Author: THERESA JACOBSON

Thanksgiving Day (Canada)	October 13, 2025
Prayer of the Day
Almighty God, our heavenly Father, your mercies are new to us every morning, and you abundantly provide for all our wants of body and soul, though we have not deserved your goodness. Give us your Holy Spirit, that we may heartily acknowledge your merciful goodness toward us, give thanks for all your benefits, and serve you in willing obedience; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:1-11
^1“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, ^2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there. ^3And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ ^4Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. ^5And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. ^6And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. ^7Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. ^8And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders. ^9And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ^10And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. ^11And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.”
Psalm 100 (LBW)*
^1Be joyful in the Lord, | all you lands;*
	serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence | with a song.
^2Know this: The Lord him- | self is God;*
	he himself has made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep | of his pasture.
^3Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his | courts with praise;*
	give thanks to him and call up- | on his Name.
^4For the Lord is good; his mercy is | everlasting;*
	and his faithfulness endures from | age to age.
Psalm 100 (ESV)*
^1Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
^2Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
^3Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
^4Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
^5For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

*The Book of Common Prayer verse numbers for this psalm are different from the numbering in the ESV.
Second Reading: Philippians 4:4-9
^4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. ^5Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ^6do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ^7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ^8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ^9What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Gospel: John 6:25-35
^25When {the crowd} found {Jesus} on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” ^26Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. ^27Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” ^28Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” ^29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” ^30So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ^32Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ^33For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ^34They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” ^35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”