The daughter of a Mohawk chief, Kateri Tekakwitha was born in present-day New York in 1656. Her mother was a Christian Algonquin who was captured in a Mohawk raid and assimilated into the Mohawk people. She survived a smallpox outbreak and a French-led raid, and was engaged to a young Iroquois boy at the age of 13. She didn’t want to marry, however, and told her priest that she had a strong aversion to marriage because she could have no spouse but Jesus. Jesuit missionaries taught her the catechism, and because of rejection by her community due to her faith, she moved to a Catholic settlement near modern-day Montreal where she could more freely pray the Rosary or pray in Eucharistic adoration.
CHALLENGE
St. Kateri Tekakwitha refused to work on Sundays, and because she didn’t work her community refused to give her food. In modern society, businesses have an incentive to be open on Sundays because people spend money on Sundays. Today, begin the process of breaking your connection to working—or encouraging work—on Sundays by reorganizing how you spend your time and your money, and return Sunday to a day free from work for everyone.
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