Prayer of Thanksgiving

Here’s a Eucharistic preface for the first Sunday of Advent (or the second Sunday of Epiphany, Year A). It was written by Nathan Nettleton, and posted on his Laughingbird.net website.

Prayer at the Table

Let us lift up our hearts.
........We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
........It is right to give our thanks and praise.

It is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise, O God,
for even when heaven and earth pass away,
your words will never pass away.

Like a potter you created the earth,
and we are all the work of your hands.
At your presence even the mountains quake,
and yet to your people who wait for you,
you are the light, revealing our salvation.

In your child, Jesus, you have come among us,
teaching us to live in readiness for your reign.
Though he was killed, you raised him to life,
restoring to us the light of your presence,
and enriching us in every way
so that we are not lacking in your gifts
as we await the day
when he comes on the clouds in glory
and gathers his faithful ones from the ends of the earth;
all who do right and remember you in their ways.

Therefore with .....

~ copyright © 2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net