{"id":32958,"date":"2015-11-26T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32958"},"modified":"2015-11-27T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:09:37","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HappyThanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32959 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HappyThanksgiving-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"HappyThanksgiving\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HappyThanksgiving-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HappyThanksgiving-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HappyThanksgiving.jpg 1353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The act of gratitude is the first step of holiness. This is the teaching of great saints: Augustine, Aquinas, Benedict, Mom. Loyola spoke of the sin of ingratitude in strong terms. Why is gratitude especially important? For one, it reminds us that we don&#8217;t make ourselves. It reminds us that God is in-charge and that He loves us. As one commentator said, \u201cThe habitual practice of this first step [of Loyola&#8217;s teaching on the Examen that you start with gratitude for all that God has given,] opposes \u201cspiritual amnesia\u201d that the enemy tries to cause with desolation.\u201d Jesuit Fr. John Navone writes, \u201cTell me what you remember, and I\u2019ll tell you what you are (, S.J.). Another Jesuit,\u00a0\u00a0Fr. John Hardon, used to say &#8220;the human memory is like a sieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our asceticism is to create the space to\u00a0consciously remember good things &#8212; the blessings thus becomes a first step; acknowledging them moves into thanksgiving. Blessings on Thanksgiving Day 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of gratitude is the first step of holiness. This is the teaching of great saints: Augustine, Aquinas, Benedict, Mom. Loyola spoke of the sin of ingratitude in strong terms. Why is gratitude especially important? For one, it reminds us that we don&#8217;t make ourselves. It reminds us that God is in-charge and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Thanksgiving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2579,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32960,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958\/revisions\/32960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}