Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Mass will be at 10:00am. Historically, Thanksgiving was viewed as a holy day more than a holiday, where society ceased from their work and gave thanks to God for all His goodness. Faith not football was the focus of the day. It was a day of worship and a family meal where the bounteous goodness of the Lord's provision was remembered. A Florida elementary school teacher, Robyn Gioia, however, has been waging a campaign to honor another Thanksgiving - though not a harvest festival - that took place in Saint Augustine, FL on September 8, 1565, fifty-six years before Plymouth. On that day, Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles and 600 Spanish settlers celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for their safe arrival in the New World and then held a feast of bean soup with Timucua Indians.