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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
Chaplet
"Lily of the Mohawks"
Iroquois
Virgin: 1656-1680
CHAPLET OF KATERI TEKAKWITHA
A Chaplet of Prayers dedicated in honour of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks
ORDER OF RECITATION
1. Kiss the Cross and make the Sign of the Cross with it, saying,
"In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
Ask God to make Kateri a Saint, and petition her to help you in your personal needs.
2. Recite an Our Father on each of the 8 Brown Beads; a Hail Mary on each of the 8 Red Beads; and a Glory Be on each of the 8 Crystal Beads.
3. Make the Sign of the Cross as above.
EXPLANATION AND MEANING OF THIS CHAPLET
THE CROSS
The cross is of Staurolite,
nature's amazing wonder mineral found in the shape of tiny crosses
in the Blue ridge Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and New Mexico.
There is an Indian legend that on the day that Christ died on the Cross,
the woodland animals wept,
their tiny tears falling upon the earth and crystallizing into these tiny crosses.
THE 24 BEADS
Kateri, whose name means, "Putting things in order" and "moving all things before her," was 24 when she departed from this world; the beads symbolize her 24 short but fruitful years on earth.
BROWN BEADS
Earth colours are popular with Indians and brown is the predominantly colour of earth.
Kateri's moccasins in which she walked the woods distributing her handmade crosses,
were brown also.
RED BEADS
Red
[Moonstone red] is the traditional colour for love, symbolizing
God's love for this sweet
saint and the love she bore Him in the Eucharist and for His Blessed Mother.
Ask Kateri's intercession to Mary to form this love in all our hearts,
and to lead us back to Christ when we fall away.
CRYSTAL BEADS
See the legend above.
May the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
through Kateri's prayers,
convert the world to the One True God
and His One True Church.
