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🗓️ 28 November 2019
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0:00.0 | Well, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm going to talk a little bit about the |
0:08.6 | history and the theology of Thanksgiving. You can tell my voice is pretty ripped up. I've had Strep the last week and it's just now getting better. So appreciate your prayers on that. |
0:23.0 | We're going to go through some quick points on Thanksgiving. |
0:27.0 | As you know, Thanksgiving here in America is based on the Puritans |
0:32.0 | and their lack of a liturgical calendar. |
0:35.0 | So this is a big Protestant feast day in America. |
0:38.8 | However, there are some Catholic facts related to that, and I wanted to share those with you and the very |
0:44.8 | first one is that Squanto is a Catholic now you'll remember Squanto was the |
0:51.8 | Native American who greeted the pilgrims, helped them survive during the winter, |
0:57.0 | showed them how to eat the corn and preserve the fish and all that, every kindergartner learns this when he goes through |
1:04.0 | kindergarten you make all the crafts so Squanto was actually kidnapped by |
1:08.1 | John Smith remember him from Pocahontas he took John or took Squanto or took Squanto back to Europe and I don't know all the details I forgot some of them but |
1:19.1 | Squanto was eventually became a catacumen and he was baptized by the Franciscans. |
1:27.3 | He was baptized as a Catholic. |
1:29.6 | So Squanto became a Catholic. |
1:31.6 | He came, I think he was over there for five years he came |
1:34.3 | back to the new world and that's how he knew the language he knew the European |
1:39.3 | customs he was able to help the Puritan. So the big winner, the big hero, is Squanto. He's, if it wasn't for him, the Puritans would have died. So |
1:49.4 | it was Squanto, the Catholic who helped him out. Now in my YouTube there's an old video you can find it's just a two and a half minute video |
1:57.4 | It's five years ago and I tell the whole story of squanto in much more detail. You can see the younger |
2:05.0 | Taylor Marshall from five years ago where there's none of this gray in the |
2:09.2 | beard. Now the second fact is that the original Thanksgiving, the first American |
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