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So we don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 He\u2019s that good.\u00a0 Here he explains that what we believe does matter.\u00a0 So at this season, when we are told to just give thanks in some vague, who cares about it way, it\u2019s nice to remember that the God the pilgrims thanked may well have been different than the spirits the American Indians thanked.\u00a0 And for that reason alone, it\u2019s worth celebrating since who we give thanks to says much about what we believe.\u00a0 And what we believe, turns out, does matter after all.\u00a0 Happy Thanksgiving Fr. Barron!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 He\u2019s that good.\u00a0 Here he explains that what we believe does matter.\u00a0 So at this season, when we are told to just give thanks in some vague, who cares about it way, it\u2019s nice to remember that the God the pilgrims thanked may well have been different than the spirits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFr. 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