This week, the Church celebrates Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (July 14) and Saint Bonaventure (July 15). These prayers and reflections can help you include these two saints in a special way in your daily prayers.
Born in the 17th century and canonized in 2012, Saint Kateri is known as a patroness of the environment. She is the first Native American saint.
Saint Bonaventure was a friend of both Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint (King) Louis of France. Not as well-known as other Franciscan saints, Bonaventure wrote many spiritual and theological works, including the Breviloquium, the ending of which may be incorporated into your prayers.
Image credit: Kateri: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, Bonaventure: Vittore Crivelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
