4. When to Use the Short & Extended Versions

✔ Short Version – Ideal for individuals, families, and daily meals.

✔ Extended Version – Used in monasteries, religious communities, and formal gatherings.

📌 Traditional Catholic Practice:

• Make the Sign of the Cross before beginning Agimus tibi gratias...

• Priests or heads of the table often lead the final blessing.

5. Lesson Summary

This lesson teaches the traditional Grace After Meals (Gratiárum Actio) in Latin — the authentic way Catholics have always given thanks after eating. It fosters gratitude to God and loyalty to the timeless traditions of the true Church, untainted by the errors of the post-Vatican II counterfeit sect. Mastering these prayers helps preserve the Faith in a time of widespread apostasy.

7. Final Thought – Why Does This Prayer Matter?

In today’s world, where the true Catholic Faith has been obscured by the errors of the Second Vatican Council and a counterfeit hierarchy now occupies the structures once held by the Church, even the smallest acts of fidelity become powerful testimonies. The traditional Grace After Meals is not merely a pious habit — it is a concrete expression of Catholic identity, gratitude, and submission to God as He has been worshiped throughout the ages.

When we pray in Latin — the sacred language of the Church — and use prayers approved and sanctified by countless saints, we consciously reject the novelties, banalities, and desacralization introduced by the modernist Vatican II sect. These new rites and altered devotions were designed to please man, not God. The true Catholic resists this apostasy by adhering to what the Church always taught and practiced before the revolution of the 1960s.

Giving thanks after meals may seem a small thing, but it is a link in the great chain of Catholic Tradition — a tradition that is divine in origin and unchangeable in essence. In preserving and practicing these prayers, we preserve the Faith itself. We remind ourselves, our children, and our neighbors that God is the source of all good, and that only through the true Church — now eclipsed but indefectible — can we attain eternal salvation.

In a time when even many who call themselves Catholic no longer believe in the Real Presence, no longer attend the true Mass, and no longer submit to the unchanging Magisterium of the pre-Vatican II popes, fidelity to the small practices becomes an act of resistance and reparation. By praying the traditional Grace After Meals, we not only thank God for our food — we also publicly reject the apostasy of the modern church and recommit ourselves to the Faith of our fathers, the Faith of all time.

“Agimus tibi gratias, omnipotens Deus, pro universis beneficiis tuis, qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.”