page_title: Trinity College, Cambridge
section_title: College Grace
hierarchical_section_title: Trinity College, Cambridge / Traditions / College Grace
caption_attribution_description: Trinity Great Hall
context_page_description: Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The college was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. With around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 180 fellows, it is the largest college in either of the Oxbridge universities by number of undergraduates. In terms of total student numbers, it is second only to Homerton College, Cambridge.
  Members of Trinity have won 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 116 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge. Five Fields Medals in mathematics have been won by members of the college and one Abel Prize has been won.
  Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers, physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and Michael Atiyah, the poets Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson, historians Lord Macaulay, G. M. Trevelyan and E.H. Carr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
context_section_description: Each evening before dinner, grace is recited by the senior fellow presiding, as follows:
  Benedic, Domine, nos et dona tua, (Bless us, Lord, and these gifts)
  quae de largitate tua sumus sumpturi, (which, through your generosity, we are about to receive)
  et concede, ut illis salubriter nutriti (and grant that we, wholesomely nourished by them,)
  tibi debitum obsequium praestare valeamus, (may be able to offer you the service we owe)
  per Christum Dominum nostrum. (through Christ our Lord)
  If both of the two high tables are in use then the following antiphonal formula is prefixed to the main grace:
  A. Oculi omnium in te sperant Domine: (The eyes of all are on you, Lord)
  B. Et tu das escam illis in tempore. (and you give them their food, in due time.)
  A. Aperis tu manum tuam, (You open your hand)
  B. Et imples omne animal benedictione. (and bestow upon all living things your blessing.) 
  Following the meal, the simple formula Benedicto benedicatur is pronounced.
caption: The High Table is at the far end of the dining hall under the portrait of Henry VIII
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