Gratitude for Those Who Are Gone

By |2018-11-22T01:56:07-06:00November 21st, 2018|Categories: Hope, Poetry, Thanksgiving, Time, Wisdom|

For all that we are often lost amid the loneliness, hostage to the gravity and grief that cause us to fall, there is always that sudden and unexpected upsurge of grace and glory to lift us high above the dark and sullen weight of so many dead and dying leaves... An old and valued friend, [...]

We Will Give Thanks

By |2022-11-19T16:30:23-06:00November 21st, 2018|Categories: Glenn Arbery, Thanksgiving, Wyoming Catholic College|

For most of us, Thanksgiving gives rise to some of the best memories of childhood, perhaps because the day is not complicated by the dramatic rituals and more profound emotions of other holidays. I think of my mother's America now, and I know that we have not lost it entirely, even in the divisions of [...]

A Gypsy Thanksgiving: Food That Will Help You Live Longer

By |2019-07-10T23:22:39-05:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Community, Culture, George Stanciu, Thanksgiving|

Food is a way to enjoy being alive. Drink wine and dance around the kitchen; kiss your beloved. Life can be beautiful… Experts with scientific credentials tell us the best way to resolve interpersonal conflicts, how to raise children, and what food to eat. These new gurus maintain that in principle scientific truths can guide [...]

Reminiscences of a Christian Girl in Wartime Holland

By |2022-12-05T18:11:49-06:00November 21st, 2017|Categories: Catholicism, Christmas, Thanksgiving, World War II|

If you’ve seen Jan Steen’s famous painting The Feast of St. Nicholas, you understand what an important place that holiday holds in the hearts of Dutch children, like My neighbor, Mrs. Stien. “A famous legend,” I declare carelessly of the one of the tales of the saint; she corrects me: “not a legend, but a [...]

The Gift of Thanks

By |2019-11-21T13:22:48-06:00November 23rd, 2016|Categories: Glenn Arbery, Thanksgiving, Wyoming Catholic College|

May this Thanksgiving be a feast of many gifts, both in the families we love and in this great nation for which we pray... Thanksgiving has always been an occasion when we offer God our gratitude for the many blessings He has given us. It is surely the most familial of our national holidays, but [...]

Celebrating Thanksgiving

By |2018-11-21T19:26:46-06:00November 23rd, 2016|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Thanksgiving|

At what other time of the year do families really come together in the way they do on Thanksgiving? I must admit, I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Thanksgiving. It’s not that I don’t love giving thanks—in fact, I really do love it. And, I especially love how we Americans do it. If I [...]

Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving

By |2018-11-21T19:27:24-06:00November 26th, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Joseph Pearce, Thanksgiving|

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. —Cicero I would mention that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  —G. K. Chesterton There are some things that take some getting used to for an Englishman living in the United States. It is [...]

With Hearts Full of Thanks

By |2023-11-22T23:02:13-06:00November 27th, 2014|Categories: Christopher B. Nelson, St. John's College, Thanksgiving|

By long custom at St. John’s College, the president invites to Thanksgiving dinner all our international students, as well as any other students and faculty who are spending Thanksgiving away from home and family. After the events of September 11, 2001, we added a series of readings to the tradition. Before we sit down to [...]

The Invention of Thanksgiving

By |2018-11-21T19:23:45-06:00November 27th, 2013|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, History, Thanksgiving|

I must admit, I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Thanksgiving. It’s not that I don’t love giving thanks—in fact, I really do love it. And, I especially love how we Americans do it. If I had my way, we’d have cranberry relish, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and turkey five times to six times to [...]

“Planes, Trains and Automobiles”… and Redemption

By |2019-11-27T22:16:12-06:00November 23rd, 2012|Categories: Audio/Video, Culture, Film, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Thanksgiving|

A lighthearted romp at first blush, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” tells the story of how the example of simple goodness can be transformational… The category of “Thanksgiving movies” is a select one indeed, but it is not meant as faint praise to crown John Hughes’ 1987 film, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the greatest Thanksgiving film [...]

A Wild Turkey’s Thanksgiving

By |2018-11-21T19:35:30-06:00November 23rd, 2012|Categories: Poetry, Stephen Masty, Thanksgiving|

Mister Franklin, humans call him; Turkeys call him Gentle Ben. Lovingly we keep his memory From our tree or field or fen, Once our day of thanks ensures That some of us outlasted yours. Wild and canny, lithe and limber, Peaceful as a bird can be, Perching high in Yankee timber, We, true Sons of [...]

Thanksgiving, the Puritans, and St. Augustine

By |2018-11-19T19:42:14-06:00November 22nd, 2012|Categories: Peter A. Lawler, St. Augustine, Thanksgiving|

Thanksgiving is the holiday that brings us all together, whether or not we’re Christians and whether or not we’re American citizens. It’s the first holiday of the Holiday Season that begins around now and lasts until New Year. We’re so sure that saying Merry Christmas is intolerant and dogmatic that we’re all about Happy Holidays—an [...]

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