How to Deal With Death During “the Holidays”
The Church has abundant spiritual resources to help the grieving. Let’s deploy them this “holiday season.”
Results from Tag: 'thanksgiving'
It is Our Duty and Salvation, Always and Everywhere, to Give Thanks to God
COMMENTARY: It is the glory of God that we should recognize him as our Father. To thank him is right and just, for everything we are and have comes from him.
Thanksgiving is Under Assault in Many Different Ways
The woke are like the Puritans. Both could benefit from a day of thanksgiving and penance.
![James Tissot [1836-1902], “The Healing of Ten Lepers”](https://publisher-publish.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20201126151148_e274d6bee820a2881a479daa2cc90675bae94f98569dc4f4ab40cc9115983e9c.jpeg "James Tissot [1836-1902], “The Healing of Ten Lepers”")
How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
“Remember the past with gratitude. Live the present with enthusiasm. Look forward to the future with confidence.” —St. John Paul II
‘Thank You, Thank You, My God!’: A Story of Grace, Gratitude and Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, as 2020 draws to a close, consider keeping the trials — and joy — of St. Josephine Bakhita in mind.
This Thanksgiving, Put Your Hands Together for God
COMMENTARY: Giving thanks to God during a crisis may be the purest form of giving thanks since it recognizing something that deserves thanks in the midst of widespread suffering. It also expresses the hope that things will improve.
A Thanksgiving to Remember: Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom From Want”
Freedom from Want is the third in a four-part series of paintings which Rockwell titled “The Four Freedoms.”
Thanking God at Thanksgiving: 100 Years Ago and Today
COMMENTARY: Thanksgiving Day in the United States has always been, first and foremost, about being thankful to God. That seems worth remembering, at least once a year.
Thanksgiving Togetherness: Cultivating Fellowship Around Feasting
Catholic families extend an inviting hand on Turkey Day and come together on a parish level to help those in need.
How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Being grateful to God is a powerful exercise — one that can lift up the faces of the downtrodden, energize the lifeless and breathe a spirit of joy into the brokenhearted.
