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Thanksgiving Day Celebrated in the United States27 November
2008
The First Thanksgiving, painting by
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (18631930)
In the USA, today is Thanksgiving Day
(Optional Memorial)
(Opening prayer)
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 trough our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives
and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
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Readings for Mass
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of
God bestowed on you in
Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with
all discourse and allknowledge, as the testimony 3 to Christ was
confirmed among you, so that you are not
lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of
our Lord Jesus Christ.God is faithful, and by him you were called
to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our
Lord.
Psalms 113 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Hallelujah! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the name of
the LORD.
Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forever.
From the rising of the sun to its setting let the name of the
LORD be praised.
High above all nations is the LORD; above the heavens God's
glory.
Who is like the LORD, our God enthroned on high,
looking down on heaven and earth?
The LORD raises the needy from the dust, lifts the poor from the
ash heap,Seats them with princes, the princes of the people,
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to saint Luke 17:11-19
As he continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through
Samaria and Galilee.
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met (him). They stood
at a distance from him and
raised their voice, saying, "Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!"And
when he saw them, he said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." As
they were
going they were cleansed.
And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned,
glorifying God in a loud voice;and he fell at the feet of Jesus and
thanked him. He was a Samaritan.
Jesus said in reply, "Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where
are the other nine? Hasnone but this foreigner returned to give
thanks to God?"Then he said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith
has saved you."
Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
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Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and
Doctor of the ChurchDiscourse on Psalm 95
"Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at
hand"
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult before the Lord,
for he comes; he comes torule the earth (Ps 95[96], 12b-13). The
Lord has already come once and he will come
again. The first time he came on the clouds (Mt 26,64) in his
Church. What are theclouds that bore him? Apostles, preachers...
The first time he came borne by his preachers
and he filled all the earth. Let us not resist his first coming
if we would not dread the
second...
So what should the Christian do? Profit by this world but not
serve this world. And in
what does that consist? Own as though not owning. That is what
Saint Paul said:Brothers, the time is running out... From now on...
let those weeping act as not weeping,
those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning,
those using the world as not
using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing
away. I should like you to befree of anxieties (1Cor 7,29-32).
Anyone free from anxiety confidently awaits his Lord's
coming. For if we dread his coming do we love the Lord? My
brethren, aren't we
blushing about it? We love him and yet we dread his coming? Do
we truly love him or do
we not rather love our sins? Then let us hate our sins and love
the One who is to come...
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult before the Lord for
he has come a first time...
He has come a first time and he will return to judge the earth.
At that time he will find all
those who believed in his first coming full of joy.
