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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Friday, November 23, 2018. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about thankfulness. We have been talking about how we need to give

thanks to God, how it is crazy not to give things to God, how we should be thankful

for all of the teachings and blessings of our Catholic faith, and how we should even be thankful

and rejoice in that Thanksgiving when we are asked to suffer. Today, the last day of the week,

we are going to be talking about the most important aspect of Thanksgiving.

And that is how it connects with the Eucharist.

Now, you might be wondering, how does Thanksgiving have anything to do with us consuming the true presence, the true body, and blood of Jesus Christ

at Mass? Well, my friends, it has everything to do with that. In fact, the word Eucharist means

Thanksgiving. It comes from a different language, but it means thanksgiving. Now, let's talk about why this is.

Now, of course, you can think of it on one level that, of course, we are so thankful. Not only that God provides for our every needs, every day, but that he even goes beyond that.

He has a meal that we can go and consume every day once we have made our first Holy Communion.

That is truly the body and blood of Jesus Christ that allows us to have a deeper and more profound

relationship with him than we ever could on our own. So of course, we are thankful for that.

But it's even more. Now, this might be a bit of a deep concept, but I want you to think about this.

Now, in order to be truly and utterly thankful for something, we can't just say it.

We have to do something. We have to act to truly have that Thanksgiving be genuine. Now, what did what did Jesus

give us that we celebrate in the Eucharist? Well, he gave us everything. He came down to earth,

took on human form, and he gave up his life. And even before that, he gave up his dignity.

His friends abandoned him. He was embarrassed and physically hurt tremendously before he died.

He gave us everything. That is what we are celebrating each day we are at Mass and either witness or

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