Dr. Veith, Another great article, but I've always had concern when they updated the common table prayer a number of years ago. It used to be "and let Thy gifts to us be blessed" and "Thy" was changed to "these" to modernize the English. Unfortunately there is a big difference between "these" gifts and "thy gifts". "These" doesn't say where the gifts came from. The original German was "diese Deine Geben" (lit. these Your gifts). I know this is a minor point, but I thought it worth noting.