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Quarterly Or and Vert, a Cross flory Vert and Or, in dexter chief, an Christogram IHS over
a Sunburst Sable, in sinister base, an open Bible Sable with Greek letters Alpha Omega, in sinister chief, a Fleur de Lis Argent, in dexter base, a Sea Turtle tergiant Argent
Explanation of the Coat of Arms of Lien Doan Kateri Tekakwitha
Or represents Faith and generosity. Vert represents Hope and nature.
The Flory Cross represents the universal symbol of Christianity
Christogram IHS over the Eucharistic sun, borrowed from the emblem of the Jesuits. It was Fr. Jacques de Lamberville, S.J., a Jesuit priest, who guided Kateri to the faith. Hundreds of years later, VEYM embraces Ignatian spirituality in our activities. Overall, the Eucharist is the central guiding light of the VEYM.
The open Bible represents the story of God’s Love that St. Kateri abided to in her last breath “Jesus, I love you!”
The Fleur de Lis: St. Kateri, patroness of the Church in Canada is also known as Lily of the Mohawks. The lily represents her virginity and total surrender to our Lord.
The Sea Turtle: The turtle symbolizes a life of patience and resilience in living daily life in Christ. Patience is one of the qualities of love (1Cor 13:1) and love is the greatest of the theological virtues (13:13). Turtle also represents the environment that we're called to be a good steward of God's creation (Laudato Si 236). St. Kateri is patron of ecology and environment, she belonged to the turtle clan.
The Motto: Caritas Omnia Sustinet in Latin means Love Endures All Things.
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Today is the feast of St. #Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lilly of the Mohawks!
In 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha known as “Lily of the #Mohawks” was born of an #Algonquin mother and Mohawk father in Ossernenon in the Mohawk Valley, now known as Auriesville, New York. Kateri was four years old when the horrible European disease of smallpox devastated her village. Many perished along with Kateri’s parents and younger brother. She survived the deadly disease but her eyesight was greatly affected and her face ravaged with smallpox scars.
Because of Kateri’s near blindness, she held her hands in front of her to feel her way along and protect herself from injury. It was from this characteristic she was renamed Tekakwitha or “She moves things”.
In 1667, 11 year old Kateri Tekakwitha meets the #Jesuit Missionaries in her uncle’s cabin. By this time the village had moved to the north side of the Mohawk River to Caughnawaga, now known as Fonda New York. As a young girl, she helped with the meals, collected berries from the woods, made baskets, did beadwork and strung the wampums. With the coming of the missionaries Kateri found comfort and understanding of her situation in #Christianity and began her dialogue with Father James de Lamberville and expressed the ardent desire for Baptism in 1666, and was subsequently baptized in 1676 at the age of 20.
In 1677, Kateri Tekakwitha traveled from the Mohawk valley to the north eastern part of the Territory to the village of #Kahnawake and the Mission of Saint Francis Xavier on the shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Father de Lamberville had given her a letter for the Superior of the Mission. The words of this letter were, "I ask you to please take charge of directing her; it is a treasure which we are giving you. Guard it well and make it bear fruit for the glory of God and the salvation of a soul which is certainly very dear to Him." A few months after her arrival, she received her First Holy Communion on Christmas Day at the age of 21.
In 1680 with her health failing, she became gravely ill and on April 17, 1680, 24 year old Kateri Tekakwitha died. Soon after her death and because of her faith in Christ, her scared face was restored to its former beauty and softness. She was buried in a wooden coffin next to the wooden cross where she prayed on the banks of the great river.
Saint Kateri, pray for us!
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Fill our hearts, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, with your same love for Jesus and grant us your strength and courage to become one like you in Heaven. Amen.
Prayer from the National Shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha in Canada www.nationalsaintkaterishrine.ca
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“Urbi et Orbi” Blessing
My thoughts go especially to the victims of the many conflicts worldwide: Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon, Western Balkans Region, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Haiti, Myanmar, Sudan, Sahel, Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique. Let us pray for all those who have lost their lives and implore the repentance and conversion of the perpetrators of those crimes. May the light of the resurrection illumine our minds and convert our hearts, and make us aware of the value of every human life, which must be welcomed, protected and loved.
Pope Francis
Year of Prayer
The coming months will lead us to the opening of the Holy Door, with which we will begin the Jubilee. I ask you to intensify your prayer to prepare us to live well this event of grace, and to experience the strength of God’s hope. Therefore, today we begin the Year of Prayer; that is, a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, and in the world.
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Monthly Prayer For the Role of Women
Lord Jesus, you who have given us Mary as our Mother: today I want to be grateful, with the whole Church, for all women: mothers, daughters, sisters, wives; for the consecrated women, for women who work professionally… for all of them, in all the beauty and value of their femininity.
But I cannot forget the problem of discrimination women often experience That is why I ask You that every person, particularly, women, – who are more easily subject to violence and abuse- may be respected in their dignity and in their fundamental rights. Help me to make heard the voices of women who are victims of abuse and exploitation, marginalization and undue pressures and to speak out forcefully against the injustices to which they are subjected.
May we make room, Lord, for their actions, and orient ourselves to the protection of life in every state, in every age and in every condition, and that we may value women’s undeniable and unique contribution to the common good. And at this time, when humanity is experiencing such profound changes, may women assist mankind from degenerating. Amen.
Monthly Prayer For the martyrs of our day, witnesses to Christ
Good and Loving Father,
Because we have been saved by your Son Jesus, the deceiver and father of lies hates us and stirs up persecution that, from the time of Jesus and of the early Church, continues to this day. The martyrs have had the grace to confess Jesus to the end, unto death. They suffer, they give their lives, and we receive God’s blessing for their witness.
May the memory of these ancient and recent heroic witnesses confirm us, O Lord, in the awareness that the Church is Church due to the sacrifice of martyrs. We pray to you today for the new hidden martyrs, those men and women faithful to the gentle power of love, to the voice of the Holy Spirit, who in their daily lives seek to help their brothers and sisters and to love God without reservation.
The Church needs those who have the courage to accept the grace to be witnesses to the end, even unto death. They are the living blood of the Church, they are the witnesses who lead the Church forward; those who attest that Jesus is Risen, that He lives. May we learn through their coherence of life that with the strength of love, with meekness, we can fight against arrogance, violence and war. and with patience we can achieve peace.
Amen
Monthly Prayer For the terminally ill
Lord Jesus, who through the parable of the Good Samaritan taught us to take care of those who suffer: When authentic values and the duties of human and Christian solidarity and fraternity have been lost and life is valued only for its efficiency and usefulness, to the point of considering discarded or unworthy lives those that do not meet this criteria, we ask you that we may always know how to recognize the intangible value of human life and its dignity in every situation, even in precariousness and fragility.
Transform the gaze of our heart, so that compassion may never be lacking in it, so that we learn to be moved, to look and to get involved in what we observe, to stop and take care of what is happening, without passing by.
We ask that the terminally ill shall be always accompanied by qualified medical, psychological and spiritual support and that they always have someone close to them who looks them in the eye, who holds their hand, who shows them tenderness and cares for them, so that they can live with dignity, and comforted by the closeness of their loved ones, the final phase of their earthly life.
Amen.
In the Midst of Fatima: An Expression of Church Universal
As I head off to my Pilgrimage and Journeying ‘experiment’ starting in Ponte de Barca, I reflect on the whirlwind of activities that has happened that past couple of days. In particular, I reflect on my experiences of my pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima. Fatima is a place … Read moreIn the Midst of Fatima: An Expression of Church Universal