Does your family still have a traditional "Sunday dinner?" And does your faith play a role in it?

Question

We're not religious at all, yet every Sunday I set the table with the good China and a real cloth, gather the kids, and have an old fashioned 'sit down' family dinner. It's become a tradition, with fried chicken the usual dish.

What does your family serve?
Who gathers together at your table?
What role do your beliefs play?

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Answer 1

For me a traditional Sunday lunch was going to the pub at 12:00,being back home at 1:45 because my mother had dinner on the table at 2:00
We would have roast beef,yorkshire pudding and vegetables.The men would then clear the table and do the washing up,then everybody would sit in the lounge and have an afternoon nap.
Happy days.

Answer 2

No, we do the Saturday breakfast. It's our own little tradition.
I make homemade croissants or scones, omelets, or whatever strikes our fancy that week. Then we all sit down together. I'm just a breakfast girl I guess.
I telecommute so I can have more time for my children, who are still kinda young. So we have sit down dinner every night.
It's breakfast in our family that gets crazy- with getting the kids off to school, the hubby to work, and then starting my own work. Phew!
I'm non-Christian, though.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

My family does have a family dinner every sunday. There isnt any specific dish. We all gather at my parents house and have dinner. A lot of us still live close by.

It was my grandma that started this tradition and as she got older my mom took over.

Answer 5

Red Queen! Hi!,
Yes, Mom is cooking it as I type this. Roast Beef tonight.
Every night it's wash, pray, eat/talk, pray, brush teeth clean-up/dry dishes - every day for 48 years. I called during my Navy days after 6:20 because I knew family was eating 5:30 sharp.
Roman Catholic, (Mom grew up Protestant.) So my parents have both have lived like this since 1933. I can't tell if it's religious or just family tradition. (German on Dad's side; British on Mom's)
Oh, Mom gathers us: she yells "Dinner's ready, call Mike." and "Get the water." (Also her meals start at 5:30pm sharp, few excuses. lol.)

Answer 6

LOL we have chicken too as our usual Sunday dinner although ham and pot roast sometimes make their appearance. My husband, my two sons, and I sit down to supper daily but we make Sunday special. We ask the blessing before, say thanks after, and later we pray the Rosary. Tonight however is the first Sunday in Advent so we also lit the first Advent Candle in our wreath and said the prayers accompanying it along with singing "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
Peace Be With You,
Debra

Answer 7

Our family wasn't particularly that religious,,but my momma set a mean table on Sunday..simple love and just a gathering..never forget those times...Chicken and Bisquick bi-skits,,holy meal..

Answer 8

Yeah we do. We always have pasta and our entire family sits around the table and talk. I don;t think our beliefs have anything to do with it though.

Answer 9

We did when I was growing up, after church, but oddly enough, religion hardly played into it. We would be off and running on current events, science, homework, whatever my parents could do to stimulate our little minds.

And for that, I am grateful. Could not have asked for better, loving, caring parents.

Answer 10

My mother just loves to cook and get the family together--it's not religious at all