Give thanks in Christ. All Christ rejoice. Pray without ceasing. And in all things give thanks. That is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ. These beautiful words of the Apostles St. Paul and the Church Episcopal to the Christian audience. These words shall program our life for every Christian and especially for everyone. They also let us rejoice in this day which this entire nation Seeketh for moment to think of the idiot person that human selfishness begets to us, out of which we feel that this wild and beautiful dawn of Thanksgiving is over us.

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And don't mock thanksgiving, which is really nothing else but the Word of God. The Word of God made flesh. The one through him we give thanks to God. So let us rejoice in that. Let us celebrate this day of national holiday. Let us celebrate that as Christians and as monks in that fullness which But the nation and the new divine light that has been given us to the grave are God's witnesses. Let us talk for a while and let us think what is in there. For this beautiful act of thanksgiving was asked to speak the ingredients of this act. May I thank the first and necessary condition for a human being, for a person, and of course only a person can give thanks.

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The first condition is that our eyes are not locked to the values, to the beauty, the goodness of this world's wonders. and also of the world in us. And our eyes may be open. This, my dear friends, is not a thing which is understood by all. If you remember that every night we pray and contemplate the psalm in which it also says, the voice of the many we hope to know who say to the one who wants to lift up his heart and prayer, they say to him, why did you do this? Quick or steady notice? Who will show us, who will ever be able to show us good things?

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That is the blindness which confuses us. which will necessarily always be disappointed in this world, dictates to those who have no faith, who are unable therefore to see the good things, who wish for us the good things, that indeed is the purpose Condition, let there be a condition for us that we may become people who give thanks to God. We need somebody who shows us the good things, who opens our eyes, frees us from the blindness of forgiveness. But who is this?

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but the Word of God made flesh. The Word was made flesh and created among us as we behave in this world. St. Augustine is before you. Commentary on the Gospel of St. John B. Texas. Indeed, the Word made flesh We have, in this day of all human nature, our eyes blinded by concupiscence. How could we see the beauty of the world? But lo and behold, the world became flesh, and there is life being wasted for our blind. He became God of us, so we can see him in the ordinary, beautiful time, as our brother, as what we could share with earth and the flesh of this, our loneliness, the lightness of our spirit.

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who becomes in all things as a false land, live unto this breath. And there we can see, and we can behold his glory. Behold his glory in human holiness, in all things suffering, and even in death. with the holy scroll because how was it when God discovered this earth and he died on the cross and then the centurion the officer turned to those around him and he said yes truly he was a good You see that if our eyes open in the darkness at the hour of sacrifice, they take it, they keep it, beholds the Lord.

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So that is the first humor that we receive from our Lord Jesus Christ. The word may affect and enable us to behold the glory To behold the glory not in the inner splendor, not only in the rich and beautiful things of this world, but behold the glory even and exact in the hour of suffering and death. For then there is another There is another ingredient necessary to make the act of service big. And that is not only that our eyes are opened toward the value, and that we are safe and protected against the fish of those who fix their eyes on human sufferings and human death and say,

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Who will ever be able to show us good things in this life? Another thing is necessary. And then we recognize these good things and we see through the world made flesh a medicine for our hearts that we see these good things as gifts They are given to us by the infinite love that we must offer. In other words, that we now totally, in an aesthetical way, admire what is given. First, that we perceive it as a person being, as an expression. of that infinite goodness and mercy with which God the Father first chose us, with which he needs his children to be first taken.

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That is the statement. And that again, my dear friends, is not understood by the men Because the many will always say, let the world host them in. And they will therefore always say the good things with values and all its splendor. And it's something that has to be taken care of. And it's something that they owe. That is human pride. Human pride in public health. To speak this way to the truth will burst your neck of valor. And to see it as a gift. Humility is needed. The eye of the child is needed.

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The heart of the child is needed. To see in the good things of this world the deep of God, of infinite love. Then the only party against the third act is positive, which then really makes our attitude one of fantasy. And there it is the first one responds to this personal gift of our own. He responds to that. He responds which comes out of the depth of the dream and of the love that comes. This is one of the games, what I say, looking at man in the state of fallen nature is not understood.

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cannot even be armed by the name. They will always remain locked up somehow in their ego's deadly and selfish act. They will take it. They may take it even from a person locked up. But their thanks will be mixed. It is they and his mix will be mixed. Oh, if I don't give thanks, I will not receive another gift from this person. If God gives me something, I have to give thanks in order to dispose him of other gifts. All these things are mixed into the act of thanksgiving even, which comes out of the heart of a human person in this state of fallen nature.

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To make the response to God's gift in the values that these were understood. really complete, two things it seems to be are real. One is to understand that the human being which wants to respond to God's gift, sees that these gifts are given not only to him as an isolated person, but that they are given to the entire universe, to mankind as a whole, that they are gifts which are meant to give it up the entire temple of. These gifts have universal character because the love of fire necessarily

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is aimed at the welfare of his entire family. And therefore, in order to give the new response to God's gifts to us, what is needed is that the individual first joins the entire place, joins the people of God, It was a very public act of thanksgiving. That is, one way in which our so-called angel, Yeshua, has come beyond the limit of self-reliance in the very act of thanksgiving. Therefore, we thank God that we bring this act of thanksgiving today in the economy of many ways. as members of Christ's body, as members of the Eucharist.

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But still another thing is needed to make this our personal response really a response pleasing to God. And that is that we as human beings give thanks to God just for the divine splendor of the gift that is given to us. And then it's possible only in the work that has created all things and that heals all things with this. That is the beautiful mystery. that we can only go far away, that we can only go into with our human body, and that is the relation between father and son, in which the father is greatly, and the son is nothing but a pure mirror of the father's

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In the relation between Father and Son, that very response in all its purity is real. To such an extent that we as human beings can make our response to God's gift worthy of the giver only if the Son with pure miracle is good. So, my dear friends, you see how wonderful it is that we celebrate this day by offering this for the Eucharist, this offering of thanksgiving, which we close, as we know, in the past. With this doxology, it must be said, care is to the hope is to the faith is to the stupidity of the faith. in the light of the Spirit of the Lord.

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Through me and with me and him, to me, Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all of love and love. Through me and with me, to the good might of life, that hath trembled our eyes on the blindness of reductions to the expedient action of God, with it that leaves in covenant a part of the Son, whose devotion and whose love for his Father in the second constitutive element of landscape, and you will be living and eating. If in that way a member of Christ needs to walk in the church, and if in that way putting on the mind of Christ Jesus, who is the pure miracle,

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So again, let us headway this feast in this day by staying in this house of fullness, of our redeemed house, worthy and within and able to live our lives in the unity of the acclaimed one, all-honored one. I don't know.

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