Today may be a secular holiday but we gather and give thanks for our greatest blessing, the First Masses said on Catholic soil.
We thank God for our Catholic past and ask him to take up again the original plan for our Nation that it may rightly celebrate the Reign of Christ and Our Lady in all its festivals and actions.
a Mass of thanksgiving was said.
The first American Thanksgiving was neither at Plymouth Rock in 1621 nor in Texas on April 20, 1568 when Don Juan de Oñate crossed the Rio Grande and took formal possession of present day El Paso.
The first American Thanksgiving took place in St. Augustine, Florida, the first and oldest city of our present day US. The land was claimed for Spain and a Mass of thanksgiving was said on Sept. 8, 1565. – Reality & Myth regarding Thanksgiving, Marian T. Horvat. Ph.D.
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