Spiritual Development

On Sunday, December 2 we celebrated the first of four Sundays of ADVENT. I remembered from my youth that ADVENT comes every year at this time, but there were so many special days on our church calendar – why or what were we celebrating?  However, I did understand that ADVENT had something to do with …

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In 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated after their first harvest in the New World, and some Americans call this the “First Thanksgiving”.  Wikipedia tells us that the first Thanksgiving feast was held at the Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts, lasted three days. and was attended by 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. It was already an established …

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