Blessed be God/Prayers Of Thanksgiving For Every Day Of The Week
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
For Sunday
MOST Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in deepest reverence we adore Thee and thank Thee for Thy infinite majesty and love. From our whole hearts we thank Thee for all the proofs of love Thou hast shown us from the beginning to this very hour, especially for the grace that we are privileged to love Thee. To-day we thank Thee for all the mysteries of our faith, especially for the mystery of the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who is the seal of our faith and the most sure anchor of our hope. Praise and thanksgiving be to Thee forever!
(Ind. of 300 days, once aday. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)
For Monday
O HOLY Ghost, personal Love and Goodness in the Godhead, Thou breathest upon us in streams the divine goodness through Thy graces and gifts. Eternal thanks be to Thee for the spiritual life Thou givest to us and preservest through the holy Sacraments. Although we do not deserve Thy love nor correspond with it, Thou ceasest not to bless and sanctify us. Therefore we thank Thee with the Father and the Son, and to-day especially for Thy unfathomable mercy, which is above all Thy works. Praise and thanksgiving be to Thee forever!
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pus X. May 6, 1909.)
For Tuesday
HEAVENLY Father, Thou hast in kindness taken us for Thy children. Thou wouldst draw us to Thyself and Thy Heart forever, and make us eternally happy with Thy divine love. May the angels and saints, who already enjoy the unending bliss of possessing Thee, love Thee for us, thank Thee for us evermore. Out of nothingness Thou didst raise the world of angels to Thy throne into eternal happiness. We children of men thank Thee for this, their everlasting blessedness; we thank Thee that Thou hast appointed the heavenly spirits to be our guardians, so that one day we, too, being joined to their company, might love Thee eternally and enjoy Thee without end. For these and all Thy numberless benefits we thank Thee with the choirs of angels, with the hosts of the blessed forever and ever!
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)
For Wednesday
JESUS Christ, Son of the living God, give thanks to the eternal Father in heaven in the name of all the children of God. Redeemed by Thy Precious Blood, we have grown up and been reared in the true faith. As favorite children of God we have been loaded down with the gifts of nature and grace of the Holy Ghost. And like so many others we have been ungrateful children of God. ‘Therefore we beseech Thee, only-begotten of the Father, do Thou deign on this day to unite Thy divine thanksgiving with ours, that we may render a worthy return to God our Lord, and a worthy reparation for our own ingratitude and that of all mankind. Praise and thanksgiving be to the Father, through the Son in the Holy Ghost from everlasting to everlasting!
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)
For Thursday
THE Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Thanks to Thee, divine Redeemer, Who in Thy love wishest to be all like to us. Still further hast Thou loved us — for having loved, Thou didst love us unto the end. Day by day Thou presentest Thyself on our altars before the Father a victim for us. Nay Thou givest Thyself to us continually as the food of our souls. It is Thy desire to be and remain with us forever. Eternal thanks be to Thee, Son of God made man, hidden under the appearances of bread, for this Thy love enduring even to the end. Without end do we praise and thank Thee!
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)
For Friday
SACRED Heart of Jesus, we thank Thee that Thou didst Iove us even unto death. It was for us, divine Redeemer, that Thou didst suffer death; for us Thou didst shed the Blood of Thy Heart and with it Thou dost save us through all the Sacraments, particularly in the Sacrament of Penance. Thanks to Thee, O Jesus, for every drop of Thy Blood, for all Thy five death wounds. Thanks to Thee to-day particularly, that in Thy divine love Thou hast written us not only in Thy hands and feet but hast also inscribed us deeply on Thy Heart. Permit not that we be ever separated from Thy Heart; grant that we may live and die in Thy love!
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)
For Saturday
O MARY, with thee we magnify the Lord to-day and without ceasing, Who has done great things for thee, Who is mighty and holy in His Name. With the angel and with all generations we call thee blessed, we salute thee full of grace and conceived without sin whom the Triune God raised above all the angels and saints and chose for His own true Mother. With thee, O Mary, we offer thanks for thy privileges to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Ghost.
O Mary, true Mother of God, at the foot of the cross thou gavest thy first-born Son unto death for us, and so in thy sorrow became our Mother. Help us, Mary, with thy continual love that we, the children of thy sorrow, may with thee, the holy martyrs, and all the saints of God, follow thy crucified Son even unto death. Prove thyself a Mother, and after the crosses and sorrows of this life show unto us in heaven, Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb. Amen.
(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. Mary 6, 1909.)
THE GREATER DOXOLOGY
GLORY be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee, we glorify Thee. We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory. O Lord God, King of heaven, God the Father almighty. O Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Thou Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Thou Who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For Thou only art holy, Thou only art Lord, Thou only art most high, O Jesus Christ, with the Holy Ghost, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
THE LESSER DOXOLOGY
GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
