Forgive us, but there's a lot to like about this Thanksgiving card. It has a lovely picture by N.C. Wyeth, a good prayer, but our favorite part is the quote from George Washington on the back. The President declared, at the urging of Congress, the first national Thanksgiving Day, which he did. In his proclamation the said, “That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care.”
You could hand these out to everybody on Thanksgiving to say the grace together, and to get a bit of true American history.
N.C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was a famous American artist of the Golden Age of Illustration. This picture was originally used in a banking poster promoting American ideals of Thanksgiving as well as thrift and industry. It was done about 1921. We changed the "THREE HUNDRED" to "FOUR HUNDRED" and changed the rousing closing lines from the urging of work and savings to a short prayer of gratitude to Allmighty God. Wyeth had a painter son, Andrew, who was famous for his "Christina's World" painting of the woman laying down in a field looking at a farm house.
N.C. Wyeth. Thanksgiving Day. Alternate Title: Early New England Oil on canvas. 33 1/2 × 30 in. (85.1 × 76.2 cm). In a private collection, Bernardsville, NJ.
If you want to use these cards year after year, be sure to get the plastic sleeves so people don't leave their fingerprints, etc., on the cards.
Thank you for your interest in our Christian art project.
+JMJ+ Sue & John Lincoln, Nebraska
“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.” ~ St. Pope John Paul II
I added the cards to all our outgoing Thanksgiving as a reminder of the history and importance of this important day in a world of which has secularized it as a sale day before Christmas.
I love the prayer and the art. We need to remember how grateful we all need to be even today 🙏
These cards arrived just in time for me to take them to family and friends out of town!
My grand babies handed them out at Mass and at the restaurant we went to for lunch following Mass. Folks were so happy to receive them and we felt we had blessed each and every one of them with such a beautiful prayer card! We hope you do one for Christmas as well!
Thanksgiving seems to be lost between Halloween and Christmas yet it is truly a special day. This card is perfect to add at each place setting during Thanksgiving dinner. Also a nice enclosure in Thanksgiving cards.
I just placed a second order for another hundred of these cards.
I'm going to give them out at my senior club meeting at the local Catholic Church. The meeting is right before Thanksgiving, and I'll put them with the sign in sheets and a little note to take one.
I absolutely love your cards and I share them with my 2nd grade reconciliation class. I enjoy my monthly subscription as well and it always helps me with new ideas to teach! Thank you so very much and you Will see me often!!!!!
P.S. Your prices are great too! 🤗
Rather than saving all the gift giving for Christmas, I use Thanksgiving to show appreciation for teachers and service workers. This will be added to the envelope!
I ordered a hundred of these cards and the plastic sleeves to use in various ways. Placed the order and within a few days the package arrived. The cards are very beautiful they are printed and lovely colors and both sides of the card are so well done with artwork and beautiful lettering.
I am going to give 40 of the cards to two second grade teachers at a Catholic School, 16 will go to my Bible study group, we will use about 12 at Thanksgiving for our family and I will share the others in Thanksgiving cards or just handing them to people, leaving them in public places perhaps or at the back of church.
I hope that you have something similar for Christmas