WE THANK YOU, O LORD

Dear Friends,

We wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

In celebration of this beautiful holiday, we would like to share with you the following Thanksgiving Day blessing and litany that you might like to pray with your family and loved ones.

 Most merciful Father,

your gifts of love are countless

and your goodness infinite.

On this Thanksgiving Day we come before you

with gratitude for your kindness:

open our hearts to concern for others

so that we may share your gifts

of loving service with all your people.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

 

Litany of Thanksgiving

Response: We thank you, O Lord.

This is a day to thank God for all his many blessings in our lives. With gratitude we now say:

For the love of God, for faith, family, and friends: R/

For joys, successes, achievements, and accomplishments: R/

For health, safety, work, and rest: R/

For struggles, sorrows, trials, and sufferings: R/

For our jobs, for those who support us, for our education, and for the chance to serve: R/

For our gifts, talents, and abilities, for honors, for strength and energy: R/

For our homes, for food, warmth, and shelter, for all the things that have made us happy: R/

For our hobbies and pets, for happy memories, for our favorite things, for leisure and relaxation: R/

For our nation, for freedom and peace, for teachers, leaders, and those who give us good example: R/

For the ability to say "I'm sorry," for the grace of repentance, for the forgiveness of others, for the generosity of others: R/

For good advice, for financial security, for the trust others put in us, for tenderness, understanding, and compassion: R/

For kindness, goodness, joy, and laughter, for the times we have helped others or made them happy: R/

For all the wonders of creation, for beauty, music, sports, and art, for new opportunities and second chances: R/

For failures and rejection, for all the ways we have grown up and become better people: R/

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,

is now, and will be for ever.

Amen.*  

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*Adapted from "A Thanksgiving Day Grace"

in Blessing Prayers: Devotions for Growing in Faith

by Fr. Peter John Cameron, o.p.