Priests for Life suggests the following Prefaces
from the Sacramentary for use at Pro-Life Masses

Independence Day And Other Civic Observances I (P82)

Father,

all-powerful and ever-living God,

we do well to sing your praise for ever,

and to give you thanks in all we do

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He spoke to men a message of peace

and taught us to live as brothers.

His message took form in the vision of our fathers

as they fashioned a nation

where men might live as one.

This message lives on in our midst

as a task for men today

and a promise for tomorrow.

We thank you, Father, for your blessings in the past

and for all that, with your help, we must yet achieve.

And so, with hearts full of love,

we join the angels today and very day of our lives,

to sing your glory in a hymn of endless praise: 

Holy, holy, holy…

 

Independence Day And Other Civic Observances II (P83)

Father, all-powerful and ever-living God,

we praise your oneness and truth.

We praise you as the God of creation,

as the Father of Jesus, the Savior of mankind,

in whose image we seek to live.

He loved the children of the lands he walked

and enriched then with his witness of justice and truth.

He lived and died that we might be reborn in the Spirit

and filled with love of all men.

And so, with hearts full of love,

we join the angels, today and every day of our lives,

To sing your glory in a hymn of endless praise: 

Holy, holy, holy…

 

Thanksgiving Day (P84)

Father,

we do well to join all creation,

in heaven and on earth,

in praising you, our mighty God,

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You made man to your own image

and set him over all creation.

Once you chose a people

and gave them a destiny

and, when you brought them out of bondage to freedom,

they carried with them the promise

that all men would be blessed

and all men could be free.

What the prophets pledged

was fulfilled in Jesus Christ,

your Son and our saving Lord.

It has come to pass in every generation

for all men who have believed that Jesus

by his death and resurrection

gave them a new freedom in his Spirit.

It happened to our fathers,

who came to this land as if out of the desert

into a place of promise and hope.

It happens to us still, in our time,

as you lead all men through your Church

to the blessed vision of peace.

And so, with hearts full of love,

we join the angels, today and every day of our lives,

to sing your glory in a hymn of endless praise:

Holy, holy, holy…

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