Happy Thanksgiving

It is my favorite secular "holiday"

I love the challenge of cooking and timing everything and getting it just right for my family.

It is a nice opportunity to pray for the conversion of our country.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Cant wait till Christmas. I get 2 weeks holidays.

It is my favorite secular "holiday"

I love the challenge of cooking and timing everything and getting it just right for my family.

It is a nice opportunity to pray for the conversion of our country.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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That's a beautiful thought, a beautiful message and you're a beautiful lady, Mabel.  

God bless you and your family!!  


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It's my favorite secular holiday, as well. I'm very sad I didn't get to Mass -- they said De Profundis.

That would be the Offertory Proper, Ps. cxxix. 1-2, which comes from the 23rd Sunday After Pentecost, and repeats on the 24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost.  This year we had the 4th, 5th and 6th Sundays After Epiphany earlier in the month, and the 23rd S.A.P. was commemorated on the Feast of Christ the King, last Sunday of October.  So the De Profundis was read at Offertory for that Mass and was the only Offertory prayer for this past Sunday.  And so the De Profundis was read today, as you say, Immaculata001, as well as yesterday, Wednesday.  I did not get to Mass these two days, unfortunately.

Therefore, the Ferias of this week, Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th of November, had the Mass of the previous Sunday, which uses the Introit from the 23rd S.A.P., "Dicit Dominus" (Jer. xxix. 11, 12, 14) with the Psalm lxxxiv. 2, "Benedixisti, Domine," the Collect, "Excita quaesumus," the Epistle "Non cessamus pro vobis, orantes" (Col. i. 9-14), and then the crowning glory, St. Matthew xxiv. 15-35:

"Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum.  In illo tempore :  Dixit Jesus discipulis suis :  cuм videritis abaminationem desolationis quae dicta est a Daniele propheta, stantem in loco sancto :  qui legit, intelligat..."

He that readeth let him understand.

This is the most important Gospel of the year.  It applies to us today.  

This is a good example of how our NovusOrdo friends are missing out.  They don't hear that Gospel at all, ever, and this in and of itself is a partial fulfillment of this prophesy of Daniel: "When you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ;  (he that readeth, let him understand)..."

For how can anyone in the Novus Ordo understand what is not read and is not preached "from the holy place" in these days of abominable desolation?  

It was displaced when they moved Christ the King from October to the Sunday before Advent (which the Traditional Calendar calls the 24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost).

I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of our fine Resistance priests preached on this, on Sunday, and perhaps even yesterday or today, if their Masses had sermons.  

We are very fortunate to get sermons by Fr. Pfeiffer, Hewko, Chazal, Girouard, and all of them, during the weekday Masses as well as on Sunday.  We do not know how good we have it!  


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I hope everyone had a happy holiday, for now it's back to work on Monday again.

It would be great to have such a day on the Calendar that's Catholic, but you'd have a hard time getting Protestants to join in with it. We could say December 8th, obviously, the Immaculate Conception, but in America, it would have to be the Thursday closest to December 8th or something like that.  It seems the popularity of Thanksgiving Day is largely due to the fact that it's on Thursday.  Maybe the Immaculate Conception could be the Saturday closest to the 8th of December.  This year, for example, that would be the 7th of December.  Or perhaps the Saturday following the Thursday of Thanksgiving would work, especially since everyone is already in town anyway?

The fact that so many Catholics are willing to be good sports and have a nice day on the 4th Thursday of November goes to show that it's the Protestants who are the dogmatic troublemakers, not the Catholics.  

It would be a pretty bad example for Catholicism's universality if all Catholics were to gripe and moan about how terrible it is to have a "protestant holiday" once a year when protestants take a minute to be thankful to God like Catholics do every day of the year.


So, maybe it's too late for this year, but perhaps we can remember it for next year:  

Don’t forget to raise your wine glass and recite the wonderful limerick of
Hilaire Belloc:


“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”

― Hilaire Belloc

(Apparently, the "Catholic sun don't shine" at Souplantation!*  HAHAHAHA)


And, here is an equally appropriate toast for that day, that came from the British isle, by G.K. Chesterton:

“In America they have a feast to celebrate
the arrival of the Puritans.
In England, we should have a similar feast
- celebrating their departure.”

― G.K. Chesterton

(source:  Ian Kerr Chesterton: A Biography)

*Souplantation is an all-you-can-eat salad, soup and pasta buffet with no alcoholic beverages, and no turkey, beef, ham or pumpkin pie.  But they do have a sort of ice cream, more like imitation ice milk.
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Neil Obstat,

Thanks for being honest to recognize that the day of Nov. 28, 2013 is a religious Protestant day they have for their own "thanksgiving".

On a side note.  As that day, as you mentioned, "is a 'protestant holiday' once a year when protestants take a minute to be thankful to God like Catholics do every day of the year", that if protestants are heretics, condemned as a religion from the One True Church in order to guide others away from their errors, as such, the protestants do not have the true God, then who do they worship and give "thanksgiving" to?

If they are heretics, Scripture says that they are of the "Gentiles".

In Psalms 95:5 God revealed that: "For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils."

And also, in the First Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Corinthians, Chapter 10:12, "You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils."

That may sound strong coming from God Himself; yet the purity of God is undefiled and un-ecuмenical to other religions; regardless of what ever they drum-up to suit themselves in their cause.

The True God teaches us, through the Holiness of the Catholic Church, that we cannot partake in those things at table which are not in origin from Himself; as if to join in with the rest of the religions out there; Hindu, Buddha, Jєωs, Protestants, Naturalists...

The God of Moses, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, St. Catherine, St. Francis, St. Benedict, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Gabriel, and so on, is a Jealous God for the purity of our souls not to be defiled with other religious acts and worship; that would be idolatry and adultery to our promises of our Baptism if we conscientiously had done those things.

So in all things, Honor to God, and His Blessed Mother, that only Catholics recognize with Honor, a Mediator, and as a Co-Redemptorist.

O'Mary, purity of soul, and queen of Martyrs, pray for us...to be Faithful to the True God in these dark and trying times we live in.

God bless.

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my mistake -- should have said captain morgan:





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