The triple crown of holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. All three honor God, but for different reasons. It is really interesting how each of these fall on the calendar. Thanksgiving is always in November and on Thursday, but on different dates each year.. Christmas is always celebrated in December and always on the 25th, therefore, Christmas is on a different day of the week every year. Easter always occurs on Sunday, but not necessarily during the same month every year. In 325CE the Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox. So Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or after March 21. It can be as early as March 22 and as late as April 25 depending on when the Paschal full moon is.
Thanksgiving is our national holiday set aside to thank our Heavenly Father for his provisions and his blessings which are many. We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Savior, our Redeemer at Christmas. And on Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, the One who died on the cross as the sacrificial Lamb for the forgiveness of our sins. In that Jesus became our only Hope for eternal life. The one thing that makes all of these holidays alike is that we remember God our Father’s acts of love and grace toward us, sinners, who don’t deserve anything for which we celebrate.
Today, Thanksgiving, don’t forget to praise God for what happened on the first Christmas and the first Easter. If not for Jesus birth and his death and resurrection we most likely would not have a Thanksgiving.
So why did the Beatles stop inviting Ringo to the Thanksgiving meal? Because he would not share the drumsticks.
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