July 2025

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha whose feast we celebrate today is generally known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.” While she is a patron saint of ecology, the environment, and Native Americans, I would like to also suggest that she could be a patron of persistence. Kateri was born in 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon […]

I recently saw on Facebook a photo of a village in Portugal where the lambs are not strong enough to climb the high mountain. And so they are placed on small pouches on a donkey’s back and carried up to the green pastures to be fed. This gospel came to mind. In our Gospel reading,