Lenten Reflections
“Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.”
Saint Francis de Sales
Lenten Reflections
2023 Fifth Annual Lenten Reflection and Discussion
Sundays: March 5, 12, 19, 26 at 3pm via Zoom
“Uncommon Faithfulness – The Black Catholic Experience”
M. Shawn Copeland, Editor
With LaReine-Marie Mosley, S.N.D.,and Albert J. Raboteau
Discussion leaders and the chapters we will read are as follows:
March 5, 2023
Presenter: M. Shawn Copeland, Professor emerita, Boston College, Theologian-in-Residence, St. Katharine Drexel Parish, Roxbury
Chapter 1: “Relating Race and Religion: Four Historical Models” written by Dr. Albert J. Raboteau
March 12, 2023
Presenter: Byron Wratee, Ph. D. Candidate, Boston College| Graduate School of Arts & Science
Chapter 11: “Uncommon Faithfulness: The Witness of African American Catholics,” written by (then) Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory
March 19, 2023
Presenter: Chanelle Robinson, Ph. D. Candidate, Boston College| Graduate School of Arts & Science
Chapter 9: “Faith of Our Mothers: Catholic womanist God-Talk,” written by Dr. Diana L. Hayes
March 26, 2023
Presenter: Lauren Warner, Ph. D., Student, Boston College| School of Theology and Ministry
Chapter 8: “Communion Ecclesiology: Implications for Ecclesial and Social Transformation in the Black Catholic Community,” written by Dr. Jamie T. Phelps, O.P.
2022 Fourth Annual Lenten Reflection and Discussion
Sundays: March 6, 13, 20, 27 at 3pm via Zoom
“Uncommon Faithfulness – The Black Catholic Experience”
M. Shawn Copeland, Editor
With LaReine-Marie Mosley, S.N.D.,and Albert J. Raboteau
Discussion leaders and the chapters we will read are as follows:
March 6, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Dianne Batts Morrow, Associate Professor Emerita, Departments of History and
African American Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
Chapter 2: “The Difficulty of Our Situation: The Oblate Sisters of Providence in Antebellum Society.”
March 13, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Cecilia A. Moore, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of
Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.
Chapter 4: “Dealing with Desegregation: Black and White Response to the Desegregation of the
Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1953.”
March 20, 2022
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Paulinus I. Odozor, C .S. Sp., Professor of Moral Theology/Theology of World
Church, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Chapter 13 : “African Catholics in the United States: Gifts and Challenges.”
March 27, 2022
Presenter: Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, Professor of Systematic Theology, Emerita, Boston College;
Theologian-in-Residence, St. Katharine Drexel Parish, Roxbury, Massachusetts
Chapter 14: “Pan-Africanism: An emerging Context for Understanding the Black Catholic
Experience,” by the Reverend Dr. Clarence Williams, C. P. P. S.
2021 Third Annual Lenten Reflection and Discussion
Taking Down Our Harps, Black Catholics in the United States
Diana L. Hayes and Davis, O.S.B. Editors
Moderated by Dr. M. Shawn Copeland and discussion leaders and the chapters we will read are:
February 28 Father Oscar Pratt II
Chapter 5 “Method in Emerging Black Catholic Theology,”
by Dr. M. Shawn Copeland
March 7 Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
Chapter 4, “And When We Speak: To Be Black, Catholic, and Womanist,”
by Dr. Diana L. Hayes
March 14 Dr. Andrew Prevot
Chapter 8, “Black Spirituality,” by Sr. Dr. Jamie T. Phelps, OP
March 21 Mr. Robert Gittens
Chapter 2, “Through the Eye of Faith: The Seventh Principle of the Nguzo Saba and the Beatitudes of Matthew,” by Dr. Diana L. Hayes
2020 Second Annual Lenten Reflection and Discussion
Taking Down Our Harps, Black Catholics in the United States
Diana L. Hayes and Davis, O.S.B. Editors
Chapters 1, 3, 6, and 7
2019 First Annual Lenten Reflection and Discussion
Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience
Dr. M. Shawn Copeland
