Don’t Forget: “Eucharist” means “Thanksgiving”

Lest we forget:

This history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true.

An
interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was
actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The
Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass
was offered.

A second similar "Thanksgiving" celebration
occurred on American soil on April 30, 1598 in Texas when Don Juan de
Oñate declared a day of Thanksgiving to be commemorated by the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass.

The Catholic origins of Thanksgiving
don't stop there. Squanto, the beloved hero of Thanksgiving, was the
Native American man who mediated between the Puritan Pilgrims and the
Native Americans. Squanto had been enslaved by the English but he was
freed by Spanish Franciscans. Squanto thus received baptism and became
a Catholic. So it was a baptized Catholic Native American who
orchestrated what became known as Thanksgiving.

Continue with the rest for the whole story.

And don't forget that Eucharist is Greek for "Thanksgiving."

Happy Thanksgiving!

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