Thanksgiving and other news
Purple Catholic Saturday Post
Good morning and happy Saturday.
We celebrated Thanksgiving this week and as such, my newsletter is shorter today. We have a lot to be thankful for.
This is one of the regions I like the Liturgy of the Hours so much. We begin each day giving praise to God for bringing us to another day. At the end of the day we ask God to sanctify our work and thank him for giving us rest.
Since we are completely depending on our Lord, we ought to give him thanks at all times. We do this in the Mass; giving thanks is “right and just.”
Below, I have shared some good reflections I have found on thanksgiving and Thanksgiving and I hope you’ll take a moment this weekend to read them.
In Thanksgiving - JD Flynn and Ed. Condon in the Pillar
Thanksgiving and the Catholic Mass - Charles Lewandowski in the Catholic Herald
This Thanksgiving, don’t feast on despair - Fr. James Martin, SJ in America Magazine
This week on UP North Catholic:
I talk about obedience and conscience and review the questions young Americans asked Pope Leo XIV. Tune in at 7pm this evening on 103.9FM in Marquette, MI or online at ClavesRegniMinistries.com.
You can also find the show on Sundays here on PurpleCatholic.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.
UP North Catholic w/ Matthew Handley
Tune into Matthew Handley’s newest program, UP North Catholic on Northern Apostle Radio or wherever you listen to podcasts.
First Sunday of Advent
This Sunday at Mass we will hear from Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122, Romans 13:11-14, and Matthew 24:37-44.
Here is a calendar for the rest of the week:
Wednesday, 3 December - Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, priest
Thursday, 4 December - Saint John of Damascus, priest and doctor (optional)
Saturday, 6 December - Memorial of Saint Nicholas, bishop (optional)
Show us thy steadfast love, O Lord,
and grant us thy salvation.
Psalm 85:7
In the news:
Pope Leo XIV in Türkiye and Lebanon
Pope tells Istanbul’s elderly they are the “wisdom of a people” - Vatican News
The United States
The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims - Dr. Marcus Peter in Catholic World Report
The Vatican
What leaked recording of Vatican official discussing FBI probe reveals - The Catholic Herald
Vatican halves 2024 budget deficit, according to new financial statement - The Pillar
Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree installed in St. Peter’s Square - Catholic News Agency
The World
President of Germany’s ZdK (lay Central Committee of German Catholics) re-elected - The Pillar
Have a good weekend,
Matthew