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Post by offramp on Nov 6, 2019 9:09:58 GMT
"Brethren. We will now sing grace."
The Grace that is then sung at Festive Boards is not normally reproduced in any ritual book. It has to be learnt, bit by bit, by new initiates over the course of several meetings.
20 years ago, the late and great W Bro Ivan Champion, who saw in me the germ of true Masonic greatness, decided to give me some advice about this Grace.
"It is not, as many believe, To Thee alone the honour and glory. It is To Thee alone be honour, glory."
It is similar, but not the same.
Since then that is how I have sung the grace, even though I have been aware that I am the only one singing from that particular hymn-sheet.
The grace is also used by many of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The words can be seen here:
www.liverycompanies.info/fellowship-of-clerks/dinners/music.pdf
So Ivan Champion (and I) have been proved right, and every other Freemason in the world has been proved wrong. Does that make me feel any better?
Yes.
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