A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The unseen quality of prayer: What is your spirituality? Submitted by Kanonsa In my younger days, I regularly witnessed elderly prayer leaders like Harriet Lafrance, Warisosa, and others eagerly and energetically form prayer circles to pray for a gravely sick or deceased loved one. I asked them questions about why they prayed? Harriet would say, for this person, mine are healing prayers. Later, I asked them about God’s will and how it is intertwined in life. Warisosa’s immediate reaction was to...
Vatican City - The Vatican has officially announced Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 trip to the United States. The pontiff will visit Washington, D.C. and New York City, with a Visit to the United Nations in New York. It will be Pope Benedict’s eighth apostolic journey outside Italy. The pope’s six-day trip will include an April 16 meeting with President George W. Bush at the White House, a prayer service that same day with U.S. bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and an April 17 Mass at the new Natio...
As a young girl, Kateri was known as “she who bumps into things.” Born in Auriesville, N.Y. in 1656 to a Mohawk Chief and Catholic Algonquin mother, Kateri’s cause of sainthood continues to generate a call to sanctity through prayer circles. The Akwesasne Kateri Prayer Circle recently brought their message to the Tsiionkwanonhso:te Chronic Care Facility on Cornwall Island. Circle member Terry Steele donned the garb of Tekakwitha to recite a monologue recounting her life and struggles with faith...
