Happy Thanksgiving: Its Sacred Meaning

How great, O God, is Your love for each of us

And how deep and wide is Your mercy.

Pleased with each of Your children, O God, You pour out Your love for us from the cross, in every Eucharist, in the daily Scriptures and in the each event of our lives.
Pleased with each of Your children, O God, You take up a dwelling place in our hearts.

Yielding to the demands for reconciliation of humankind to Your Father, Jesus, You surrender to the Father’s will even to death on the cross. 

Thank you, Lord, for your mercy toward everyone in the world, toward each of my family members, all of my fellow religious, all in the church, rich and poor alike, all who believe and all who don’t.

Halleluiah to You, O God: Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier,

And glory, honor and praise to Your holy Name!

Never let us forget to say “Thanks, God, for Your eternal Presence in the world, in our personal, familial, and civic lives.

Kindness flows from You into our lives every moment of every day.  Thank you as You wait for us to acknowledge Your goodness at work within our lives.

Salvation is guaranteed by You, O Jesus, who died on the cross for us. This guarantee goes to all who believe and repent, no matter how deeply we may have fallen into sin, getting trapped by Satan’s lies. Thank you!

Give thanks for a God who loves us to the point of dying on the cross to procure our salvation. Thank you, Lord.
Instead of condemnation, Jesus, You come to save us from evil, from Satan’s snares.

Vividly enduring a torturous death, Jesus, You humbly offer Your life as a sign of God’s unquestionable love for us.

In this torturous handling by ruthless executioners, Jesus, You  prayed: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” You pray this over and over again when any one of us is hurting another person or oneself.

Never doubt God’s love.  If it were necessary to die again (and it isn’t), Jesus, You would do so to procure our deliverance. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Give thanks: at every Eucharist, You, O Lord, give thanks to the Father for His love for us and His plan for our salvation!