Thanksgiving Eve

We Receive Our Daily Bread with Thanksgiving to God and Service to One Another

“Fool!” (Luke 12:20). So is anyone who believes that we make our own living. Rather, it is the Lord who gives the land and its increase (Deuteronomy 26:9), who “supplies seed to the sower and bread for food” (2Corinthians 9:10). He who made us and all creatures still takes care of us, and He gives us a part in His Kingdom. Through our vocations, we serve others. In the Old Testament, the offerings of the people provided for the Levites. So also in the New Testament, “God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work” (2Corinthians 9:8). We do not create ourselves, nor does one’s life “consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15). Covetousness is idolatry (Ephesians 5:5). But we trust in Christ, from whose sacrifice alone all good gifts come. Flowing from our “confession of the gospel of Christ,” we submit to one another in service to our neighbor, supporting the work of the Church and serving in our daily vocations (2Corinthians 9:13). Such faith overflows “in many thanksgivings to God” (2Corinthians 9:12), from whom comes “every good gift and perfect gift” (James 1:17).