Happy Thanksgiving!

October 9, 2023

Thanksgiving Day in Canada has been a holiday on the second Monday of October since 1957. It is a day to count our blessings and to enjoy family, community and friends.

Bless the Lord, all the earth … let us join with all creation in giving thanks to the God who has gifted us so lavishly!

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En Canadá, el Día de Acción de Gracias se celebra el segundo lunes de octubre desde 1957. Es un día para contar nuestras bendiciones y disfrutar de la familia, la comunidad y los amigos.

Bendito sea el Señor, toda la tierra… ¡unámonos a toda la creación para dar gracias al Dios que nos ha agraciado tan generosamente!

Publica aquí tu oración de agradecimiento

If we love God, we will undoubtedly love our neighbour also; they are as cause and effect.

Retreat Instructions, p.147

This is your life, joys and sorrow mingled, one succeeding the other.

Letter to Francis Warde

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will quickly show itself in the exterior.

Retreat Instructions, p. 145

May God bless the poor Sisters of Mercy and make them very humble that they may not be unworthy of the distinguished blessings God has bestowed upon them.

Letter to Elizabeth Moore

[God] knows I would rather be cold and hungry than the poor in Kingston or elsewhere should be deprived of any consolation in our power to afford.

Letter to Teresa White