July 14 - Prayer to St. Kateri Tekakwitha

O wise virgin so willing to leave your people behind to wed the only One who could win your heart, the Lord Jesus Christ, you were not swayed by punishment or persecution to renounce Him whom you loved but remained humble and diligent in your chastity and poverty and penance, sleeping on thorny mats for your Bridegroom and your persecutors – pray we too will be led into the desert, into the wilderness where God speaks, that we, too, might be espoused to Him and wait patiently for His coming, when all our scarred faces will be transformed as yours by His glory. Pray every tribe and tongue and nation will come in innocence before the Lord and so be adopted as sons and daughters of the great King.