Thanksgiving Day
O PRAISE the LORD, for it is a good
thing to sing praises unto our God; * yea, a joyful and pleasant thing it is to
be thankful.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, * and
gather together the outcasts of Israel.
He healeth those that are broken in
heart, * and giveth medicine to heal their sickness.
O sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving;
* sing praises upon the harp unto our God:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and
prepareth rain for the earth; * and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains,
and herb for the use of men;
Who giveth fodder unto the cattle, * and
feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; * praise
thy God, O Sion.
For he hath made fast the bars of thy
gates, * and hath blessed thy children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders, * and
filleth thee with the flour of wheat.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
* and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.
The Collect.
O MOST
merciful Father, who hast blessed the labours of the husbandman in the returns
of the fruits of the earth; We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty;
beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us, that our land may still
yield her increase, to thy glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
The Epistle. St. James i. 16.
DO not err, my beloved brethren. Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father
of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own
will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not
the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in
a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth
what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be
religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is
this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.
The Gospel. St. Matthew vi. 25.
JESUS said, Be not anxious for your
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? Behold
the fowls of the air: forthey sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into
barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
And why are ye anxious for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God
so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of
little faith? Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall
we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do
the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be
not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
A Thanksgiving Litany: http://mphilliber.blogspot.com/2014/11/prayer-of-thanksgiving-litany.html
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