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Share your blessings this Thanksgiving
Published: November 1, 2016
During this season of thanksgiving, we invite you to share your blessings with us. Did you know that in addition to prayer needs, our Prayer Book of Intentions can also receive prayers of thanksgiving for petitions answered? So, in addition to your prayer requests, we invite you to share with us how God has worked in your life this year. Submit your prayer of thanksgiving here.
"In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus." (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
As we gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving Nov. 24, we take part in a tradition that began in 1621 when Gov. Bradford of the Plymouth colony called for a day of public praise and prayer to celebrate the first harvest. This came after many setbacks and hardships had plagued the first settlers of the New World.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that in addition to prayers of petition and intercession, we can also offer prayers of blessing and adoration, praise and thanksgiving to God. (No. 2623-2649) During this season of thanksgiving, we invite you to share your blessings with us. Did you know that in addition to prayer needs, our Prayer Book of Intentions can also receive prayers of thanksgiving for petitions answered? So, in addition to your prayer requests, we invite you to share with us how God has worked in your life this year. Submit your prayer of thanksgiving here.
All are welcome to submit prayers to our Prayer Book of Intentions in English or Spanish. You have the option of posting anonymously or including your name and/or parish. All submissions are reviewed before being made public. Please allow up to three days for your submission to be posted.
These prayers are offered up at the noon Mass celebrated by Bishop Anthony B. Taylor on Wednesdays at St. John Catholic Center in Little Rock. Others are also invited to pray for these intentions in your parishes, schools or prayer groups. For more information, Contact Us.
Today we struggle with different hardships but we still turn to the same God to see us through difficult times. Like the first settlers, we invite you to join us in thanking God for his constant presence and love. The following prayer was taken from "Celebrating Faith: Year-round Activities for Catholic Families" and written by Mary Cronk Farrell.
