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Albuquerque's African American Catholic Albuquerque’s African American Catholic Community “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Frederick Douglass October 2020 Volume 28, Issue 5 General Information LITURGY FOR OCTOBER 25, 2020 The next African American Catholic Community (30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME) (AACC) mass will be held on October 25, 2020, 12:00 p.m., at St. Joseph’s on the Rio Grande First Reading: Exodus 22:20-26 [Kindness to Catholic Church, located at 5901 Saint Joseph’s Others] Dr. NW (1 block west of Coors and St. Joseph). At The Lord warns his people not to oppress this mass we celebrate The 30th Sunday foreigners nor to harm widows or in Ordinary Time. Our celebrant is the orphans. Consideration for the poor and Reverent Benjamin Onwumelu, pastor of needy should be a prime concern. Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the AACC Spiritual Director. Please prepare Second Reading: 1 Thes 1:5c-10 for the upcoming mass by reviewing the [Imitating Christ] liturgy for this mass. You received the word of the Lord in Covid-19 spite of great hardships. You then became model The Pandemic, resulting from the Coronavirus, is Christians for your neighbors. You turned from alive and well. This mass will adhere to all the idols to worship the true God. Archdiocese and State protocols associated with Covid-19. Please view the information on page 2. Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40 [The Greatest Commandments] Jesus tells the scholar of the law that the greatest of The Mission Statement all the commandments is love - to love god above In the context of our multicultural church, all else and your neighbor as yourself. This sums we support and reinforce the African Ameri- up the whole law. can Catholic family and individuals. We in- vite, challenge and develop an appreciation “ You shall love the Lord, of our African American culture through lit- urgy, social, spiritual and educational pro- your God, with all you heart, grams. We pray that our culture will en- with all your soul, and with hance the universality of the Church and the all your mind. You shall love cause of evangelization. your neighbor as yourself. ” page 2 Albuquerque’s African American Catholic Community October 2020 Mass & Covid-19 Protocols St. Martin de Porres (1579 - 1639) St Joseph on the Rio Grande Church follows the Lima, Peru guidelines to mitigate the COVID Pandemic as outlined in the Directives given by the Archdio- St. Martin de Porres was cese of Santa Fe dated May 14, 2020. Here are a born at Lima, Peru, in few that emphasize those guidelines: 1579. His father was a Spanish gentleman and his Face Masks are required to enter the facility mother a colored freed- No congregating or socializing before or after woman from Panama. At mass. fifteen, he became a lay No singing during mass brother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent Sit in designated areas (those in the same his whole life there-as a barber, farm laborer, al- household can sit together but limited) moner, and infirmarian among other things. Regular liturgy (omission of offertory, sign of Martin had a great desire to go off to some for- peace and processions) eign mission and thus earn the palm of martyrdom. Eucharist follows the conclusion of mass However, since this was not possible, he made a Communicants receive host in their hand, and martyr out of his body, devoting himself to cease- steps aside prior to lifting mask for consuming less and severe penances. In turn, God endowed and then exit the building immediately him with many graces and wondrous gifts, such as, No after-Mass assemblies. People encouraged aerial flights and bilocation. to depart immediately after Mass St. Martin's love was all-embracing, shown equally to humans and to animals, including ver- Also, please note that AACC will min, and he maintained a cats and dogs hospital at have a designated offering basket as his sister's house. He also possessed spiritual wis- you enter the church. Your donation dom, demonstrated in his solving his sister's mar- will be much appreciated. riage problems, raising a dowry for his niece in- side of three day's time, and resolving theological AACC On Line Giving Page problems for the learned of his Order and for bish- Anne Avellone, Director, Of- ops. fice of Social Justice and Re- In January of 1639, when Martin was 60-years- spect Life, and Elizabeth old, he became very ill with chills, fevers and Dominick, Stewardship Office, tremors causing him agonizing pain. He would ex- both of the Archdiocese of Santa