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of The National Black Catholic Congress

We Wish You a Very Blessed and

Happy Thanksgiving.

We Are Grateful for You!

Catholic Thanksgiving Prayer

Thank you, Father, for having created us and given us to each other in the human family. Thank you for being with us in all our joys and sorrows, for your comfort in our sadness, your companionship in our loneliness. Thank you for yesterday, today, tomorrow, and for the whole of our lives. Thank you for friends, for health, and for grace. May we live this and every day conscious of all that has been given to us.

– From "The Catholic Prayer Book," compiled by Msgr. Michael Buckley

Thanksgiving guest etiquette

By Ben Mims for Food Network Kitchen

Let’s state the obvious: Hosting Thanksgiving is tough. And when the day comes for you to show up at a neighbor’s, friend’s or distant cousin’s Thanksgiving Day party, it’s a good time to re-evaluate what it means to be a guest in someone’s home, especially when you’re the one plunged into decades of familial inside jokes and eye rolls aimed at Uncle Jerry.

Here’s everything you need to remember to be a tiptop guest.

Baltimore group advocates for “saintly six” in Rome

By Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

(Photos submitted by Ralph Moore)

When three members of St. Ann Parish in East Baltimore sat down with leaders of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in late October to advocate for sainthood for six Black potential saints from the United States, they shared their personal experiences of being Black and Catholic.

Photo Captions: (top left) Ralph Moore poses with members of the Swiss Guard; (below left) Informational sign posted outside the Tomb of St. Peter; (right) The Baltimore group met with Fr. Patrick Dorelus, the interpreter and staff member of the Dicastery. Also pictured are Delores Moore (no relation) of St. Ann Church, Ralph Moore of St. Ann, Mary Sewell of St. Ann and Reverend Father Boguslaw Stanislaw Turek, the Undersecretary of the Dicastery.

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