Blog Post 1/17/2022 – Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr

 

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr

“Darkness cannot drive our darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive our hate; only love can do that.”  [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]. Today in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. each one of us should bring the light & love of Jesus to each person we meet.

Martin Luther King, also, said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”   

 

Let’s place on our prayer list racial justice in the United States and that these six Black Americans six become Saints. https://www.usccb.org/committees/african-american-affairs/road-sainthood-leaders-african-descent:

Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853)

Henriette Delille, S.S.F. (1812-62)

Augustus Tolton (1854-97)

Mary Elizabeth Lange, O.S.P. (circa 1784-1882)

Julia Greeley (between 1833 and 1848-1918)

Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A. (1937-90)

 

America Magazine offers several articles on the canonization efforts on behalf of these candidates for sainthood.  And for an excellent introduction to the experience of Black American Catholics read: The Church and the Racial Divide: Reflections of an African American Catholic Bishop by Bishop Edward Braxton.

 

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us.

St. Francis de Sales, pray for us.

May God Be Praised and your day be Blessed.