Kateri Tekakwitha: From October 14, 1939

Walter J. OngOctober 14, 1939

Where earth goes to water.
The dark young birches cow—
Yet brown and dapple, daughter.
No silver now.

Down, down the white trees, felted
Now fast into the strand.
And the sun's green leaf-gold, melted.
Becomes thin sand.

Look! One sapling thrusts its arm, now paling fawn.
Out of the coal bed, Tekakwitha, into the new blue dawn.

Walter J. Ong

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Paul Feeley

10 years 11 months ago

Horrible picture.

Mary Ziegenhagen

10 years 11 months ago

My affection for this saint rests almost entirely on my experience with a Franciscan Sister who chose the name. Sister Kateri m OSF, was a nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Breckenridge, Minnesota during the 1950s. She set an fine example for young women studying in that hospital's schools of nursing, medical records and x-ray technology. We valued her instruction, friendship, kindness, and lively sense of humor. I still think she was a saint and so now am glad the "lily of the Mohawks" is making her way through Vatican corridors of judgment and recognition of her holiness.

Mary Sweeney

10 years 11 months ago

I would have gone with this painting which is going to be featured at the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs’ October 21 Mass and ceremony of her canonization.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/19/kateri-tekakwitha-portrait-will-be-featured-at-shrine-of-our-lady-of-martyrs-during-canonization-140748

MICHAEL BARRETT MR

10 years 10 months ago

This poem reads like one of Gerard Manley Hopkins'!

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