The Hand Of God At Work: St. Kateri Tekakwitha
By JAMES MONTI Our Lord has an uncanny way of putting us precisely where we need to be, precisely when we need to be there, to accomplish His purposes for us. He often does this through seemingly insignificant incidents, or even events that seem to us sheer misfortunes.In 1675, the French Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lamberville, who was serving in the Mohawk Indian village of Caughnawaga (Gandawague), near what is now Fonda, N.Y., had good reason to believe he would be joining a fellow Jesuit at the Iroquois mission of Onondaga when, quite unexpectedly, he received his superiors’ command to remain in Caughnawaga.In fulfillment of this assignment, each day he led prayers and delivered a homily of catechetical instruction…Continue Reading