“Every day is Thanksgiving. ThatöÏÓãÊÓƵapp what the Eucharist is for."

Thanks is a word and a way of being. It seeks out the gift in what is. It assumes there is a gift to be seen here. In the hardest seasons of my life, thanks has been a ladder out of darkness. A therapist once reminded me through my tears that what we focus on is magnified. When we actively practise gratitude, the gifts of the present become easier to see.

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of Your presence during my time of silence. You have given me the human ability to still myself and listen. You have blessed me with freedom from physical or emotional maladies which could hinder my ability to be silent and still. Yet, despite that gift, a million excuses keep me from coming to You.

We’re all guilty to some degree, aren’t we? I mean, guilty of taking things for granted.

Crisp air, fiery-coloured leaves, pumpkins and apples — the smell of autumn is in the air! ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp October, and Thanksgiving is upon us.

TORONTO – Come Thanksgiving Day, everybody eats — including the homeless. This year TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Good Shepherd Centre is asking you to skip lunch for one day and donate what you would have spent so the poor and homeless of Toronto can eat a Thanksgiving Day feast.

VATICAN CITY - At a Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp two newest saints, Pope Francis said missionaries do enormous good for the Church by bringing GodöÏÓãÊÓƵapp love to the far corners of the Earth and by keeping the Church healthy and fruitful.

The year-long celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Quebec reached into the Vatican on Oct. 12 with a papal Mass to honour CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp two newest saints. 

VATICAN CITY - Missionaries do enormous good for the world and the church by bringing God's love to the far corners of the earth and by keeping the church healthy and fruitful, Pope Francis said.