Thursday, November 15, 2007

Thanksgiving Day Prayer: Preface of Thanksgiving Day

Father, all-powerful and ever-living God,
we do well always and everywhere to give You thanks,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

We acknowledge You as the Lord of all nations,
the Creator of land, and sea, and sky,
the Source of the wonders of nature and salvation.
Through Your Word You called all things into being,
that You might bestow on us Your love
reflected in the vastness of the universe
and the bounty of this earth.

You placed creation in our care,
yet You alone sustain all life with the gentle dew of Your Word
and the life-giving breath of the Spirit.
Your gifts of nature have not exhausted Your goodness,
for the fullness of Your love is revealed in the sending of Your Son
and the imparting of the Spirit.

Our hearts are moved to thankful praise,
and so we join the choirs of angels and saints
in proclaiming Your glory as we sing:

Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.

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