We thank you Father, for your readiness to hear and to forgive;

    for your great love to us, in spite of our unworthiness;

    for the many blessings we enjoy above our deserving, hoping or asking.

You have been so good to us 

    despite our ingratitude, thoughtlessness, and forgetfulness of you.

For your pity, longsuffering, gentleness and tenderness,

    we bow our heads in humble thankfulness of heart.

We worship you who are infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite power.

Accept our praise and gratitude; through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Amen.

 

Rev. C.J.N Child, English minister and headmaster

 

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Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;
    let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
    let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
For the Lord is a great God,
    and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth;
    the heights of the mountains are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
For he is our God,
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    and the sheep of his hand.