We are enjoying celebrating in simple ways the feast day of St Kateri Tekakwitha (1656)... the first native American to be beatified - she died at the age of 24. The two little girls have braids in their hair and have been making bead necklaces for others here...now there is a plan to make necklaces that we will all wear on Saturday to little Dave's 3rd birthday!
"""Kateri was born near the town of Auriesville, New York, in the year 1656, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was four years old when her mother died of smallpox. The disease also attacked Kateri and transfigured her face. She was adopted by her two aunts and an uncle. Kateri became converted as a teenager. She was baptized at the age of twenty and incurred the great hostility of her tribe. Although she had to suffer greatly for her Faith, she remained firm in it. Kateri went to the new Christian colony of Indians in Canada. Here she lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices, and care for the sick and aged. Every morning, even in bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. She was devoted to the Eucharist and to Jesus Crucified. She died on April 17, 1680 at the age of twenty-four. She is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks". Devotion to Kateri is responsible for establishing Native American ministries in Catholic Churches all over the United States and Canada. Kateri was declared venerable by the Catholic Church in 1943 and she was Beatified in 1980. Work is currently underway to have her Canonized by the Church. Hundreds of thousands have visited shrines to Kateri erected at both St. Francis Xavier and Caughnawaga and at her birth place at Auriesville, New York. Pilgrimages at these sites continue today. "http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=154
Reading about Blessed Kateri with baby Dave - the younger of the two Daves - here miraculously from Missouri with mom, Maria, and sister! Then Nancy and baby Gus joined us and we read this amazing Gospel for today: Jesus speaks to us: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdene, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." Mt 11: 28-30
Ruth crocheting with her boys snuggled in...
Finger appeared in David's ear... 
The amazing rock we found on the beach... actually it was one that my brother, Dan, the artist,found and took the shape and went with it... we loved it and had to put it out with the lake behind it...
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