
Avoiding Conflict on Thanksgiving
For those who have difficult family situations, Thanksgiving can be a dreaded event that means dashed hopes, conflict, and sadness. But it needn’t be that way.
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For those who have difficult family situations, Thanksgiving can be a dreaded event that means dashed hopes, conflict, and sadness. But it needn’t be that way.

Family relationships can be the most joyful ones we have—but they can also be the most strained.

Sooner or later, we all long to be gathered around a table wide, where welcome brings well-being.

May you embrace every prophetic opportunity afforded you this day to be folded back into this fuller flock.

Every child is beloved by God, created in God’s image, and deserving of abundant life. Our vocation is to care for children far and near.

Well-being is the fruit of welcome and inclusion, the commonweal that makes us whole.

Let not fear keep you from stopping and stooping to touch and be touched by the wonderful-wounded nature of life in these times.

One of the most compelling calls to compassion comes from one of the worst places: a Nazi concentration camp. There, the dying Betsie ten Boom told her sister, “there is no pit so deep that [God] is not deeper still.”

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time November 19, 2023Cycle A In my ministry in the inner-city parish where I’m pastor, I’m often overwhelmed by the seemingly

Television is often filled with murders, detectives, crime and mayhem. It does not resemble my life. I choose to watch no crime series on TV this evening.