Preface for Mass for Thanksgiving Day, USA:

Father, we do well to join all creation, in heaven and on earth, in praising you, our mighty God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You made man to your own image and set him overa ll creation.  Once you chose a people and gave tehm a destiny and, when you brought them out of bondage to freedom, they carried with them the promise that all men would be blessed and all men could be free.

What the prophets pledged was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, your Son and our saving Lord.  It has come to pass in every generation for all men who have believed that Jesus by his death and resurrection gave them a new freedom in his Spirit.

It happened to our fathers, who came to this land as if out of the desert into a place of promise and hope.  It happens to us still, in our time, as you lead all men through your Church to the blessed vision of peace.

And so, with hearts full of love, we join the angels, today and every day of our lives, to sing your glory in a hymn of endless praise:

Holy, Holy, Holy…