TOUGH AS THIS YEAR HAS BEEN
WE SHOULD STILL BE THANKFUL
(I’ve posted the reflection below at several Thanksgivings over the years. As the challenges of 2020 continue, we must remember that we still have much for which to be thankful. And so I offer these thoughts once again.)
It’s the kind of thing one hears from people who went to Catholic school back in the 1950s — how the good nuns taught them that a complete and well balanced prayer is based on the acronym, ACTS, and includes four key elements…
- Adoration
- Contrition
- Thanksgiving
- Supplication
Being a convert, I didn’t go to parochial school, but I would imagine that the prayers of Catholic schoolchildren back then probably contained plenty of supplication, especially at report card time. (Probably still do.)
Adoration was likely well covered also, given the pious practices in which Catholic kids of the ’50s were steeped. Just how much true contrition there was would’ve been anybody’s guess. But it’s the element of thanksgiving which I’d assume was least present. [Read more…] about Remembering to Give Thanks