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July 12, 2020 | Page 6 WEEKLY READINGS AND OBSERVANCES Sunday, JuLY 12th Monday, JuLY 13th Tuesday, JuLY 14th Wednesday, July 15TH Thursday, July 16TH Friday, July 17TH Saturday, July 18th Readings for the Week of July 12, 2020 Is 55:10-11| Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 [Lk 8:8] Rom 8:18-23 | Mt 13:1-23 Is 1:10-17 | Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 & 23 [23b] | Mt 10:34 — 11:1 Is 7:1-9| Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8 [cf. 9d] | Mt 11:20-24 Is 10:5-7, 13b-16| Ps 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15 [14a] | Mt 11:25-27 Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19| Ps 102:13-14ab & 15, 16-18, 19-21 [20b] Mt 11:28-30 Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 | Is 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16 [cf. 17b] Mt 12:1-8 Mi 2:1-5 | Ps 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14 [12b] | Mt 12:14-21 scholarship calendar winners June 29th #086 - St. Rose - $25.00 June 30th #527- St. Rose - $25.00 July 1st #859- Alyssa Cunningham - $25.00 July 2nd #123 - Sr. Catharine Hoefer - $25.00 July 3rd #609 - St. Rose - $25.00 July 4th #166 - St. Rose - $100.00 July 5th #782 - Mark Smorol - $30.00 Sunday, July 19th Wis 12:13, 16-19| Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 [5a] Rom 8:26-27 | Mt 13:24-43 OPTIONS TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING ST. ROSE 1. MAIL envelopes to 407 S. Main Street 2. Drop off in the mailbox at the rectory 3. Give ELECTRONICALLY through your bank 4. give via paypal by clicking Here High Schoolers, are you feeling empty? We have all felt a sense of loss when it comes to community during the last few months in quarantine. The spiritual, emotional and mental stress that came with Covid-19 has left many of us empty and longing for a deeper connection to God and others. If you are feeling alone or depleted, or if you just want an evening that will revive your faith — please join us for SUSTAIN on July 19th from 4pm-10pm at Sacred Heart Church Of Cicero. After the 4pm Mass there will be various food trucks available for dinner and ice Cream, live music by THRIVE, and an opportunity for worship and Eucharistic Adoration. The keynote will be Chris Padgett, who will be giving a dynamic talk that will inspire you to connect with others and to Jesus, who is the only one who will truly keep you sustained in our faith. For registration and any additional information please contact Andrew Pugliese at Apugliese@syrdio.org.
July 12, 2020 | Page 7 Saint of the Week St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 – 1680) Born in 1656 on the very ground where the three Jesuit martyrs, two lay missionaries and one jesuit priest, shed their blood in auriesville, New york just 40 miles west of Albany, Kateri was the daughter of a Catholic Algonquin woman who had likely been captured in Canada and brought to Ossernenon. There she married the Mohawk chief, and gave birth to Ioragode (Kateri’s birth name meaning “Sunshine”) and later to a baby boy. In 1660, When she was four years old, smallpox swept the village. Her parents and brother were among the casualties, and Kateri was badly scarred and nearly blinded by the disease. To reflect her poor eyesight, Ioragode was renamed Tekakwitha, meaning “she who gropes,” “who bumps into things,” or “who puts things in order.” A new village was settled a few miles west of Ossernenon. In the devastating raid of October 1666, French troops burned the Mohawk villages in retaliation for Iroquois raids on their trade routes. Tekakwitha was ten years old and watched the fire consume everything the tribe needed for the coming winter. The Mohawks agreed to an uneasy peace. They moved to the north bank of the Mohawk River, the current site of the National Kateri Shrine in Fonda. A stipulation of the peace plan was the return of Jesuit missionaries to the Mohawk Valley. The first to arrive were welcomed into Tekakwitha’s longhouse, since her adoptive uncle was the chief. He was hostile to Christianity, in part because converts frequently migrated to live closer to the black robes near Montreal. This further diminished the population of the tribe that was already diminished by war and disease. But the humble young Tekakwitha who served them their food impressed them with her kindness and curiosity. She was attracted to the God/Man of whom they spoke. Over the next several years, she continued her many chores within the village. But she listened to their words, watched their rituals, and saw that they defended the captives being led to the stake. She had always been repulsed by torture, so these actions soothed her, and the priests’ celibacy validated her intent to remain unmarried. She pondered these things as she spent time engrossed in beadwork in her longhouse, or in the woods communing with her unseen Beloved. Tekakwitha was baptized in 1676 at age 20, and given the name Catherine, which became Kateri. Her insistence on celibacy rather than marriage created animosity among her tribesman. Who would hunt for her and feed her if she would not take a husband? How would the population endure if she refused to have children? She endured social and emotional persecution for her convictions and for her love of Jesus and the cross, until her life was threatened. She escaped to a native Christian settlement near Montreal. She spent her remaining years in prayer, penance, harsh mortifications, and charitable works. After suffering fevers and abdominal pain, she died at age 24 on Wednesday of Holy Week 1680. The facial scarring from the smallpox disappeared upon her death. Apparitions of her were soon reported, as were answered prayers and healings through her intercession. Kateri was beatified in 1980, and in 2012 was canonized St. Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American saint from what is now the United States. Source: Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine is an hour and a half away in auriesville, off of Exit 28 on the Thruway.
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