When I was a child and The RC Church wasn't so constipated about using "Protestant" hymns..."Now Thank We All Our God" was the traditional Hymn sung at Thanksgiving Masses. I think Thanksgiving was an optional day of observance when I was a kid. My radical, Holy-Roller, Seeing-Visions-of-the-virgin kinda Mom swears its a holy day of obligation now but I wouldn't be so sure. She swear a lot of things to be Church Law that are merely tradition or things she wishes were Church Law. She doesn't mean any harm by it...just enjoys being RIGHT about EVERYTHING.

Sometime in the late 70's the RC Church had a purge of any hymns or folk-songs they presumed to be "Too Protestant" in nature and the Folk-Masses came to an abrupt halt in our Arch-Diocese. Most of us tried to hang in there, but as the "approved" list of songs got smaller and smaller, we all eventually walked away, if not just from playing in the church but some of us from the Church itself.

"Now Thank We All Our God" got tossed along with hundreds of other swell tunes. It's shame becuase it's a perfect song for the occasion. That and "Simple Gifts."