{"id":2538,"date":"2012-03-25T09:23:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?page_id=2538"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:38:47","slug":"blessing-for-beer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/prayers-and-meditations\/blessing-for-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing for Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">B<\/span>ecause we&#8217;re Catholic, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p><i>From the 1962 Rituale Romanum<\/i><\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; width: 48%; text-align: justify;\">\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">V.<\/font> Our help is in the name of the Lord.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> Who made heaven and earth.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">V.<\/font> The Lord be with you.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> And with your spirit.<\/TD><\/p>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; width: 48%; text-align: justify;\">\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">V.<\/font> Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> Qui fecit c\u00e6lum et terram.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">V.<\/font> Dominus vobiscum.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> Et cum spiritu tuo.<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><\/p>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; width: 48%; text-align: justify;\"><font color=\"#AF0000\">Let us pray.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Bless, <font color=\"#AF0000\">+<\/font> O Lord, this creature beer, which thou hast deigned to produce from the fat of grain: that it may be a salutary remedy to the human race, and grant through the invocation of thy holy name; that, whoever shall drink it, may gain health in body and peace in soul. <\/p>\n<p>Through Christ our Lord. <\/TD><\/p>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; width: 48%; text-align: justify;\"><font color=\"#AF0000\">Oremus.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Benedic, <font color=\"#AF0000\">+<\/font> Domine, creaturam istam cerevisi\u00e6, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi, et pr\u00e6sta per invocationem nominis tui sancti; ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corpus et anim\u00e6 tutelam percipiant. <\/p>\n<p>Per Christum Dominum nostrum. <\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> Amen.<\/TD><br \/>\n<TD align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><font color=\"#AF0000\">R.<\/font> Amen.<\/TD><\/TR><\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2547\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/prayers-and-meditations\/blessing-for-beer\/ratzingerbeer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg?fit=576%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,443\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RatzingerBeer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg?fit=576%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg?resize=576%2C443\" alt=\"\" title=\"RatzingerBeer\" width=\"576\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/RatzingerBeer.jpeg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we&#8217;re Catholic, that&#8217;s why. From the 1962 Rituale Romanum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":931,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1aGBK-EW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30563,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/prayers-and-meditations\/missale-romanum\/","url_meta":{"origin":2538,"position":0},"title":"Missale Romanum","author":"Thom","date":"12 December 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a series of short articles that I wrote \/ adapted \/ edited for my parish bulletin in advance of the publication of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal in English. 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