Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
Apostleship of Prayer

  Now Thank We all Our God
(Words by Martin Rinkart translated from German to English
 Catherine Winkworth, Music Cruger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica,
harmony  Felix Mendelssohn)
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Now thank we all our God,
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom this world rejoices;
who from our mothers’ arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us;
and keep us still in grace,
and guide us when perplexed;
and free us from all ills,
in this world and the next.

All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given:
the Son, and him who reigns
with them in highest heaven;
the one eternal God,
whom earth and heaven adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.

In Gratitude

Thank you, Father, for having created us and given us to each other in the human family. Thank you for being with us in all our joys and sorrows, for your comfort in our sadness, your companionship in our loneliness. Thank you for yesterday, today, tomorrow and for the whole of our lives. Thank you for friends, for health and for grace. May we live this and every day conscious of all that has been given to us. (From The Catholic Prayer Book compiled by Msgr. Michael Buckley}


Blessings and Peace from Lynn's Timeless Treasures

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Art

The First Thanksgiving by Jean Luis Gerome Ferris

The First Thanksgiving by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe