MEMORIAL OF ST KATERI TEKEWITHA, VIRGIN.
MEMORIAL OF BLESSED KATERI TEKEWITHA, VIRGIN.
THE GOODNEWS:
"Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes." (Matthew 11: 20.... 24).
Tuesday 14th July 2026, in the 14th Week in Ordinary Time.
The Church commemorates the life of St Kateri Tekekwita, fondly called the Lily of the Mohawks.
St Kateri Tekekwita (1656 - 1680). Born near New York. Daughter of a Mohawk chief. Kateri died at the age of 24.
She had great devotion to the Eucharist and Jesus Crucified. She is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" and is the patron saint of ecologists, environmentalists, and Native Americans.
I love this quote of St Kateri Tekewitha:
"WHO WILL TEACH ME WHAT IS MOST PLEASING TO GOD, THAT I MAY DO IT." (ST KATERI TEKEKWITA, LILY OF THE MOHAWKS).
In our key Scripture for today, Jesus taught that those who have received more are expected to give back more.
They are expected to produce more fruits. They should make more saints and send out more missionaries.
Chorazin and Bethsaida received more of Jesus teaching and miracles. But both cities were obstinate when it comes to belief and repentance. Their hardness of heart is caused by UNBELIEF.
Why was Jesus stern in His reproach of Chorazin and Bethsaida?
The citizens of both cities locked up their hearts in unbelief.
They were very cynical brood of vipers.
Unbelief is very dangerous. Look around the society today and see for yourself what unbelief can produce.
Where there is unbelief, there will be no repentance.
It may well be the Sin of Unbelief that make some Christian theologians like St Augustine postulate a belief in predestination.
Without repentance one cannot be saved. Unbelievers have no time for repentance. For example,
robbers who are caught red-handed on camera have sworn that they are innocent. This is the result of Unbelief. By their fruits you will know them.
Brethren, we are Chorazin. We are Bethsaida. Let us come before Jesus in humility and have our sins washed away in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The merciful love of Jesus is waiting to give us a new mind and a new heart.
"Understood what treasures of love are freely given to those who approach Me in the Sacrament of My love, My churches would be filled day and night, and unable to contain the multitudes drawn to them. But the Evil One has schemed and plotted to cover the mystery of My presence with a dark veil of neglect, of irreverence, of forgetfulness, and of unbelief. He has obscured the mystery of My real presence, and so My faithful, beginning with My priests, have walked away from Me, one after the other, even as they did when first I spoke plainly of Myself as the living Bread come down from heaven to give life to the world." (IN SINU JESU page 226).
"If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
July is The Most Precious Blood of Jesus Month.
“I adore You, O Precious Blood of Jesus, flower of creation, fruit of virginity, ineffable instrument of the Holy Spirit, and I rejoice at the thought that You came from the drop of virginal blood on which eternal Love impressed its movement; You were assumed by the Word and deified in His person. I am overcome with emotion when I think of Your passing from the Blessed Virgin’s heart into the heart of the Word, and, being vivified by the breath of the Divinity, becoming adorable because You became the Blood of God.” (St Albert the Great)."
Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ purify and heal us.
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