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Thanksgiving season is every season for Christians. In fact, the word eucharist comes from the Greek word for “thanksgiving.” In these weeks leading to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, enjoy our special feature on some Thanksgiving themes. We’ll update this feature regularly, with reflections on food, family and faith.

Special Features
Food, Family, Faith


The Freestore Foodbank and the "Cincinnati Cooks" Program

Jennifer Scroggins visits the Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank, a local agency that combats hunger and poverty in several creative ways, including a program to train people for jobs in all aspects of the food service industry. Click here for more.

Grace Before Meals

This month, families across the country will gather around their tables to celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a scene that Father Leo Patalinghug, a priest in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, is trying to get families to recreate the other 364 days of the year. He’s doing that through his Grace Before Meals movement (www.gracebeforemeals.com), which encourages families to prepare and enjoy meals together. Click here for more.

Saints at the Dinner Table

Amy Heyd,author of Saints at the Dinner Table talks with St. Anthony Messenger Assistant Editor Christopher Heffron about Thanksgiving and shares a few favorite family recipes. Click here for more.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread


For this installment of our Thanksgiving feature, “Food, Family, Faith,” AmericanCatholic.org traveled just around the corner to Our Daily Bread, a soup kitchen here in Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. Click here for more.




Cooking With Father Dominic


In the November 2003 issue of St. Anthony Messenger, Susan Hines-Brigger interviewed Father Dominic Garramone, O.S.B., then the host of the PBS television show Breaking Bread With Father Dominic.

As part of our ongoing Food, Family, Faith special feature here on AmericanCatholic.org, Susan caught up with Father Dominic, who has two recently published books. Here is their conversation.

And just in time for New Year's Eve celebrations, Fr. Dominic shares a recipe for smoked salmon pizza. Click here for more.





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Matt Talbot: Matt can be considered the patron of men and women struggling with alcoholism. 
<p>Matt was born in Dublin, where his father worked on the docks and had a difficult time supporting his family. After a few years of schooling, Matt obtained work as a messenger for some liquor merchants; there he began to drink excessively. For 15 years—until he was almost 30—Matt was an active alcoholic. </p><p>One day he decided to take "the pledge" for three months, make a general confession and begin to attend daily Mass. There is evidence that Matt’s first seven years after taking the pledge were especially difficult. Avoiding his former drinking places was hard. He began to pray as intensely as he used to drink. He also tried to pay back people from whom he had borrowed or stolen money while he was drinking. </p><p>Most of his life Matt worked as a builder’s laborer. He joined the Secular Franciscan Order and began a life of strict penance; he abstained from meat nine months a year. Matt spent hours every night avidly reading Scripture and the lives of the saints. He prayed the rosary conscientiously. Though his job did not make him rich, Matt contributed generously to the missions. </p><p>After 1923 his health failed, and Matt was forced to quit work. He died on his way to church on Trinity Sunday. Fifty years later Pope Paul VI gave him the title venerable.</p> American Catholic Blog We are called to share in the infinite life and love of God. We are called by God to a relationship that is destined to transform us into his likeness, to “divinize” us. This is going to take some stretching, to say the least.


 
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