Is anyone familiar with the following table grace? "Lord bless the food which now we take; And this we ask for Jesus' sake." This came down through the Brosius side of my family. I do not know whether it is originally an English prayer, or whether it might be a translation from High German or Pennsylvania Dutch. Several members of this Brosius branch were Lutheran ministers who studied at the seminary in Gettysburg in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and one of them might have introduced the prayer into the family. The most distinctive thing about this grace was the way we said it, everyone at the table speaking in unison, with no one in particular leading the prayer. Does anyone else remember saying grace in this way? Could it be a custom of Pennsylvania Dutch origin? Tim Shipe timothy-shipe@uiowa.edu