Thanksgiving Day
¶ Instead
of the Venite, the following shall be said or sung.
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;
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.
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