• Lord, we thank you
      for the goodness of our people
      and for the spirit of justice
      that fills this nation.
      We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the
      land and the challenge of the cities.

      We thank you for our work and our rest,
      for one another, and for our homes.
      We thank you, Lord:
      accept our thanksgiving on this day.
      We pray and give thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

      (Prayer from USCCB)