Comments on: Freedom from Want – Making the Dream a Reality at Thanksgiving http://catholicexchange.com/2008/11/27/114544/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: items | HP.com HP United States http://catholicexchange.com/2008/11/27/114544/comment-page-1/#comment-36415 items | HP.com HP United States Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:12:58 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2008/11/27/114544/#comment-36415 [...] Freedom from Want – Making the Dream a Reality at Thanksgiving The items come trickling in a few a time. Parishioners turn in the food items as they go into Church. This goes on all year long at my parish to support our parish food pantry, begun twenty years ago to help support the poor in our … [...] [...] Freedom from Want – Making the Dream a Reality at Thanksgiving The items come trickling in a few a time. Parishioners turn in the food items as they go into Church. This goes on all year long at my parish to support our parish food pantry, begun twenty years ago to help support the poor in our … [...]

]]> By: Warren Jewell http://catholicexchange.com/2008/11/27/114544/comment-page-1/#comment-36414 Warren Jewell Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:06:03 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2008/11/27/114544/#comment-36414 + Let us remember that we are in the Holy Presence of God. Thanksgiving is one holiday that let's us know that in the giving, we receive more than we can count. It is a very obvious Eucharist of a holiday. Every can a 'Glory Be', every fresh item a 'Hail Mary', the traditional turkey is sacrificed to 'Our Father'. All received and appreciated in the little church of family and friends, the one constant Guest in every home is the good, loving, giving and delighted Lord Himself. To make such glory available to those who cannot afford it themselves will go on being remembered when we are where there is not 'time' to forget. + Let us remember that we are in the Holy Presence of God.

Thanksgiving is one holiday that let’s us know that in the giving, we receive more than we can count. It is a very obvious Eucharist of a holiday. Every can a ‘Glory Be’, every fresh item a ‘Hail Mary’, the traditional turkey is sacrificed to ‘Our Father’. All received and appreciated in the little church of family and friends, the one constant Guest in every home is the good, loving, giving and delighted Lord Himself.

To make such glory available to those who cannot afford it themselves will go on being remembered when we are where there is not ‘time’ to forget.

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