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“Again we have all reason to be thankful towards the triune God for his loving kindness by which he daily and richly provides our bodies and souls with all that we need to support this body and life. “All this he does only out fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey him. This is most certainly true.” [Martin Luther’s explanation of the 1st Article of the Apostolic Creed][1] We thank the Lord of the Church Jesus Christ for having kept us throughout the year with his grace and mercy, especially with his most precious means of grace: Word and Sacrament . “Through these, as through means, he gives the Holy Spirit who produces faith, where and when he wills, in those who hear the gospel. It teaches that we have a gracious God, not through our merit but through Christ’s merit, when we so believe.” [CA V][2]
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