Grace before meals is almost certainly the most frequently performed Christian rite and it is nearly absent from descriptions of the religion. Ten seconds, standing or seated, often in households where nothing else religious happens all week. Orthodox families use the Our Father; many Protestant households improvise; Lutherans have Luther's table blessing by heart. Sociologists of religion pay it attention because it turns out to predict identification and transmission better than attendance does — it happens in the house, in front of children, without an audience. It also carries the theological weight of the whole tradition's attitude to material things: the food is received rather than merely acquired, which is the same move the eucharist makes with bread and wine.