INDIAN DAY SCHOOL - REVELATIONS and HEALINGS
The Mission of Saint Francis Xavier stands in solidarity with the Mohawk Peoples of Kahnawake who are going through the process of revealing their pain and suffering experienced in the Indian Day School of Kahnawake, which was administered by the Church and the Government. This is a very painful time for many of the Mohawk Peoples of Kahnawake as they return to these painful moments that were buried in their psyche. As justice takes its course, the Church is ready to give its support to the healing process in whatever little way it can. We remain open to having an honest open discussion in an atmosphere of trust, respect and active listening as we forge a path of spiritual and moral healing for those who have been abused by the members of the Church. It is together, we can overcome the present consequences of the hurdles of the past, and look forward to path of reconciliation and peace in God - the Creator.
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Kateri Tekakwitha
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine[3][4] and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Roman Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Roman Catholicism at age nineteen, when she was renamed Kateri, baptized in honor of Saint Catherine of Siena. Refusing to marry, she left her village and moved for the remaining five years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France, now Canada.
Tekakwitha took a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24, witnesses said that minutes later her scars vanished and her face appeared radiant and beautiful. Known for her virtue of chastity and mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by some of her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church and the first to be canonized.[5]
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