My ongoing recovery from surgery has me doing some minimal blogging and writing… I’m a little late for Katherine Drexel’s feast day, but maybe you’d still enjoy the blog post below that hopes to honor her!
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Last fall I enjoyed a marvelous visit, alongside my good friend, Lisa Hendey, to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia and to see Pope Francis. One of the bonuses of driving there was that on the way home to Boston we got to visit with our mutual friend, Barb Szyszkiewicz. Barb is a blogger at Franciscan Mom, and together with Lisa, is an editor and contributor with over 300 articles over at Catholic Mom.com. We journeyed as a threesome to the National Shrine honoring St Katharine Drexel.
Here’s a few photographic highlights: (Click on any photo to make it larger.)
Outside the chapel with Barb (l) and Lisa (r)
Chapel interior
St Katharine is buried in the crypt area of the Shrine, and there is also a small museum with artifacts from St Katharine’s life.
It was an honor to pray at St Katharine’s tomb.
Above her tomb is a lovely representation of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament being perpetually adored by angels.
The description… “she fell asleep in Christ, March 3, 1955.. in the 97th year of her life.”
“The Eucharist is the continuation of the Incarnation.
In it Jesus communicates Himself to me and to every human heart.”
St Katharine Drexel
Visit the National Shrine website.
You might also like this short video about her life…
You might enjoy this earlier Among Women podcast from 2009 in which I share Katharine’s biography. I intend to talk more about her writings and thoughts in an upcoming podcast later this week.
