Celebration
Sep 14, 2012 News
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With much joy the Thanksgiving day is celebrated the Thanksgiving day (in English: Thanksgiving, literally " giving gracias") it is a traditional celebration of the United States and Canada, as it indicates Wikipedia to it In the United States the fourth Thursday of the month of November is celebrated, although originally the last Thursday was made. In Canada, on the other hand, the second Monday of October is celebrated. In this festival they generally meet around a table familiar and friendly to share a banquet. christiananswers.net contributes, that in November of 1623, after collecting the harvest, the governor of the colony of pilgrims " Plymonth Plantation" in Plymonth, Massachusetts, declared: " All you, pilgrims, with your spouses and children, congregate yourselves in the communal house, the hill to listen the shepherd, and to give thanks to God all powerful by all bendiciones." This it is the origin of our annual celebration of the Thanksgiving day. In the following years, congress of the United States proclaimed in several occasions the day of action of thanks to the all powerful one. Finally, 1 of November of 1777 officially was declared like holiday day: " for solemn adoration and thanksgiving that with a heart and in unit of voice, the good people express their feelings of gratefulness, and the their divine benefactor, devote themselves to the service of and that their humble pleas please to God, by means of the merits of Jesus Christ, that is merciful to pardon, erasing and forgetting their sins That it pleases God that the schools and seminaries of education, so necessary to cultivate principles of true freedom, virtue under its protective hand, and to prosper the religion for the promotion and engrandecimiento of that kingdom which consists of peace, justice and joy in the Spirit Santo " Thursday, 19 of February of 1795, George Washington separated thus that one day like the national day of thanksgiving.
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