Come, ye thankful people...

I am just going to post a prayer today and enjoy Thanksgiving with my family. I hope you are able to do do the same.

This prayer was prepared with the blessing of Saint Tikhon of Moscow in 1901.

Come, ye thankful people, and let us raise a hymn of grateful praise to God, our Benefactor and Creator, the bounteous source of all our blessings, the riches of our earthly life, and the glory of the world to come, for in His great mercy and love for us His children, He has granted us salvation.

Come, ye thankful people, and let us praise the Father, who in His goodness created heaven and earth, and all that is in them, endowing us His creatures, with reason to worship Him, who in His great mercy and love for us His children. has granted us salvation.

Come, ye thankful people, and let us praise the only-begotten Son, who for our sakes did clothe Himself in mortal nature, deigning to suffer and die for us, trampling down death and raising us with Himself, who in His great mercy and love for us His children, has granted us salvation.

Come, ye thankful people, and let us praise the Holy Spirit, who descended upon the Apostles, making them fishers of men, through whom the earth has received, the knowledge of the Holy Trinity, who in His great mercy and love for us His children, has granted us salvation.

Glory to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen

Come, ye thankful people, and let us raise a hymn of grateful praise to God, our Benefactor and Creator, the bounteous source of all our blessings, the riches of our earthly life, and the glory of the world to come, for in His great mercy and love for us His children, He has granted us salvation.

More information about this Thanksgiving service can be found at the following links:
Vespers Service for Thanksgiving

Matins Service for Thanksgiving

Divine Liturgy Prayers for Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING