A mealtime thanksgiving for a guest and the richness of human fellowship.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
OUR Father, we rejoice in the guest who sits at meat with us, for our food is the more welcome because he shares it, and our home the dearer because it shelters him. Grant that in the happy exchange of thought and affection we may realize anew that all our gladness comes from the simple fellowship of our human kind, and that we are rich as long as we are loved.