Liturgical Color: White

Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15

Theme: Living lives of thanksgiving.

Pastoral Invitation to the Thanksgiving Celebration
Suggestion: Invite the people to remember and recall their vows of church membership. Print the vows in the order of worship. Ask them to spend some time thinking about them as their response in gratitude to God's call to them, as persons, and as a congregation.

At the conclusion of this reflection, ask the people to respond several times, in several ways, with the words, "Our praise will never end; our thanks will never end."

Act of Recognizing our Humanness and Receiving New Life
Consider this: Begin with this introduction. "Perhaps the greatest sin, especially for people who have so much, and that includes most of us, for we are the richest people …