A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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This past weekend we celebrated Kateri weekend. Every April there are celebration masses for Kateri Tekakwitha. She died in Kahnawake at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday of Holy week in 1680 at the age of 24. We had a mass for her at 4:00 p.m. at the St. Regis Church in Kanátakon and we attended the mass in Kahnawake on Sunday morning on April 15, 2012. At the St. Regis Church at 4:00 p.m. mass the Akwesasne Mohawk Singers sang a few Kateri Tekakwitha songs. One song is the prayer for her canonization...
Sister Kateri Mitchell spoke to the congregation in Saint Regis Church at the 10:00 a.m. mass on March 11, 2012. She was asked by Father Pastores to talk about her role in the First Class Miracle that brought Kateri Tekakwitha to the stage of Sainthood in the Catholic Church. Sister mentioned that one of today’s readings mentioned that the Church would go out to all nations and that is what is happening now with Kateri Tekakwitha being elevated to Sainthood. She is being recognized by the Universal Church. The event that happened in February 2...
Kateri Tekakwitha’s Annual Feast Day was celebrated on Palm Sunday April 17, 2011 at St. Francis Xavier Mission and Shrine of Kateri in Kahnawake. Bishop Lionel Gendron of the Diocese of Montreal celebrated the Mass. Akwesasne was well represented during the celebration: Alma Ransom did one of the readings; and Orlo Ransom and Reginald Mitchell were in the procession for the Knights of Columbus. The Mohawk Choir filled the church with their beautiful four-part harmony. The sound of their voices filling the church was one of the times when y...
I’ve had a computer for quite a few years and there are some great things about it if I can figure them out. I have to have patience when I’m using it. A few years ago when I had a part time job, my boss was in Ottawa and Judy and I were in Akwesasne. He got us on the Skype program so we could each be at home and have a meeting with him while he was in Ottawa. I followed all the directions and it wouldn’t work. I went step by step and by the end of the second or third go-round I started swearing. “Why do I have to use this blankety-blank progra...
Sometimes people don’t realize how much they are appreciated. I thought this would be a good time to say thank you to the Construction Workers we have in this community. Many of them were in New York City on 9-11. Last night I was watching Piers Morgan interviewing Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City and the topic was September ll, 2001. The Mayor was talking about 9-ll and how this was the worse day of his life. He talked of how he thought it couldn’t get any worse, then it did. When both of the buildings were down he was in the deepest des...
What a week! I started out this week mourning our losses in Akwesasne. Then I was invited to go to a conference on Aging with the St. Regis Mohawk Senior Citizens. The main speaker at the conference was Dr. Susan Wehry from Vermont and the topic was Alzheimer’s and other brain problems of the elders. What a speaker! She started off by listing the myths about the brain such as “The brain can’t make new cells.” Wrong! Then she talked about the experiments with mice, birds, animals and also humans who donate their brains to science. They are fin...
Everybody who goes to bingo has their favorite things they have to take to every game. My friend brings a colorful insulated mug and fills it with ice water to sip during the game. One day her daughter took her mug and filled it for her. Halfway through Bingo, when the ice melted and the water was almost gone she noticed something in the bottom of the mug. It was the six miniature candy bars she had stored in the mug to hide from everybody else. When we stopped laughing, we all enjoyed the treat. When the Akwesasne Senior Games are on it...
Sunday, April 18th was the feast day of Kateri Tekakwitha and this was celebrated at the 10:30 mass in Kahnawake. The Knights of Columbus, including Charles Jacobs and Orlo Ransom from Akwesasne, lead the procession. The music for the mass was especially beautiful when we heard the women who sing soprano and the men in the choir. Bishop Jacques Berthelet of the Saint Jean-Longueuil Diocese presided over the mass which included English, French readings and the twenty children who said the Our...
I saw a relative I hadn’t seen for a while and she asked me if I like to cook yet. I used to tell some horror stories about my cooking when I worked two or three jobs at a time and didn’t have much time for preparing meals. I remember one time when we were watching television and saw some poor family saying sometimes they only had cereal for supper. I said to my kids at least we never had to eat cereal for supper. One them piped up and said “Sure we did.” Of course I was outraged and said “We never did! When?!” He said, “You know, ma, whe...
The Akwesasne Senior Center will be the host of a Wii bowling tournament and I signed up for it when I saw how much fun everybody was having when I looked in. With the Wii game it was a lot of movement but without the heaviness of the bowling ball. It will be three Thursdays and Amanda Adams will have it all set up. I was at the Senior Center to attend a meeting with Tina Tarbell about the Senior Games in May. This is the tenth year and as always we listen to the comments of the participants and change a little each year. This year...
I had a dilemma when I had a cut on the top of my thumb. It just wouldn’t heal and really hurt. I finally came up with the bright idea of using crazy glue on it. That would hold it together and still cover it until it healed. Crazy glue comes in a round container containing four one-use only tubes. I punched a hole in one of the aluminum vials and used that to cover my thumb and put the small white plastic cover back on. Then later in the day I thought I’d give myself another protective coat. I got out the vial I used earlier and held...
There have been quite a few events for elders in the past week. We started out the annual Winter Carnival with the Dinner for our Elders. It is quite an event with a delicious meal and we are waited on by all these young people in uniforms. It really was a special event starting a fun filled Winter Carnival. The following week MCA’s Traditional Medicine Program held their fourth annual Healing Conference and the theme for this year was Tasera’kwiniot, “Let the light come in”. Della Adams and her team are to be congratulated for the excelle...
The Ottawa Kateri Circle had their annual conference on Victoria Day weekend at Pembroke, Ontario. The conference is held at the Marguerite Center and this year the number of participants is increasing so that some people stayed at the motels in town. They had two busloads of people from Thunder Bay and Nova Scotia They had a singing group with a lead singer who sounded like Johnny Cash and he had time in the afternoon to entertain the crowd with some of our favorite Johnny Cash songs. When they took a break the Ottawa Kateri singers took over...
