Mandy Grace

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@FrontlinesTPUSA Where in Chicago is this?

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

The more you know!

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@CeciliaGlennon Yes! Our local library has a table near the entrance with puzzles to exchange. That's why I've been obsessed with puzzles the last few years. I'm too cheap to buy them and I don't want to use the space to store them.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@DefiantLs She needs to read some Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The youth aren't leaving the Church; They are coming back.
And they are even building it in their games.

There is a massive community of Minecraft players who spend thousands of hours building 1:1 scale replicas of the world's greatest Cathedrals (Cologne, St. Peter's, Sagrada Familia). These aren't just empty shells; they build the crypts, the altars, and the naves with reverence, often finding faith through the digital architecture.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

TV shows in the '80s would stop their episode just to wish viewers a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

We truly used to be a proper country.

[Andrew In The Hills @TLMFarming]

Via Nicolas Geranios

Growing up, I was always taught that the “first Thanksgiving” was the meal between Squanto and the English pilgrims. That was the picture we all learned in school: friendly Native Americans helping a starving group of Calvinist Puritans and then sharing a feast in 1621.

Only in recent years did I learn how much of the story had been left out.

The actual first Thanksgiving on American soil took place in 1565 on Timucua (specifically Seloy) tribal land, in the place that would later become St. Augustine, Florida. It was celebrated by Spanish Catholics who had just arrived. They offered a Mass of thanksgiving and then shared a meal with the local Native peoples. In the most literal sense of the word “Eucharist” (which means “thanksgiving”), the first Thanksgiving was a Catholic act of worship followed by a communal feast.

None of this was ever mentioned in school.

And another part of the story I never heard as a kid: Squanto himself had been baptized Catholic years before he met the Puritans. His journey was extraordinary. In 1614, he was kidnapped by English traders under Thomas Hunt (English Protestants, not Spaniards and not Catholics) who tried to sell him into slavery in Spain.

What happened next is sobering...a part we were never told.

When Squanto arrived in Spain, Catholic friars intervened. They prevented his sale, took him in, taught him, and helped him make his way out of Europe. They are the ones who freed and protected him. Without their help, he would likely never have returned home.

Years later, when the Calvinist Separatists landed at Plymouth, hungry, unprepared, and close to death, it was this same Squanto (educated, freed, and helped by Catholics) who stepped in and guided them. Many historians agree they would not have survived the first year without him.

So while the 1621 feast is part of our national memory, the deeper story is far older and far more Catholic than we were ever taught. The first Thanksgiving was Catholic. The first European/Native cooperation on this land was Catholic. And even the survival of the pilgrims owes something to a Native man rescued and cared for by those formed by, and practicing, the Catholic Faith.

It’s a fuller and more honest telling of the story & one that fills in many missing pieces.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Yay! Elon helped save our country.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@DefiantLs It's always the hands and crazy eyes.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@TheMindScourge I discovered a love of jigsaw puzzles a few years ago, but I do them while listening to podcasts.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@JeremyTate41 Check out the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It was just built about 20 years ago.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

"When people stop talking, that's when you get violence." -Charlie Kirk

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@omegasjs @shaneyyricch Exactly! And go to Adoration.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@DefiantLs @SpillTheMemes

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@jayblackisfunny Who is paying you?

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@ElijahSchaffer Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. I could never leave His church.

[Timothy Gordon (Rules for Retrogrades Show) @timotheeology]

Jesus established a religion--not simply a book club with abstract universal manners--because He understood that man has a natural need for it

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@_Chris_Coghlan That you think it's about politics or swaying your vote shows how far you are from Jesus. Don't forfeit your immortal soul for pride in this world.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

@Prolife_Sam Successful moral men don't care about their wives being ambitious. They want to take care of their families, which gives meaning to their ambition.

[Mandy Grace @MandyGrace77]

Tell Apple not to mock the Eucharist https://t.co/d7fZ7UarBr