Meditation Garden of Truth & Reconciliation featured at national Native American-Catholic conference

Deacon Larry M. Deschaine, Ph.D., recently gave the keynote address at the 85th Annual National Tekakwitha Conference, Raleigh, NC. The conference explores on the connection of the Native American and Catholic communities. Deacon Deschaine, a permanent deacon at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Edgefield, is of Native Catholic family ancestry and is a scholar in the field. He has also been involved in the creation of Mepkin’s Meditation Garden.

His address featured the garden prominently. Read part of the address about the Garden and learn more about Native American and Catholic Spirituality.

If you have not visited the garden, it is located just outside the entrance to the Laurens’ Cemetery at Mepkin. Click Here to find out more.