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.
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.
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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.