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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, please ask the Most Holy Trinity to always surround my family with divine love and protection. Pray today especially for R. Amen.
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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) is the first Native American to be beatified in the Catholic Church. When she was four, Tekakwitha lost her family to a smallpox outbreak; the disease scarred Tekakwitha’s face and weakened her eyesight, but she survived. She was adopted by her aunts and uncle. Growing up, Tekakwitha always remembered that her mother was a Christian. Throughout her childhood, Tekakwitha would remember the stories and the faith that her mother shared with her. When she was twenty, she was baptized and given the name Kateri—the Mohawk word for Catherine. Tekakwitha’s adopted family did not accept her new way of life; she was taunted and threatened so much by her people that she left her village in
Finish this Story……
Ellen had been sick in the hospital for days. Her husband lost his battle with cancer two years ago, and her two children had moved away since then. Since the day she blacked out at work, no one had visited her or called her until today…..
“Hi mom.”
“Son! How’s work?”
“Well, I’m not working right now.”
What?! I can’t wait for you to explain this one….”
“I will. When you’re feeling better.”
Clearly nothing could mask the tension between them.
“I don’t know….I’m so tired…..”
“I’ll let you rest then. Hey mom?”
“Yes?”
“I love you.”
And that was it. Those three heavy little words: I love you. Amazing how we can through them around so easily. Why then did they make Ellen feel instantly better? It didn’t matter that she didn’t quite recognize the voice on the other end as her son’s. It didn’t matter that hospital administration gave the caller on the other end the wrong room number…..
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