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Thanksgiving prayer or prayer of Thanksgiving may refer to: any prayer of thankfulness; a prayer offered at Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving after Communion, a practice in certain Christian churches; Prayer of Thanksgiving, a Gnostic text from Nag Hammadi "Thanksgiving Prayer", a song from the 1978 film The Magic of Lassie "Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 ...
The Prayer of Thanksgiving is a Hermetic Gnostic prayer text preserved in Coptic, Greek and Latin. [1]The Coptic version is found in Nag Hammadi Codex VI, where it is text no. 7 at pages 63–65.
Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among most religions after harvests and at other times of the year. [1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation .
Thanksgiving Day service for members of the United States Army Air Corps, held in a church in Cransley, Northamptonshire, England, November 23, 1944. The tradition of giving thanks is continued today in many forms, most notably the attendance of religious services, as well as the saying of a mealtime prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. [5]
St. Thomas Aquinas (+1274) composed a Prayer of Thanksgiving after Communion that became a classic: I thank You, O holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who have deigned, not through any merits of mine, but out of the condescension of Your goodness, to satisfy me a sinner, Your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
A grace is a short prayer or thankful phrase said before or after eating. [1] The term most commonly refers to Christian traditions. Some traditions hold that grace and thanksgiving imparts a blessing which sanctifies the meal. In English, reciting such a prayer is sometimes referred to as
Prayer can take a variety of forms: it can be part of a set liturgy or ritual, and it can be performed alone or in groups. Prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creedal statement, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person. The act of prayer is attested in written sources as early as five thousand years ago.
Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925, National Museum of Women in the Arts. In Protestant Christianity, a day of humiliation or fasting was a publicly proclaimed day of fasting and prayer in response to an event thought to signal God's judgement.