Before Eating
Preces Gertrudianae, compiled by Thomas Alder Pope, 1861Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | Preces Gertrudianae: Prayers of St Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of The Order of St. Benedict. |
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| Imprint | LONDON, BURNS AND LAMBERT, 1861 |
| Pages | pp. 12–13 |
| Scan | leaf 24, leaf 25 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- the souls in purgatory
Nicolaes Maes, Old Woman Saying Grace, about 1656. Rijksmuseum.
Our Lord said to St. Gertrude: He who takes care to eat and drink, &c. with the intention expressed in the following prayer, holds as it were a buckler before me, to defend me from the insults and injuries of the worldly.
O LORD Jesus, I take this food in that same love wherewith thou hast sanctified it, when in thy most holy Humanity thou didst deign to eat and to drink to the glory of God the Father, and for the salvation of the whole human race; beseeching thee that, in union with thy divine love, it may tend to the increase of glory, and salvation of all thine elect in heaven, on earth, or in purgatory.