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Thanksgiving 2008
BY Father Owen Kearns, LC
November 23-29, 2008 Issue |
Posted 11/18/08 at 9:36 AM
This week we
celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a day which takes on special meaning after an
election. This year, as Americans battle in the political arena over the right
to life, it’s helpful to remember a time when America was battling — literally
— over the right to liberty.
In those days, President Lincoln
prayed on Thanksgiving for God “to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore
it ... to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and unity.”
We pray for the same thing this
Thanksgiving — for a nation united once again around its founding principles of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
While we pray for this, it’s helpful
to remember that the first Thanksgiving celebration in the New World — on Sept.
8, 1565 at St. Augustine, Fla. — was centered on Our Lady and the Mass.
Let’s include both at Thanksgiving 2008, as well.
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