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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
That sounds really weird. I'm glad we don't do that. No offence but it would freak me out to see a bunch of people singing a prayer in the dining hall.
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In my experience, a fraternity's or sorority's grace would be used for formal dinners, meals in a house or other occasions where there is some privacy. (In the History Channel's "Frat Boys," the Phi Delt chapter was shown reciting what appeared to be a fraternity grace before a meal in the chapter house dining room.) It would be unusual, in my experience, to sing it in a crowded dining hall.
We don't have an "official" (as in officially adopted for all time), grace, but all of our songbooks have contained a prayer entitled "Sinfonian Grace" -- there have been three or four prayers with this name over the years. The one with which I am most familiar (although I am not sure that it is the grace in the current songbook) is:
Lord of love and law and light,
God who gave us sound and sight,
Hear our hearts in harmony
Singing grateful thanks to Thee.
Bless the bread upon the board,
Bless our brotherhood, O Lord;
Bless Sinfonia's noble aim,
As in song we bless Thy Name. Amen.
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