BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019 FEATURED ARTICLE 1 (Feb 5): Nuns Witnessed Who Witnessed MLK’s Life and Death
Here’s the first feature article for Black History Month. Nuns who were active during the Civil Rights Movement and were with MLK both in life and death tell their story. CNA article (2018): “This Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be the first without Sister Mary Antona Ebo, the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil…
Black (And Catholic) Like Me 1: Servant of God Mother Mary Lange, A True Mother of God’s Forgotten Children (Black History Month 2019)
This is the first Black saint/holy one to be featured during this year’s celebration of Black History Month by my apostolate. Also, this is the first official installment of Black (And Catholic) Like Me an article-series that will feature a Black Catholic saint from history (or soon to be one) and tell a little about…
Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC – 3: The Great Equalizer: How the Sacraments Make Us All Equal ( For uCatholic)
To kick off this month’s celebration of Black History Month. Here’s a BHM edition of one of my article series, Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC where I feature an article that I’ve written for another platform and preview it. I wrote an article last year for uCatholic that is very fitting for this month. I drew in part upon Fr.…
Black History Month 2019 – How BLACKCATHOLIC Will Celebrate!
This is a important month to my apostolate along with November (Black Catholic History Month), and if you were around last November following my social media extensions, you saw how I showcased content special to the celebration all throughout the month culminating in the launch of this site on Nov. 25. February will be much…
Happy Black History Month from BLACKCATHOLIC!
Happy Black History Month from BLACKCATHOLIC! All-month celebration plans for the apostolate coming later today. Picture: June 21, 1964, Fr. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., singing “We Shall Overcome.” Original picture used under CC BY-SA 4.0 Original picture (The Smithsonian and National Portrait Gallery) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hesburgh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
“Black (And Catholic) Like Me” Article-Series Introduction and Black Saints Page
The Black Saints and Holy Ones page is official up and running. Above is a screen shot of it. This is a page that I will use to provide a catalogue of Catholic saints or future saints of African descent who have been a excellent example of Black holiness for the Church. Included will be…
Pictures From Retreat
Just as I posted before, I was on a semi-silent retreat with fellow 1st and 2nd Philosophy seminarians at the Saint John XXIII Pastoral Center in Charleston, West Virginia for a week. We just got back to campus today. I’m a 1st Philosophy seminarian (route to ordination: two years of philosophy studies, four years of…
On Retreat!
This past week my fellow seminarians and I have been on retreat at the Saint John XXIII Pastoral Center in West Virginia before the semester officially begins next Monday. Will post some pictures in a later post. Nice place. It’s been a semi-silent retreat, and the rector of our seminary has been leading the conferences…
Octave for Christian Unity 2019
Yesterday began what is called the Octave of Christian Unity – the set of eight days in which the Church offers up prayers with Jesus’ prayer that we “might all be one.” It runs from January 18-25, so it’s not too late to jump on it (I remembered and jumped on it today, in fact).…
Doodle From the Other Day
A doodle I made the other day on the back a church document copy.