(Thanksgiving) The juxtaposition is startling--the Thanksgiving feast we have just enjoyed and our text for the day:

" . . . I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me water; I was a stranger and you invited me into your homes; naked and you clothed me, sick and in prison and you visited me." (Mt. 25: 35-36 The Living Bible).

And yet what better day is there than this one--between the celebration of Thanksgiving, the one day when gluttony is transformed from a sin to a sacrament and Advent and Christmas, the season of our most conspicuous national consumption? What better day is there to remind ourselves of those persons in this world not as fortunate as we?

And we do need to remind ourselves.

We are much like Charlie Brown in the PEANUTS cartoon series. Lucy is seated …