A Thanksgiving of Wonderful Efficacy

HAIL, my God, Light and Salvation of my soul, may all that is in the wound world, and within the circle of the heavens, and in the depths of the abyss, give thee thanks for all the benefits and tender mercies which thou hast bestowed on me in body and in soul.

And as the number of them is so great that I cannot answer thee for one of a thousand, I make over this duty to that eternal, infinite, unfailing gratitude whereby every debt to thee is acquitted by thyself, and through thyself, and in thyself, O thou bright and ever - peaceful Trinity! and obtruding myself on thy notice as a grain of dust, I offer thee, through him who stands at thy right hand, in the truth of my substance, such praise and thanksgiving as thou hast enabled us by thy Spirit to render to thee.

Amen.

- Preces Gertrudianae