Happy Thanksgiving!

The Collect for the day:

"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 through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

The readings for the day (taken from the New Authorized Version/Third Millennium Bible).
Click here for the readings at the USCCB.

Sirach 50:22-24
Now therefore bless ye the God of all, who alone doeth wondrous things every where, who exalteth our days from the womb, and dealeth with us according to His mercy. May He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever, that He would confirm His mercy with us, and deliver us at His time!


Psalm 138 (responsorial format given at above USCCB link)

A Psalm of David

I will praise Thee with my whole heart;
before the gods will I sing praise unto Thee.
I will worship toward Thy holy temple,
and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth,
for Thou hast magnified Thy word
above all Thy name.
In the day when I cried, Thou answered me,
and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

All the kings of the earth shall praise Thee, O LORD,
when they hear the words of Thy mouth.
Yea, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD,
for great is the glory of the LORD.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly,
but the proud He knoweth afar off.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
Thou wilt revive me;
Thou shalt stretch forth Thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies,
and Thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me;
Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever;
forsake not the works of Thine own hands.


I Corinthians 1:3-9
Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; that in every thing ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye fall behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.


Luke 1:11-19
And it came to pass as [Jesus] went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" And when He saw them, He said unto them, "Go, show yourselves unto the priests." And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? There are none found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." And He said unto him, "Arise; go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole."