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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Kateri Tekakwitha
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRGINITY OF \nKATERI TEKAKWITHA \nFrom the writings of Fr Francis Xavier Weiser \n◊◊◊ \nTekakwitha was seventeen and still without a boyfriend to whom\, like the \nother Indian girls\, she might have given her love and affection. In her \nsurroundings this was unusual\, for the Indian girls started quite early “playing \nthe field.” Most of them married at the age of eighteen or nineteen. \nDespite the urgings of her aunts she refused to meet the young men of the \nvillage or dance with them. Was it natural shyness\, due to her weak sight and \nher pockmarked face? In any case\, she had no inclination to fall in love. \nSomething deep down in her soul seemed to hold her back with unexplainable\, \nquiet force. She was a normal happy girl and knew how natural it was for a \nyoung Indian maiden to find\, as soon as possible\, a good hunter or warrior who \nwould take her as co-worker and companion in the heavy toil that marriage \nimposed on husband and wife. The family\, the village\, the whole tribe took it for \ngranted that girls should enter an early marriage and assume the many duties of \ntheir calling. \nShe had not the slightest idea of celibate life among women\, nor had she \never seen or heard anything concerning the voluntary state of virginity such as \nthe Catholic nuns observed it. The Mohawks knew\, of course\, that the black- \nrobes lived without marriage and woman’s love for the sake of their priestly \nvocation; this was for them a source of constant marvel and admiration. They \ndid not know\, however\, that such an ideal was also practiced by women. Even \nthe Christian Indians had no inkling of it\, for the Jesuits never mentioned this \nfact; it was a hard enough task for them to raise their spiritual children to the \nlevel of a sound\, morally good married life according to the demands of the \nsacrament of matrimony. \nThus\, Tekakwitha\, who had no instruction at all in Christianity\, followed \nthe path of a splendid Christian ideal without being aware of it. All she knew \nwas that an inner force\, a strange spirit in the depth of her heart drove her with \nconstant\, quiet urgings to keep herself free from the bonds of human love that \nled to marriage. Gladly and willingly she obeyed her parents in everything; but \non this point she remained adamant and rather followed the guidance of that \nmysterious voice in her soul. Had she only known that it was the grace of…the \ntrue God\, directing her on this path\, how happy would she have been!
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