Commontide

Preparation for Personal Prayer

Holy Spirit, breath of God and fire of love, I cannot pray without your aid: Kindle in me the fire of your love, and illumine me with your light; that with a steadfast will and holy thoughts I may approach the Father in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who reigns with you and the Father in eternal union. Amen.

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Prayers

Thanksgiving Day

Most merciful Father, we humbly thank you for all your gifts so freely bestowed upon us: for life and health and safety, for strength to work and leisure to rest, for all that is beautiful in creation and in human life; but above all we thank you for our spiritual mercies in Christ Jesus our Lord; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 637

Proper Preface

Preface of Rogation Days or Thanksgiving Day

Because the wonders of your Creation reflect your goodness and beauty; and your gifts of sun and rain, seed-time and harvest, manifest your constant love and care for all that you have made.

Provenance

Australian 1978

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer of generous enumeration, naming the gifts of daily life before climbing to the "spiritual mercies" of Christ. It first appears as "Another General Thanksgiving" in An Australian Prayer Book (1978) and is carried, with a Trinitarian close, into the ACNA BCP 2019.