Kateri TV
Focus on Building Bridges Project, Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, Assembly of Western Catholic Bishops
in honour of the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha
(2010-2012)

Producer: Building Bridges Project / Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, Assembly of Western Catholic Bishops (AWCB)

Medicine Wheel Healing: How It Starts

The story of how one Canadian Aboriginal elder found her way to personal healing and how she passes her knowledge on to others.

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Medicine Wheel and Christian Faith

Making one's Catholic faith an expression of one's ancient roots is in theological terms a process of interculturation. The Church enriches and transforms every community it reaches and, in return, the original culture of those peoples ends up enriching the Church as a whole.

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Medicine Wheel Spirituality: A Gift to the Church

How Church leaders encourage Aboriginal Catholics to practice their faith in ways true to their traditional cultures. How all this contributes to the Church as a whole.

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Medicine Wheel: A Way of Life

Explaining the medicine wheel, how it looks at physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual aspects of life and how to keep all of it in balance.

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Medicine Wheel Healing: How We Teach

Learning to teach the Aboriginal way begins with understanding that the teacher is also a learner and the learning is for life, not just the lesson of the day.

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Medicine Wheel: Healing and Reconciliation as Social Justice

Sr. Priscilla Solomon explores how the aboriginal sense of social justice begins with understanding the need for right relationships -- in families, communities and country.

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Medicine Wheel as Pastoral Ministry

Exploring how The Building Bridges Project sponsored by Western Assembly of Catholic Bishops is only the latest of Canadian Church initiatives to encourage Church First Nations, Inuit and Metis membership.

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Medicine Wheel: Reconciliation

For Catholics, both Aboriginal and non-aboriginal, who have experienced the sweat lodge, it, brings many new dimensions to the meaning of the sacrament of reconciliation.

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Medicine Wheel Healing: Community Healing

Aboriginal healing centres such as Pound maker Lodge in Alberta pay special attention to the idea of a community healing circle, and at the centre of it, a sense of the sacred, produced and held together by the people who make up the circle.

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Medicine Wheel: Healing of Addictions

The difficult journey into addiction and back to normal productive life is a common story throughout North America, for both native, and non-native people. But Canadian Aboriginal Catholics are finding new help in the old traditions.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of Hope

In 1531, Mary appeared to Mexican Aztec peasant Juan Diego (now a Saint) while on his way to Church. This began the 500-year-old Aboriginal Catholic devotion to our Mother of Guadalupe.

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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha: A Healer’s Saint

Kateri Tekakwitha is a Saint to pray to for guidance in all aspects of life. She also inspires Catholic Aboriginals to combine their cultural backgrounds with their faith practice.

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