Deepertruth: The Eucharist Means Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 

Each year I always look forward to theThanksgiving American traditions,the family get together s, the great banquets, the football, Thanksgiving Day Parades, and of course, the time off.

When my Children were young and growing up, we would always give the account of that first Thanksgiving how the Wampanoag Indians helped save the Pilgrims teaching them to plant corn and survive the bitterly cold winters.

In Catholic School, I remember the story being told through plays and celebrations showing how Squanto became a friend to the Pilgrims. Other than that, there was very little that I learned about Squanto. In a way, he is like the woman who washed the feet of Jesus with her tears and used her hair to dry them. Not much is really known of this woman accept Jesus is clear that her act of charity and love saved her and this story would be told. Squanto’s story is now just coming to light as I am learning more about him.

To the Indian, his name was Tisquantum, but to the English, he became known as Squanto. By 1621, Squanto had already been exposed to the Europeans ruthless greed as he was captured by Lieutenant John Smith as a young brave taken for the slave trade. It would seem that the story of Pocahontas and John Smith was not as Disney’s animated movie made him hot to be. Smith attempted to sell the Indians to Spain as slaves.