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•Great Thanksgiving

•Leader: The Lord be with you.

•People: And also with you.

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•Lift up your hearts.

•We lift them up to the Lord.

•Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

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•It is right to give our thanks and praise.

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•It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you,

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•Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

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•You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.

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•When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.

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•You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us through your prophets, who looked for that day

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• when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,

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• when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

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•And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

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•Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

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•Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

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•Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.

•Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,

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• to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,

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• to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

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• and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people.

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•He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners.

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•By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your Church,

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• delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.

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•At his ascension you exalted him to sit and reign with you at your right hand.

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•On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread,

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• gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:

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•"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.

•Do this in remembrance of me."

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•When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:

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•"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,

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• poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

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•Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

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•And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,

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• we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving

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• as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,

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•as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

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•Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

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•Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine.

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•Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,

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• that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

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•By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,

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• until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.

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•Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,

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• all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and for ever.

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