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This is father Charles Sikorsky, president of Divine Mercy University.

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And on behalf of the university, I'd like to wish each and every one of you a happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you, your families, your loved ones, and I hope that this time spending together be a real way to grow closer together and love for each other, love for the Lord.

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Thanksgiving is such a great holiday for us because it gives us an opportunity to take a step back and be grateful to be grateful for all the blessings that God has given us.

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I know I'm grateful as president of Miami University for our entire community, our faculty, our staff, and our students, our benefactors, so many people, who are so generous and committed to the mission.

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It's a real blessing for me, and I'm very grateful and thankful to be a part of this mission and have you all a part of my my life and my mission.

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And I think the thing we should be most grateful for is God's presence in our lives.

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God who's with us, us, who's with us here in the midst of all the crosses and challenges that the world is going through, that our individual lives and families are going through.

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There's always a cross.

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There's always a difficulty and a challenge, but God's always there.

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We're not alone, and that should be the thing we're most grateful for.

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In the first chapter of the second letter to Corinthians, Saint Paul talks about this.

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He talks about the blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort and consolation.

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For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ, we share abundantly in comfort also.

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So in the midst of our battles, god is with us.

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And let's thank the lord for his mercy, for his comfort, for his his presence in our lives in the midst of all our difficulties.

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Difficulties.

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Have a happy Thanksgiving and a great weekend.