Thanksgiving Day

Year of Saint Joseph

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

Saint: Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin, Martyr (d.305); Saint Colman of Cloyne (522-600)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 46 Faults Committed in Other Matter

Mass: For Thanksgiving Day: Sirach 50:20-22; Resp Ps 145; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19

They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty and tell of your wondrous works.

JESUS, GIVER OF ALL GOOD GIFTS,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Happy Thanksgiving. We give "thanks for all the good God has done for us as individuals and as a nation." Praise Him from whom all blessings flow. And we unite ourselves with all those who are suffering, grieving, lonely, or estranged from loved ones. This can be a difficult time for many. God's love endures forever. 

The Merrian-Webster Word for the Day is jovial - "markedly good-humored" and describes people and things that are cheerful and full of joy. Let's get busy! 😊

Gratitude goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

(Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming)

Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you in a piece of marble. Let go of all emotions such as resentment and retaliation, which diminish you, and hold on to emotions, such as gratitude and joy, which increase you.

(Arabic Proverb)

IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, GIVE, THANKS, FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD FOR YOU IN CHRIST JESUS.

(Gospel versicle, Mass)

SAINT CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA,

SAINT COLMAN OF CLOYNE,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: When I saw this the other morning, I thought it was festive and fitting for today's National Holiday.

© Gertrude Feick 2021