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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza
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Robert W. Shaffern
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Michael Pakaluk
“Given,” as in a gift
David Warren, Essays in Idleness
Thursday, November 26, 2020
The season of Thanksgiving is formally for the harvest; for our family drawn together in its receipt. The old and the new, the work and its fruits in our leisure, may not be celebrated as a religious festival in all households. Yet this does not make it irreligious. It is part of antiquity: was the “pre-religion” into which each of us was born. The instinct to Thanksgiving was implanted in us, long before we could give it a name.