I would challenge the statement that we are a country with few Black Catholics.
There are more Black Catholics (3 million) in the United States than there are Episcopalians of any stripe, it's just that they only make up a small percentage of the overall Catholic population, and many raised Catholic don't remain Catholic.
One of the ways we would be able to have more Black Catholics would be if we stopped ignoring the fact that they have greater numbers than we credit, because there are usually so few at any one single, typical parish. We need to stop perpetuating the myth of their absence, which is a form of systemic racism.
We also need to consider why the Black Catholic population is declining, which has as much to do with planned obsolescence by eugenicism, as perpetuated by Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood, as it does diabetes, and the failure for so long of the American epsicopacy to recognize the presence of Black Catholics, nonetheless meet their repeatedly stated cries for justice.
Anywho- my point is that healing starts with basic recognition...if Black Catholics were their own denomination, would we recognize their contributions to our nation as readily as we do white Episcopalians?
Excellent article especially about sister Wilhemma in Missouri. God does indeed work in mysterious ways just like the Eucharist hosts multiplying by themselves earlier in this year in the same parish that Fr Mcgivney was once pastor in Connecticut. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised as God has revealed in Scripture that His ways are far above our ways, especially in our ability to comprehend sacred events from our Human perspective. Kinda like the saying that a mathematician can no more count his way into infinity than to understand the magnificence of God Almighty. But a heart of love, faith, and trust can find its way there every time. ✨️ As for the issue of low participation of African Americans as full time Catholic parishioners, perhaps if we had a little more charismatic songs and sermons in our services would help to promote the fraternity of God's children no matter what ethnicity to dispel the ethnocentric misperceptions that never plagues the Latin American participation as active participants in catholic worship services. In fact I think they're the fastest growing segment of American worshippers, especially in the Western states as alluded to in your fine article. Africa itself is the fastest growing segment of Catholics world 🌎 wide where in some countries participation is over 90% of worshippers every week. I guess I just have to realize that we are still all branches of the same vine the good Lord Jesus, regardless of what ethnicity or geographic location.
May the Holy Spirit shine upon all of us ✨️ 🙏 now and forevermore Amen 🙏
I am delighted that you could give us an eyewitness account!
(above) "I was most astounded that as I knelt directly in front of her body, there was no odor at all of decay or decomposition."
And a nose-witness account! This is what cannot be conveyed in photos. I was reading the story of Lazarus with friends tonight (last chapter in a small-group book we were reading) and I am reminded of that now.
I would challenge the statement that we are a country with few Black Catholics.
There are more Black Catholics (3 million) in the United States than there are Episcopalians of any stripe, it's just that they only make up a small percentage of the overall Catholic population, and many raised Catholic don't remain Catholic.
One of the ways we would be able to have more Black Catholics would be if we stopped ignoring the fact that they have greater numbers than we credit, because there are usually so few at any one single, typical parish. We need to stop perpetuating the myth of their absence, which is a form of systemic racism.
We also need to consider why the Black Catholic population is declining, which has as much to do with planned obsolescence by eugenicism, as perpetuated by Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood, as it does diabetes, and the failure for so long of the American epsicopacy to recognize the presence of Black Catholics, nonetheless meet their repeatedly stated cries for justice.
Anywho- my point is that healing starts with basic recognition...if Black Catholics were their own denomination, would we recognize their contributions to our nation as readily as we do white Episcopalians?
Excellent article especially about sister Wilhemma in Missouri. God does indeed work in mysterious ways just like the Eucharist hosts multiplying by themselves earlier in this year in the same parish that Fr Mcgivney was once pastor in Connecticut. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised as God has revealed in Scripture that His ways are far above our ways, especially in our ability to comprehend sacred events from our Human perspective. Kinda like the saying that a mathematician can no more count his way into infinity than to understand the magnificence of God Almighty. But a heart of love, faith, and trust can find its way there every time. ✨️ As for the issue of low participation of African Americans as full time Catholic parishioners, perhaps if we had a little more charismatic songs and sermons in our services would help to promote the fraternity of God's children no matter what ethnicity to dispel the ethnocentric misperceptions that never plagues the Latin American participation as active participants in catholic worship services. In fact I think they're the fastest growing segment of American worshippers, especially in the Western states as alluded to in your fine article. Africa itself is the fastest growing segment of Catholics world 🌎 wide where in some countries participation is over 90% of worshippers every week. I guess I just have to realize that we are still all branches of the same vine the good Lord Jesus, regardless of what ethnicity or geographic location.
May the Holy Spirit shine upon all of us ✨️ 🙏 now and forevermore Amen 🙏
I am delighted that you could give us an eyewitness account!
(above) "I was most astounded that as I knelt directly in front of her body, there was no odor at all of decay or decomposition."
And a nose-witness account! This is what cannot be conveyed in photos. I was reading the story of Lazarus with friends tonight (last chapter in a small-group book we were reading) and I am reminded of that now.
God is good! He invites all to the table. I see his hand in many places these days. He works quietly.
Trust in God.