A Reflection on the Scripture Readings from todays Catholic Mass…… Thanksgiving The 1936 Thanksgiving proclamation of Connecticut Governor Wilbur L. Cross: Time out mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heal of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, Who has brought us by a way we did not know to the end of another year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the twenty-six of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving for the blessings that have been our common lot and have place our beloved State with the favored regions of earth--for all the creature comforts: the yield of the soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained our lives--and for all those things, as dear as the breath to the body, that quicken mans faith in his manhood, that nourish and strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before him: for the brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after truth; for liberty and for justice freely granted by each to his fellow so as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory and mercy of peace upon our land;--that we may humbly take heart of the blessings as we gather once again with solemn and festive rites to keep our Harvest Home. ~ Wilber L. Cross Wilber L. Cross (+ 1948) was the seventy-first governor of Connecticut.
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