Collects of Thanksgiving

O most blessed and glorious Lord God, who are of infinite goodness and mercy:¹ We your poor creatures, whom you have made and preserved, holding our souls in life, and now rescuing us out of the jaws of death,²

humbly present ourselves again before your Divine Majesty, to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving,³

for that you heard us when we called in our trouble, and did not cast out our prayer, which we made before you in our great distress:⁴ Even when we gave all for lost, our ship, our goods, our lives, then did you mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance; for which we, now being in safety, do give all praise and glory to your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.⁵