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Healing Weekend with Mass on Sunday, February 11th at 1:00 pm.

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The Marriage Enrichment Team is sponsoring a ‘Date Night’ on Saturday, February 11th from 5:45-10 pm.  Couples are asked to stop by the Narthex to pick up a date night handout to use as a topic of conversation.  Those couples that participate will be entered in a drawing for a $25 Scrip Certificate.   For couples with small children, babysitting will be provided in the Preschool Room.  Please RSVP by Thursday, February 9th to Blaine and Gail Johs (402-438-6684 or bgjohs@inebraska.com) if you need babysitting.

KATERI TEKAKWITHA: FIRST NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN SAINT

VATICAN CITY, 20 DEC 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father yesterday signed decrees acknowledging miracles attributed to the intervention of seven blessed (four women and three men) who will shortly be canonized. One of the new blessed is Kateri Tekakwitha, the first native North American to be raised to the glory of the altars.

 Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in Ossernenon (present-day Auriesville, U.S.A.). Her father was a Mohawk chief and her mother a Roman Catholic Algonquian who had been educated by French missionaries. At the age of four she lost her family in a smallpox epidemic which also left her disfigured and with poor eyesight. Adopted by a relative, the chief of neighboring clan, she continued to nurture an interest in Christianity and was baptized at the age of 20.

  The members of her tribe did not understand her new religious affiliation and she was marginalized, practicing physical mortification as a path of sanctity and praying for the conversion of her relatives. Having suffered persecutions which put her life at risk, she was forced to flee to a native American Christian community in Kahnawake, Quebec where she made a vow of chastity and lived a life dedicated to prayer, penance, and care for the sick and elderly. She died in 1680 at the age of 24. Her last words were: "Jesus, I love you". According to tradition, Kateri's scars disappeared after her death to reveal a woman of great beauty, and numerous sick people who participated in her funeral were miraculously healed.

  The process of canonization began in 1884. She was declared venerable by Pius XII in 1943 and beatified by John Paul II in 1980. As the first native North American to be beatified she occupies a special place in the devotion of her people. Her feast day falls on 14 July.

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