Epiphany, MLK Day, and The Colored Kingdom of God
Here’s something good from the Catholic tradition that fits this week’s celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King. Whether you celebrated it on Sunday or Thursday, this year the Church celebrated Epiphany as she does each year. Though we mostly think of Epiphany dealing with the visit of the Magi to…
A Chance Encounter
Yesterday during a break in the part of our program with interfaith chaplains, I met a Black Protestant military chaplain of who told me I was the first African American dude studying for the Catholic priesthood he’s ever met! Glad God arranged things to let this encounter happen.I don’t mind being a unicorn for the…
The Mission – ALL 2022
Saw this on social media. So powerful I became Catholic just to do it, yall. This is living the Gospel God intended for His Church: prayerfully invested and active in Eucharistic and sacramental communion ordered towards daily conversion of life. See this not as a checklist but rather some of the essential actions involved in…
A Small Word For the Brewing “Liturgy Wars” – There’s People To Love On the “Other Side”
I haven’t put much of my viewpoint visible out there on social media or my site during the two revving ups last year (July 16’s Motu Proprio and last month’s Responsa Ad Dubia) of the liturgical controversies that were no doubt already present in the Church beforehand. Though, if you look close enough to the…
Happy New Year 2022!
Just wishing you all a Happy New Year 2022 from BLACKCATHOLIC! Started the year off the best way I know how – with that Holy Mass for Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, the celebration the Church has every Jan. 1. God bless you each and every day of the year. Be thankful to…
The World Has Left Us and All We Have is Jesus Now, So Keep Christmas Going!
This is what we’ve waited all Advent for! Keep Christmas going, y’all! As Catholics we know that Christmas is not just one day that came and went on Dec. 25. Christmas is a whole season in itself and it only just got started! We have only just begun our contemplation of how the Son of…
How It Started. How It’s Going: Church in My Diocese Puts Steeple and Cross Back Up After 2020 Nashville Tornado
Last year in March, just before Coronavirus shut everything down in the nation and around the world, tornados ripped through Tennessee, in particular middle of the state. I was away at seminary when one came down in north Nashville, my home town, and devastated parts of the Germantown neighborhood where a church that I have…
Hail Mary
“O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and admitted to your presence. Through…
Lady, Full and Overflowing With Grace – The Immaculate One!
“Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night—everything that is subject to the power or use of man—rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for men or for the praise…
Happy Solemnity of Christ the King!
Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit now and forever unto the ages of ages! And blessed by Jesus Christ, King and Lord of the Universe and All Creation on the Solemnity of Christ the King! Pilate said to Jesus, “Are you the King of the…