Our nation’s officially-designated day for giving thanks has come and gone.

This Thanksgiving, my husband and I went to Mass at St. Michael the Archangel parish in Streator. We have both done this as single people in the past, but there hasn’t been a Mass on Thanksgiving Day in Streator for quite a few years. So, one of the first things we were grateful for, was the opportunity to go to Mass locally and give thanks. We hope it will continue in the future.

(A special shout out to Fr. Francis Strong for offering the Mass, and for his excellent homily, where he cited words from Abraham Lincoln and spoke of how the word eucharist means giving thanks, so each time we go to Mass (the Eucharist), we are there to offer thanks.)

The church was pretty full, and the altar was filled with non-peris

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