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Happy Thanksgiving Day, Canada!

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!

Enter his gates with thanksgiving
   and his courts with praise;
   give thanks to him and praise his name.
Psalm 100:4 NIV

According to Wikipedia, Thanksgiving (Action de grâce), or Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l’action de grâce) is an annual Canadian holiday, occurring on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Its roots extend to feasts of thanks beginning in 1578. The first Thanksgiving Day after Canadian Confederation was observed as a civic holiday on April 5, 1872. On January 31, 1957, a proclamation was issued stating Thanksgiving was to be “A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.”

Moi, je suis malheureux et souffrant.
O Dieu, que ton secours me mette en sécurité!
Psaumes 69:30 SG21

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Give thanks in every situation because this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 CEB

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Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalm 95:2 KJV

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