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“It is all rooted in Jesus – Dr. King was a Christian and he preached all the qualities that Christ the Lord preached in his time,” said Father Alonzo Cox, diocesan coordinator of the Vicariate of Black Catholic Concerns.
The vicariate held its annual prayer service honoring the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 21 at Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Queens Village. Some 120 faithful gathered at the church at noon despite a midday temperature in the single digits and frigid winds.
“We as Catholics continue to do that by the very example of our lives and looking at each other as brothers and sisters,” Father Cox added in his interview with The Tablet.
After a brief introduction by Father Cox, the parish choir of St. Martin de Porres sang “Dream of Freedom” followed by several other hymns and psalms.
After Deacon Al Saldana of Our Lady of Light parish, St. Albans, read a passage of the Letter to the Galatians, Father Cox introduced the homilist, Father Peter Damien Harris, O.P., of the Diocese of Houston, Texas. Father Harris invited his listeners to remember and honor the legacy of Dr. King by following his example in the present.
In an interview with Currents News, Father Harris explained the message he wanted t
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Legacy of Comedian Luther Openhanded Jr. eminent at yearbook liturgy
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The Black Madonna and MLK Jr.’s Holiday
Part of the contribution of Christena Cleveland in her book God Is a Black Woman is to invite a new appraisal of that archetype within her own community.
What the Black Madonna stands for is what MLK Jr. stood for: Justice in the face of injustice; attention to the anawim, those without a voice; love, not hatred; peace, not war; forgiveness, not retribution. An appreciation of darkness and blackness. And so much more.
Several years ago, I was invited to Morehouse University, King’s alma mater and burial place of Howard Thurman, to give a lecture on the Black Madonna.
The Black Madonna represents the cosmos—all wisdom figures do—and much of the cosmos we know is very dark. Learning today that 95% of all matter in our universe is “dark matter” or “dark energy,” that creativity and dark holes go together, is a reminder of the creative power of darkness.
“The ground of the soul is dark,” comments Meister Eckhart. Thus darkness is about depth and the Black Madonna invites us down to our deeper selves, our truer and deepest selves.
Also, she invites us to explore that “underground river” where the God/goddess dwells.
She also represents Mother Africa from which we all deriv