Foreigners do not celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving is not celebrated the world over. Few people in the United States even know that foreigners do not celebrate Thanksgiving with us. That's just sad.
I bet the Pope didn't even have a message for Thanksgiving Day. Typical. Although in the past week he took the time to travel to another foreign capital to address a gathering of more foreigners about how useless infertile grandmothers are. Grandmothers play a huge role in Thanksgiving BTW - the Pope's remarks are a typical patriarchal slur. The Pope also snubbed all the Catholics in Strasbourg when he was there.
Oh well.
Don't worry about me though. I'll be joining the family at the Indian Casino this afternoon - what better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than sharing it with family and friends you never met before at Mystic Lake? Anglo-Americans sharing buffet-style, all-you-can-eat dinner with Native American servers - that is exactly how the Pilgrims did it. Then they shopped for beads and got some really good land deals.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Ter. Are you really going to the casino? Around here the casinos don't have any Indians working there. It's all white people because the Indians were such bad employee's they never made it past a few months of opening. Sigh
ReplyDeleteNo - I didn't go - but after writing this I've decided it is probably one of the best ways to celebrate the feast. ;)
DeleteTerry, normally what you post here is excellent. I especially give kudos when you smash the prideful musings of the radical traditionalists, and share in that mission of shunning that lot. However, if you aren't being sarcastic, I have to respectfully disagree with your pope shunning comment of the so called grandmothers.
ReplyDeleteIf you read his whole speech, he was referring more to the anti-life culture and/or mentality that Europe has sunk into. Yes actually you could say those grandmothers are I fertile and on purpose. The next generation above me (yours?) of 20 and under are the current grandchildren of today. The grandmothers of today were the youth of yesteryear shaped by the ravenous 60s and 70s culture of rebellion and abortion and "free love baby, yeah". Sadly my neck of the woods started the anti-life rhetoric in the Church when the Winnipeg statement was abused to the extreme and lead to a chain reaction worldwide for the Church clergy to say it's ok to abort/have premarital sex, etc. So now we look here down the road at today's grandparents, and you wonder why we Catholics have been dying in population and practice, and the world is the state it is today.
That's what I see in the speech. Not a patristic snub (unless you believe the Rad trads in his general snubbery.)
Don't be concerned Julian - there is not a shred of truth in this post - it's just a joke.
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving.
Thank goodness, Terry. You had me puzzled there, for a minute.
DeleteBlarrrrgg! Well I did think maybe it was sarcastic. It isn't as obvious as Fr. Juan Duhlsdorf, Fr. Z's evil twin
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with Fr. D. His stole must be one of those with multi-colored images embroidered on it so it can complement his tie-dyed vestments and pottery vessels; hand-thrown pottery, made himself on a retreat with native american shamans (shamen?).
DeleteI hope you didn't really have to spend Thanksgiving with strangers I'm happiest when surrounded by muchos nietos as I was today. Lots of cooks and helpers in the kitchen as well. We just said night prayers together and are now eating the pie we were too full to eat earlier.
ReplyDeleteI never could get used to Matt Smith as Dr. Who. Happy and blessed giving of thanks!
ReplyDeleteSome of my friends thought I had the coolest family ever because we sometimes went to the casino buffet for holidays. My mom would love to go to Little Six for dinner but we can't go there on the disabled persons transport since it's out of the service area.
ReplyDeleteKids don't know any better. What?
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