Father all-powerful, Your gifts of love are countless and Your goodness infinite. On Thanksgiving Day we come before You with gratitude for Your kindness: open our hearts to concern for our fellow men and women, so that we may share Your gifts in loving service.
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.
Amen.
Father, all of Creation rightly owes you thanks and praise. Your justice, love and mercy abound. We thank you this day for all that you have given us:
For the Passion and Death of your Divine Son, we thank you Father, through the Cross, He redeemed the world.
For the Church, we thank you Father, it is our beacon for salvation.
For the martyrs and saints who give testimony to your Son, we thank you Father, their witness to your Son is our inheritance.
For our loved ones and friends who have died and gone before us, we thank you Father, their love abides with us forever.
For loving spouses, we thank you Father, together we seek you.
For the gift of children, we thank you Father, they are your precious gifts to us and to the world.
For the gift of our families, loved ones and good friends, we thank you Father, Through them we see the reflection of your Son.
For jobs, our homes and all that we have, we thank you Father, give us only that which we need, as we seek Your Kingdom.
For the bounty we are about to eat, we thank you through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
We give thanks for all your benefits,
almighty God,
who lives and reigns forever.
May the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God,
rest in peace.
Amen.
Loving Father, we praise you For all the gifts you give us: For life and health, For faith and love, And for this meal we have shared together.
Father, we thank you Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Thank you Father, for your gifts: help us to love you more.
Amen.
Heavenly Father, we thank thee for the most wondrous election of our new Holy Father, Pope N.
Now elected, we humbly beseech you Lord, to stand with and guide Holy Father, Pope N. during this great time of trial and tribulation for the Holy Church.
We know you have chosen N. because he is the right man to shepherd us through the great darkness which confronts your faithful.
May he protect us from the evils of secularism, atheism, and consumerism.
May he guide us as we fight against the evils of abortion, corruption, and violence.
May he renew our faith.
May he remind us of the importance of the Fundamental Right to Life which all humans enjoy.
May his reign be both long and just, his leadership so divinely inspired as to live in legend.
We thank you Lord, for our new Holy Father, we rejoice at his elevation and at the works of thy hand through which all good things come.
Amen
(Marshall Connolly)
Father in Heaven, Creator of all and source of all goodness and love, please look kindly upon us and receive our heartfelt gratitude in this time of giving thanks.
Thank you for all the graces and blessings You have bestowed upon us, spiritual and temporal: our faith and religious heritage, our food and shelter, our health, the loves we have for one another, our family and friends.
Dear Father, in Your infinite generosity, please grant us continued graces and blessing throughout the coming year.
This we ask in the Name of Jesus, Your Son and our Brother.
Amen.
Dear Lord:
Today we give thanks For our many blessings As we pray for those in need.
We give thanks For our family and friends As we pray for those who are lonely.
We give thanks for our freedoms As we pray for those who are oppressed.
We give thanks for our good health As we pray for those who are ill.
We give thanks for our comfort and prosperity As we share our blessings with others.
On this day of Thanksgiving, May the love of God enfold us, The peace of God dwell within us And the joy of God uplift us.
Amen.
O wondrous Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, who, in thy brief earthly life, didst become a mirror of angelic purity, of courageous love and of whole-hearted surrender to Almighty God, now that thou art enjoying the reward of thy virtues, turn thine eyes of mercy upon us who trust in thee. Obtain for us the grace to keep our hearts and minds pure and clean like unto thine, and to detest in all sincerity whatever might tarnish ever so slightly the luster of a virtue so sublime, a virtue that endears us to they heavenly Bridegroom.
Ah, dear Saint, grant us to feel in every need the power of thy intercession; give us comfort in all the bitterness of this life and especially at its latter end, that we may be worthy to share eternal happiness with thee in paradise.
Amen.
V. Pray for us, O blessed Theresa,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY
O Lord, who has said: “Unless you become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven”; grant us, we beseech Thee, so to walk in the footsteps of thy blessed Virgin Theresa with a humble and single heart, that we may attain to everlasting rewards: Who livest and reignest world without end.
Amen.
O loving and compassionate Saint, deign to comfort our Russian brethren, the victims of a long and cruel persecution of the Christian name; obtain for them perseverance in the faith, progress in the love of God and of their neighbor, and in confidence toward the most holy Mother of God; prepare for them holy priests who shall make reparation for the blasphemies and sacrileges committed against the holy Eucharist; grant that angelic purity, especially in the young, and every Christian virtue may once more flourish amongst them, to the end that this noble people, being delivered from all slavery and returning freely to the one fold entrusted by the loving Heart of the Risen Christ to Saint Peter and his successors, may at length taste the joy of glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit in the fellowship of the holy Catholic Church.
Amen.
(An indulgence of 300 days. A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions if this prayer is said devoutly every day for a month. –S. P. Ap., Aug. 19, 1929. Imprimatur Most Rev. Geo. W. Ahr, Bishop of Trenton)
