Holy Mass of Thanksgiving
Thursday Nov 25 - 10:00am
Please join us tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, November 25 for the Holy Rosary at 9:30am followed by a special Holy Mass of Thanksgiving at 10:00am. This is a perfect way to start off your big feast day!
Did you know that in 1789, the first president of the United States, George Washington, declared this day of thanksgiving to acknowledge "the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor?"
Washington set the day aside for Americans to give thanks for their newly established government, but most of all, to render unto God "sincere and humble thanks — for his kind care and protection.”
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the day a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience ... fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation...". President Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.