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Photo by Eva Kosmas Flores A Homily for Vespers on Thanksgiving Eve Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You know the story. Pious, plucky Pilgrims set out upon the sea, praying for a new start within a New World. Here they want to practice their faith as they would see fit. Britain they found too repressive, whilst Holland proved overly lax. America held the hopes and dreams of Europe’s teeming masses, both spiritual and material: the landless proletariat yearning for full bellies, fertile land, and a wide open horizon of endless possibility. Once Columbus landed, there could be no holding them back. People would sacrifice anything to improve their families’ future. It seemed almost providential, the way that the New World had cleared out. Waves of disease had decimated the precolumbian population. And at least some of those who had survived proved eager to ma...
