Happy Black History Month 2022!
Happy Black History Month from BLACKCATHOLIC! It is February, also celebrated in the US (and Canada, too) as Black History Month! BHM is dedicated to the celebration of African Americans, our history, our community, our leaders, culture, and achievements. It also celebrates how African American history is central in the history of the United States.…
“BLACKCATHOLIC Fervorinos 3: Christmas Happens in Real Life Again at Every Mass” Video Transcript
Here’s another late post of the transcript for one of my BLACKCATHOLIC Fervorinos videos. This one was posted last month on my social media extensions. Luckily, this is the last one, so I am all caught up! Praise God on that one. The following is an approximate transcript of my “BLACKCATHOLIC Fervorinos 3: Christmas Happens…
“BLACKCATHOLIC Fervorinos 2: It’s Time to Start Growing!” Video Transcript
I know this is loooong time coming but it never left my mind to post up the video transcript for BLACKCATHOLIC Fevorino 2: t’s Time to Start Growing!” video I did back in June of last year. I will link it on the video’s page on my Facebook extension. The following is an approximate transcript…
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…
His Birth, Our Cross: Why Martyrs’ Blood Right After Christmas Day? (Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC #6 – For Laudare)
Prod. by BLACKCATHOLIC series synopsis: I write for other Catholic platforms too. When I have articles published elsewhere I will have some of them previewed here and will provide a link to the full article on the original site of the post. Check out more posts from of this article-series here. The following is a January 2018…