Giving Season 2023

This Giving Season please consider donating to St. Kateri Center of Chicago at https://givecentral.org/kateri or text KATERI to 773-918-2366 for the link.

St. Kateri Center is a ministry of St. Benedict Parish, serving Native American Catholics since 1982. It is the only Catholic Native American place for our Native American Community in Illinois. We operate solely on the funding the St. Kateri Center raises. In the spirit of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the Saint Kateri Center embodies and preserves the spiritual practices and traditional cultures of the Native people within the Catholic Church. With your generosity and continued support, the St. Kateri Center will continue, and the doors will remain open for all. Including non-natives who come, learn, pray, and experience our culture and traditions.

Miigwetch, Ahéheé, Philámayaye, Thank You!

Anishnaabemowim Virtual Classes

Please come join us virtually for Fall Anishnaabemowim classes with Helen Fuhst also well known as Helen Roy, who has 30 years of teaching the language and taught the language at University of Michigan. Wednesday Evenings for 6 weeks starting November 1st through December 6th, 2023 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM.

Please email: jroy@stbenedict.com for a zoom link with the subject "Language Class"

Stars, Stories and S'mores

Please Come Join Us with the Forrest Preserves of Cook County for “Stars, Stories and S’mores” on Saturday November 4, 2023, from 5pm to 8pm. At LaBagh Woods, Grove 2. By N. Cicero Ave and W. Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60630 (Entrance is on N. Cicero Ave). Come listen to storytelling, take a night hike, make s’mores, view stars and more. For more information, please call 773-758-8899 or email; Experience.Nature@cookcountyil.gov

Trunk and Treat

Please come join us for some spooktacular fun on Saturday October 28th, 2023 from 3pm to 4:30pm. Come dressed up in your Halloween costume.

Families are welcome to decorate your trunk and pass out treats. Please email Kim Mcmillan at kmcmillan@stbenedict.com to reserve a space.

Senior Luncheon -Halloween Party

Please Come Join Us for our Senior Luncheon Halloween Party on Thursday October 19th at Noon. Doors open at 11am. Please come dressed in your Halloween spirit and chance to win some prizes. Followed by Free Mini Prize Bingo. American Indian Health Services of Chicago will be present to do wellness checks.

St. Kateri Family Outing

Please Join Us Next Saturday October 14, 2023. To Aurora Universty-Schingoethe Center to see The exhibition, “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s

Bus Leaves St. Kateri Center at 10:30am and will leave AU at 1:30pm to come back to St. Kateri Center. Lunch will be provided and refreshments. Please RSVP and call us at 773-509-2344

Indigenous Women’s Healing Circle

Please Come Join Us for our next IWHC on Monday May 22, 2023 at 5:30pm here at the St. Kateri Center in partnership with CPS- American Indian Education Program. We welcome Prairie Rose Seminole who is Northern Cheyenne, Arikara and Seminole. She will be leading a sharing circle on building community and being a good relative. Will start by sharing a small feast together. Bring your feast bags.

Youth Mural Design Project

Next Youth Mural Design meeting will be Saturday May 13th from 11am to 2pm @ the St. Kateri Center. Lunch will be provided. Youth have decided the theme of the mural project will be “Water is Life” This mural project will be for Visionary Ventures, affordable housing project. Their art will be displayed on the fence of the development site of the first affordable housing focused for Native American families in Chicago. The original artwork will continue to be featured inside the new building once it is complete.

St. Kateri Annual Pow Wow Saturday June 3rd, 2023, will start with CPS-American Indian Education Program, Achievement Celebration at Noon lunch will be provided. Co-Sponsored by American Inidan Health Services of Chicago. Grand Entry will be at 1:00PM, will end at 5:00pm. Will be honoring all the youth who been working hard on making their first and new regalia here at the St. Kateri Center and American Indian Health Services of Chicago. An honor all the 2023 graduates in our community.

If you have a graduate in your family, Please contact Lisa Bernal at lkbernal@cps.edu to have them honored.

St. Kateri Virtual Prayer Circle

Please Join Us for our Virtual Prayer Circle VIA Zoom on Third Tuesday Evenings at 6pm, Our next one is Tuesday March 21, April 18, May 16 and June 20, 2023. t It is wonderful to be able to gather together in a virtual space to pray with one another from not only Chicagoland, we welcome everyone from all over Turtle Island. For a virtual smudge, prayer, scripture reflection with our Deacon Bill Frere. If you like to join us virtually in Zoom. Please email jroy@stbenedict.com for a ZOOM link invitation with subject “Prayer Circle”