Author Topic: The Official Catholic Beer Blessing (Read 1423 times)

Cantarella · « **on:** October 29, 2013, 10:51:26 PM »

The Official Catholic Beer Blessing

One of the great things about being Catholic is that the Church has quite literally thought of everything at some point or another. Some inventive cleric even thought to include a beer blessing in the Rituale Romanum (my parish also has an annual wine blessing). Creation is good. Beer is good. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

Bless, + 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. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

In Latin:

V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit caelum et terram.

V. Dominus vobiscuм.
R. Et cuм spiritu tuo.

Oremus.

Bene+dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi: et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti, ut, quicuмque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corporis, et animae tutelam percipiant. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen

From: http://catholicgentleman.net/2013/10/29/the-official-catholic-beer-blessing/

claudel · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2013, 03:52:03 PM »

All well and good. Just so long as you understand that pronouncing this blessing over a keg of Budweiser is ipso facto blasphemous conduct that generates an immediate excommunication latae sententiae.

Also, absolution for this crime is reserved to the highest-ranking German-born prelate in the world. At least getting such absolution is easier now than it was when that prelate was the pope!

Matto · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2013, 03:55:32 PM »

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2013, 07:49:18 PM »

Quote from: claudel

All well and good. Just so long as you understand that pronouncing this blessing over a keg of Budweiser is ipso facto blasphemous conduct that generates an immediate excommunication latae sententiae.

Also, absolution for this crime is reserved to the highest-ranking German-born prelate in the world. At least getting such absolution is easier now than it was when that prelate was the pope!

Huh

LaramieHirsch · « **Reply #4 on:** November 16, 2013, 04:43:33 AM »

Does a priest do this blessing? Or do laymen? Such as when we pray before meals?

Sigismund · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2013, 10:30:15 PM »

Quote from: claudel

All well and good. Just so long as you understand that pronouncing this blessing over a keg of Budweiser is ipso facto blasphemous conduct that generates an immediate excommunication latae sententiae.

Also, absolution for this crime is reserved to the highest-ranking German-born prelate in the world. At least getting such absolution is easier now than it was when that prelate was the pope!

:smile:

Sigismund · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2013, 10:31:25 PM »

Quote from: LaramieHirsch

Does a priest do this blessing? Or do laymen? Such as when we pray before meals?

I don't see any harm in lay people saying this as a prayer. I don't think it would be a blessing though, in the same sense as it would be if done by a priest.

claudel · « **Reply #7 on:** November 17, 2013, 10:46:45 AM »

Quote from: Sigismund

Quote from: LaramieHirsch
Does a priest do this blessing? Or do laymen?

I don't see any harm in lay people saying this as a prayer. I don't think it would be a blessing though, in the same sense as it would be if done by a priest.

Just so. The downside of having a priest do a proper blessing is that if you have a nice stock of Pilsner Urquell or Paulaner Bock laid on, the priest probably won't be content with a single glass! So finding a priest who is teetotal would be the ideal situation.