perience almost a year full of illness until he Fe, have activated an AACC On passed away on November 3, 1639. By the time he Line Giving Page. That’s right; died, he was widely known and accepted. Talks of One can donate electronically his miracles in medicine and caring for the sick and still have the option of writ- were everywhere. After his death, the miracles re- ing a check when donating to the ceived when he was invoked in such greatness that AACC or the AACC Scholar- when he was exhumed 25 years later, his body ex- ship Fund. What a wonderful haled a splendid fragrance and he was still intact. way to combat the effects of not St. Martin de Porres was beatified by Pope Greg- being able to meet because of ory XVI on October 29, 1837 and canonized by the Covid Pandemic. Pope John XXIII on May 6, 1962. The website for this easy to use site is: He has become the patron saint of people of https://archdiocesesantafegiving.org/AACC mixed race, innkeepers, barbers, public health If you have any questions please call 505-836- workers and more. 3626 His feast day is November 3. Albuquerque’s African American Catholic Community page 3 Fr. Augustus Tolton Declared “Venerable” Prayer for Venerable Augustus Tolton By Veronica Lewis of the African American Catholic Community O God, we give you thanks for your servant and priest, Father Augustus Tolton, who labored The Vatican recognized Fr. among us in times of contradiction, times that Augustus (Augustine) Tol- were both beautiful and paradoxical. His ministry ton’s “heroic virtues” on June helped lay the foundation for a truly Catholic 12, 2019 by declaring him gathering in faith in our time. We stand in the “venerable”—one step closer shadow of his ministry. May his life continue to to sainthood. Fr. Tolton was inspire us and imbue us with that confidence and the first Catholic priest in the hope that will forge a new evangelization for the U.S. publicly known to be Church we love. Black. Augustus, born a slave in Missouri in 1854, es- Father in Heaven, Father Tolton’s suffering ser- caped by crossing the Mississippi River into Illi- vice sheds light upon our sorrows; we see them nois during the Civil War. In his youth, his slave through the prism of your Son’s passion and master had seen to his Catholic education and Au- death. If it be your Will, O God, glorify your ser- gustus felt a calling to the priesthood. When U.S. vant, Father Tolton, by granting the favor I now seminaries refused him admission because of his request through his intercession (mention your race, Augustus studied and was ordained in Rome request) so that all may know the goodness of this in 1886. Upon returning to the U.S., Fr. Tolton priest whose memory looms large in the Church was assigned to a church in Quincy, Illinois. he loved. There he faced great racial hostility even to the point that a white priest in the parish convinced Complete what you have begun in us that we the bishop to bar Fr. Tolton from ministering to might work for the fulfillment of your kingdom. white people. Later transferred to Chicago, “Good Not to us the glory, but glory to you O God, Father Gus” ministered to the poor, serving at St. through Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord; Fa- Monica’s Catholic Church, an African-American ther, Son and Holy Spirit, you are our God, living parish. He was remembered for his eloquent ser- and reigning forever and ever. mons and beautiful singing voice. Amen During an extreme heat wave in 1897, Fr. Tol- ton collapsed and died of heat stroke at the age of 2010 Bishop Joseph N. Perry 43. Imprimatur Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, current Bishop Francis Cardinal George, OMI of Springfield Illinois, stated, “What a source of Archdiocese of Chicago great pride to have the nations’ first black priest live and minister in our diocese.” Fr. Tolton overcame the odds of slavery, preju- Special Thanks dice and racism to become a humble priest and Special Thanks to Myriam Germain. someone after whom we should model our lives. Mariam has volunteered to join the Please pray to Venerable Fr. Tolton as an Interces- AACC Steering Committee as the Courtesy Coor- sor before God. Two more miracles are needed dinator. She has graciously taken this task over before official canonization can be considered. from Valerie Branch. Her duties include hospital- ity (food & refreshments for various related Sources: Vatican News June 13, 2019; Catholic events) and Care/Well Being (Acknowledgement News Agency June 12, 2019; NY Times June 13, card for sympathy, get well, graduations, achieve- 2019 A19.
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