Black Catholic History Timeline – Black History Month 2021
Here’s a good timeline of Black Catholics throughout US history, a great part of Black history. Composed by Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB. Some highlights: 1565-1899: St. Augustine, FloridaBlacks, both slave and free, help to found this oldest town in the United States. In 1693 Spain offers freedom in Florida to slaves who convert to Catholicism.” 1829:…
Servant of God Thea Bowman Info Graphic – Black Catholic History Month 2021
This is a great little info graphic I found on FB to learn more about Servant of God Thea Bowman. I have covered her on my site before. Check out my page about Bowman and learn even more! Image: Credit to original creator. Fair Use
Pray For These New Candidates for Holy Orders!
This past Thursday we had a very important and awesome development in the journeys of some of the seminarians here towards the priesthood. A good number of guys were admitted to Candidacy! Though he is still not a cleric, these man take on a canonical status, as Candidacy is mentioned in the Code of Canon…
Tonight Black Catholics and I Come Together to Talk On Black Saints and Representation. Also “Black Version of Catholicism?”
Several weeks ago I participated in a live stream discussion entitled “Is There A Black Version of Catholicism?” hosted by David L. Gray and the Traditional Black Catholic Forum Facebook group. In addition to the main question that gave our discussion its title and direction, we also talked about many aspects of Black Catholic faith,…
Black Catholic Saint Feast Day: St. Martin de Porres (Nov 3) – Black Catholic History Month 2021
The Church celebrates a prominent figure in Black Catholic history today – St. Martin de Porres! If you know his story and if you know about the story of Black people across the Americas, then you would also know how so much of his life parallels the Black experience in the history of not just…
Happy Black Catholic History Month 2021!
And with the start of November we enter into that glorious month celebrated as Black Catholic History Month! My apostolate annually celebrates this good month to share even more so the history of Black Catholics in both American history and in world history. Happy 31th Anniversary to Black Catholic History Month; it began in 1990.…
When Things Are Sporadic A Busy Seminarian Is A Work! But Here’s Some Things In the Meantime…
I want to take this brief moment to just extend a huge thank you and my appreciation for all of you who follow my BLACKCATHOLIC apostolate through my website and social media extensions, especially all newer followers! But also, particularly for newer followers, I also want to say at times I may tend to be…
National Black Catholic History Month Novena Heads Up!
Big news! We have welcomed in October the past few days, but that only means that we are only one more month away from National Black Catholic History Month in November! And you know my apostolate with celebrate. So, consider this is a heads up. And leading into NBCHM, later this month you can begin…
A Great Start To Respect Life Month!
Happy Respect Life Sunday! October is National Respect Life Month, and the guys and I at the seminary kicked it off right yesterday. A group of us took up our rosaries and made a trip over across state lines to Louisville to the abortion clinic there and engaged in spiritual combat against the evil that…
A Black Catholic Parish’s Feast Day – St. Vincent de Paul’s in My Home Town
Happy Feast Day to the only surviving historically Black Catholic parish in my home diocese of Nashville, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church! Today is the feast day of 17th century priest, St. Vincent de Paul, which the universal Church celebrates as a memorial, but for St. Vincent’s it’s a full-on solemnity. Check out these…