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Email a FriendPosted by Bonnie Rodgers on Sunday, Feb 19, 2012 10:34 AM (EDT):
At the public consistory yesterday B16 announced that Blessed Kateri will be canonized on 10/21/12 . Blessings to this first Native American saint!
Kateri Tekakwitha
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Monday, July 14, 2008 9:57 AM
With an oldest daughter named for Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a question I hear from readers quite often is, “How do you pronounce it?”
Well, if you do a little research, you’ll find that the officially correct pronunciation is “Gah-deh-lee Deh-gah-quee-tah.”
But we don’t say that. We pronounce our daughter’s name “KAY-tuh-ree.” But she also answers to other common pronunciations such as “kuh-TEER-ee,” “kuh-TARE-ee,” and “KAT-uh-ree.”
However you say it, if you aren’t familiar with the inspiring story of this great woman of God (and one of the patron saints of World Youth Day!), her feast day is the perfect time to learn more. You can check out the resources and ideas at CatholicCulture.org and pray the official prayer for her canonization (she was beatified in 1980).
O God, who, among the many marvels of Your Grace in the New World, did cause to blossom on the banks of the Mohawk and of the St. Lawrence, the pure and tender Lily, Kateri Tekakwitha, grant we beseech You, the favor we beg through her intercession, that this Young Lover of Jesus and of His Cross may soon be counted among the Saints of Holy Mother Church, and that our hearts may be enkindled with a stronger desire to imitate her innocence and faith. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us.
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