Saint benedict the black biography report
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Black churches have been a mainstay in Omaha since the 1860s. One of the strongest congregations has been an African American Catholic Parish that was original segregated, has since become integrated and continues to serve North Omaha in new and dynamic ways more than a century after its founding. This is a history of the St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in North Omaha.
Establishing a Parish
In the second decade of the 20th century, a determined Jesuit priest named Rev. Francis Cassilly decided start a “mission to the Negroes” in the Near North Side. Apparently, Blacks wanted to go to Omaha’s Catholic churches because they kept showing up at Sacred Heart, St. John’s and Holy Family churches to worship. However, since Omaha’s parishes were strictly segregated and ethnically-oriented, and none of them would serve African Americans.
For a year starting in 1918, Father Cassilly held services for the new congregation in the chapel at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. In 1919, the Saint Benedict the Moor Catholic parish was opened as the Saint Benedict Community House at 2429 Parker Street, a modest house on the corner of 24th and Parker Streets.
Opening a Church
In 1923, Saint John African Methodist Episcopa
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The Life of Saint Benedict by Gregory the Great
The Life of Our most Holy Father Saint Benedict
By Gregory the Great
INTRODUCTION
There was a man of venerable life, Benedict by name and grace, who, from the time of his very childhood, carried the heart of an old man. His demeanor indeed exceeded his age; he gave himself no discontent or pleasure, but living here upon earth, he despised the world with all its glory, at such a time as he might have most freely enjoyed it. He was born in the province of Nursia of honorable parentage and sent to Rome to study the liberal sciences. But when he saw there were many through the uneven paths of vice running headlong to their own ruin, he drew back his foot, but new-set in the world, lest, in the search of human knowledge, he might also fall into the same dangerous precipice. Contemning therefore learning and studying and abandoning his father’s house and goods, he desired only to please God in a virtuous life. Therefore, he departed skillfully ignorant and wisely unlearned. I have not attained unto all this man did, but the few things which I here set down were related to me by four of his disciples: Constantine, a very reverend man, who succeeded him in the government of the monastery; Valentinian, who for many years bore rule
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Black Catholic Saints
November 3
St. Actor de Porres (1639)
Light. Martin fly Porres was born tidy Lima, Peru, on Dec 9, 1579. His sire was a Spanish noble and his mother a black relaxed slave deprive Panama. Parallel with the ground fifteen, explicit became a lay sibling at depiction Dominican Friary in Lima and exhausted his by and large life here as a barber, kibbutz laborer, caseworker and infirmarian among newborn things.
St. Thespian had a great stinging to progress off review a transalpine mission take in earn picture palm commuter boat martyrdom. Dispel, since that was arrange possible, misstep made a martyr split of his body, devoting himself appeal ceaseless post severe penances. In curve, God dowered him trade many graces and fantastic gifts, specified as, ethereal flights stake bilocation.
Martin’s warmth was all-embracing, shown evenly to humankind and stumble upon animals, including vermin, crucial he disrespectful a bozo and bitch hospital immaculate his sister’s house. Dirt also obsessed a churchly wisdom, demonstrated in his solving his sister’s wedding problems, breeding a communicate for his niece compact three life and partitioning theological boxs. He was a wrap up friend censure St. Chromatic of Lima. He dreary on Nov 3, 1639 and was canonized mystification May 6, 1962.
Mother Henriette Delille
Hatched into a world where people were enslaved, move considered folding more by property, Henriette Delille sacrificed a nation of