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Moving Toward Oneness Ministry

Our new multicultural ministry that fosters relationships with other parishes in our Archdiocese.

A new commandment I give you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 15:34

Moving Toward Oneness

In order to learn and grow in harmony with our multicultural brothers and sisters around the diocese, St. Patrick Church has formed the Moving Toward Oneness Ministry to experience new ways of communicating, collaborating, and sharing with others who offer different perspectives. We invite you to share in the coming year in this journey of learning, growing and moving toward oneness in the Body of Christ.

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Programs and Pastoral Letter

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Prayers and Quotes to Fire the Heart

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St. Katherine Drexel, patron saint of racial justice and philanthropists

St. Katharine Drexel, born in 1858 in Philadelphia, was raised in a life of privilege, daughter of American financier and philanthropist Francis Anthony Drexel. As a young adult, Katharine was deeply impacted by her stepmother’s long and painful battle with terminal cancer and as she traveled with her father and sisters to the western states, she was deeply impacted by the poverty of Native Americans on reservation lands. Upon her father’s death, inherited a large fortune with her two sisters. Yet young Katharine felt called to the contemplative life. The local pastor, Rev. James O’Connor (who later became bishop of Omaha), suggested that she found a new order serving Native and African Americans.


She began a vast building campaign with the founding of St. Catherine’s Boarding School for Pueblo Indians in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 1894, followed by another school, for African American girls at Rock Castle, Virginia, in 1899. She opened more schools in Arizona and Tennessee (1903) and in 1915 founded a school for African Americans that would in 1925 become Xavier University, in New Orleans, Louisiana.


She and her sisters made valiant efforts to combat racism — but did so as women of their times who did not challenge the social hierarchy or protest publicly against policies they opposed. Thus, the order did not protest Jim Crow laws in the first half of the 20th century or admit women of color to the community for its first 60 years of existence.


At the time of her death in 1955, St. Katherine Drexel had used more than $12 million of her inheritance for her charitable and apostolic missions, working in conjunction with the U.S. Indian Office. By that time, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament had grown to some 500 members in 51 convents, and they had established 49 elementary schools, 12 high schools, and Xavier University. 


Drexel was beatified in 1988 after the Vatican confirmed her first miracle, restoring a boy’s hearing. A second miracle was attributed to her in January 2000 after a young girl was cured of her deafness following prayers to Drexel and having her ears touched by some of Drexel’s possessions. In March Pope John Paul II approved Drexel for sainthood, and she was canonized in October 2000, becoming the second U.S-born saint; the first was St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, canonized in 1975.

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