Happy Thanksgiving 2020

In what has to be the worst year in memory, we should still count all our blessings and thank All Mighty God. Someone sent me this beautiful prayer of blessings that seems to originate from the Dominican.  That's Dominican in the Order of St. Dominic.

Edit: Here is my little Thanksgiving present for you all.  It's a great article by Fr. Dwight Longenecker tilted "The Theology of Thanksgiving."  Here are two paragraphs to grab your interest.

"The Thanksgiving meal celebrated by the pilgrims, the settlers in Canada and earlier by Spanish settlers in Florida had its roots in well-established European harvest time traditions. When I moved to England I was delighted to find that, although they didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving as such, most Anglican parishes celebrated Harvest Festival in the Autumn. The church would be decorated with autumn flowers, colorful pumpkins, squash and everyone would bring tinned goods to be distributed to the poor. Some of them joked that this was their Thanksgiving — giving thanks that they had got rid of all those troublesome Puritans. So still the English celebrate harvest festival — a medieval custom which somehow survived the stripping of the altars. This treasured tradition, however, has deeper roots which the Protestants first rejected, then forgot.

For, of course, in Greek the word ‘Thanksgiving’ is ‘Eucharist’, and the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass has its roots in the Jewish thanksgiving sacrifice called the todah which is Hebrew for ‘thanksgiving and praise.’ Anyone familiar with the Old Testament religion may know about sacrifices such as the holocaust offering, sin offering or burnt offering, but not many will be aware of the todah."

There's a lot more.  

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers.  May God bless you all.