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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Kateri Tekaqwitha
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Daniel Sargent on \nST KATERI TEKAKWITHA \n◊◊◊ \nOn the fourteenth of October\, 1682\, a Frenchman living in Canada began \na letter to a Frenchman living in France. He had seen many wonders in Canada\, \nand was therefore eager to tell about them. \nHe was a missionary\, a priest\, a Jesuit\, a certain Father Chauchetière\, now \nonly thirty-seven years old\, and who had spent seven years already among the \nIndians of Canada whom he was trying to Christianize. The great astonishment \nof his life as a missionary had not been the size of the St Lawrence River\, but the \npiety which he had found among the Indians at his St Lawrence Mission. \nHe had expected to be horrified by the Indians even though he was willing \nto give his life for them. Instead he had been edified by them. But how was he \ngoing to convince the Jesuit Superior\, to whom he was writing his letter\, of this \nIndian holiness?… He dwelt on the inconvenience of this fervor: it led the \nIndians to adopt immoderate penances\, and forced him to step in and restrain \nthem. Only grudgingly did he add\, as the sole flash of his enthusiasm\, that “They \nwould be admired in France if what they do were known there.” \n[Then] he came to what was most incredible of all: “During the past two \nyears their fervor has greatly increased since God has removed from this world \none of these devout savage women who live like nuns\, and she died with the \nreputation of sanctity. Journeys are continually made to her tomb; and the \nsavages\, following her example\, have become better Christians than they were. \nWe daily see wonders worked through her intercession. Her name was [Kateri] \nTekakwitha.”… \nTekakwitha’s ancestors were an old people. Not merely that they had had \nas many ancestors as any other person alive\, but they remembered those \nancestors. They carried the past with them in their traditions\, from generation \nto generation… The ancestors of [Tekakwitha] had been suffering and longing \nfor ages… The gaining of salvation had been their age-long preoccupation… \nIf we look at the past of [Tekakwitha’s] ancestors\, as Fr. Chauchetière did \nnot and could not\, and if we look at the story of the French missionaries\, then \nthe spiritual blossoming of this [Kateri Tekakwitha] becomes a climax of a long \ndrama. Instead of exclaiming as Chauchetière did\, “How suddenly she has \ncome\,” our sigh is\, “How long\, how long\, the world has waited!”
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