2017 Nov 23, Happy Thanksgiving !
In the St. Joseph Facebook Bill F. posted Happy Turkeys ! But I am sure that turkeys are not happy this day.
This tradition of Thanksgiving is indeed one of the best traditions that we have to celebrate and continue to observe. For Thanksgiving presents the best in us as human persons. As Tradition tells us that thanksgiving is a recognition of the power of God in the lives of the people through the fellowship and sharing.
The person who thanks, is a person who recognizes his need for the other. That people can only live well and happily if they can live together in love and in service for one another. Our Thanksgiving is a solidarity for one another as ordained to us by God the Creator. We are made for one another.
However, Nowadays Thanksgiving Day has been politicized bringing in one’s group bias and hindering the unity for everyone. Likewise, Thanksgiving Day has been commercialized But as Christian let us focus our Thanksgiving as an integral part of our being human, our need for God and our need for one another.
In the Gospel that we have read today about the ten lepers healed by Jesus and one of them went back to thank Jesus, presents to us the power of thanksgiving. Jesus told the Samaritan who thanked him : Stand up and Go, your faith has saved you.
Thanksgiving presents the best in us as human beings, That is why, Thanksgiving must become our way of life as Catholics. It is also for his reason why the highest form of prayer that we offer to god as Catholics is called a Eucharist which also means thanksgiving. Every time we celebrate the Holy Mass or the Holy Eucharist, we thank God for all his blessings he has given us and through this we develop a Eucharistic Life, or a life of thanksgiving. AMEN
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