Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble till you Wobble!https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzE9F3PuAMy/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
A heartful Happy Thanksgiving! I am filled with gratitude for our family on MOG and to Padraig for bringing us all together.
Catching up a bit. Beautiful prayer,,, Prayers of Gratitude to Almighty God for His Goodness and Mercy! I’ll leave you with the meditation from St. John Henry Newman – a part of his sermon: “Remembrance of Past Mercies”. He points out that as God’s creatures, we have the duty to be thankful to Him. He says: Let us then view God’s providence toward us more religiously than we have hitherto done. Let us try to gain a truer view of what we are and where we are in His kingdom. Let us humbly and reverently attempt to trace His guiding hand in the years which we have hitherto lived. Let us thankfully commemorate the many mercies He has vouchsafed to us in times past, the many sins He has not remembered, the many dangers He has averted, the many prayers He has answered, the many mistakes He has corrected, the many warnings, the many lessons, the much light, the abounding comfort which He has from time to time given. Let us dwell upon times and seasons, times of trouble, times of joy, times of trial, times of refreshment. How did He cherish us as children! How did He guide us in that dangerous time when the mind began to think for itself and the heart to open to the world! How did He, with His sweet discipline, restrain our passions, mortify our hopes, calm our fears, enliven our heavinesses, sweeten our desolateness, and strengthen our infirmities! How did He gently guide us toward the strait gate! How did He allure us along His everlasting way, in spite of its strictness, in spite of its loneliness, in spite of the dim twilight in which it lay! He has been all things to us. He has been, as He was to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our God, our shield and great reward, promising and performing, day by day. “Hitherto hath He helped us.” “He hath been mindful of us, and He will bless us.” He has not made us for nought; He has brought us thus far, in order to bring us further, in order to bring us on to the end.
I thought this was a beautiful panting (sited by our pastor) on how our loved ones who have passed on are with us in spirit as we gather in prayer.
We don't celebrate thanksgiving here in Ireland have to say Ive always been jealous ... God bless you all in your Thanksgiving celebrations and if you can set a place for me spiritually
