{"id":4030,"date":"2025-11-27T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:16:58","slug":"thanksgiving-celebration-2025-year-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-celebration-2025-year-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Celebration 2025 (Year C)"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p>As you gather with family to remember the blessings of this life, I present this virtual service as an offering of thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thanksgiving-2025-Year-C.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening Acclamation: Psalm 136:1-3. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cNow Thank we All Our God\u201d, performed by St Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church, Guelph, Ontario Canada; used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FIrst reading: Deuteronomy 26:1-11, King James Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm: Old 100<sup>th<\/sup>. Washington National Cathedral Singers, performed in 2015, used in accordance with Creative Commons license. The organ overpowers the singing at times, so here is the text: \u201c<em>All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Serve him with joy, his praises tell, come now before him and rejoice! Know that the Lord is God indeed; he formed us all without our aid. We are the flock he surely feeds, the sheep who by his hand were made. O enter then his gates with joy, within his courts his praise proclaim! Let thankful songs your tongues employ. O bless and magnify his name! Because the Lord our God is good, his mercy is forever sure. His faithfulness at all times stood and shall from age to age endure<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading: Phillippians 4:4-9, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anthem: \u201cRejoice in the Lord Always\u201d by The Choirs of St. Matthew\u2019s, Ottawa, directed by Stephen Candow. Uploaded to YouTube by Leonard Surges, and used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel: John 6:25-35, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord\u2019s Prayer: Setting by Phillippe Radcliffe (1905-1986), performed at Kerke de Laurens, Rotterdam, in 2020. Used in accordance with the Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benediction: Ephesians 3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cWe Gather Together\u201d sung by Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California, uploaded to YouTube by Martijn de Groot, and used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Bible passages were recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\">Librivox<\/a>, and are in the public domain.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you gather with family to remember the blessings of this life, I present this virtual service as an offering of thanks. 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