strengthened even further for our final work this night The evening's not yet done – No no! New heights it reaches, Keep us alert and wakeful, Lord! It’s come! It's time for speeches! Amen. |
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