{"id":15839,"date":"2024-11-23T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=15839"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T01:17:02","slug":"thanksgiving-is-our-response-to-gods-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/thanksgiving-is-our-response-to-gods-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving is Our Response to God\u2019s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thanksgivingby Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky) –
\nFor us Orthodox Christians, thanksgiving is our testimony to God\u2019s presence in the life of the world and of human beings.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

What is \u201cthanksgiving\u201d? Taking into consideration that everyone in America who is a believer, and everyone who recognizes God as Creator, today turns to God with hymns of praise, it follows that Thanksgiving Day has a religious character.<\/p>\n

For us Orthodox Christians<\/strong>, thanksgiving is our testimony to God\u2019s presence in the life of the world and of human beings.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is the profoundly religious response of our hearts, testifying with reverent joy and trembling that the Lord participates in our personal lives through His majesty, glory, and love.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is our response to God\u2019s gift.<\/strong> It is our joyful recognition of the mercy and goodness that God has shown to us in our lives.<\/p>\n

Finally, thanksgiving \u2013 a feeling of gratitude \u2013 is the foundation of our continuously renewed life in Jesus Christ, our Lord.<\/p>\n

The great Apostle Paul teaches us: Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks [1 Thessalonians 5:17-18].<\/p>\n

This feeling of thanksgiving to God is the primary, basic feeling in which a child should be brought up from the earliest age, in order to become an emotionally healthy person who is inclined towards, and capable of, spiritual development.<\/p>\n

It is with these feelings and these wishes that we turn today to the Almighty with hymns of praise. Amen.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014
\nHT: Pravmir<\/a>. (Bolding of key words and phrases, and some minor content organizational changes made by blog editors to improve readability.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky) – For us Orthodox Christians, thanksgiving is our testimony to God\u2019s presence in the life of the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity","category-religion-in-america","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}