This Schedule is in God’s hand,
and under the protect of Mary, the Mother of God
our loving Mother of Perpetual Help
September
First Friday
Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy Mother of God
Chapel
Shrine of St. Josephine Bakhita
At
Solid Ground Franciscan Ministry – St. Clare Friary
St. Peter Claver Day
Knights of Peter Claver
& Ladies Auxiliary Celebration
October
Respect Life Month
Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi
?
First Friday –
Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy
Mother of God Chapel
Shrine of St. Josephine
Bakhita
At
Solid Ground Franciscan Ministry – St. Clare Friary
?
10th Annual Black
Catholic Vigil for Life
Sponsored by the
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life
And all the major
National Black Catholic organizations
?
Respect Life Sunday
Eucharistic Sacrifice
honoring the canonization of
St. Josephine Bakhita and St. Katherine Drexel
?
TAKE
A LOVED ONE FOR A CHECK UP DAY
Sponsored by NBCAL
?
Respect Life Conference
November
All Souls Day All Saints
Day
Franciscans Gather in
Prayer to Remember the Ancestors
The African Burial
Ground on the Feast of St. Martin de Porres
Patron of Black Catholics
Sponsors:
Franciscan Confraternity of Solid Ground
Ministry-St. Clare Friary – New York City
And
Holy Cross Catholic Church “A Franciscan Community”
Bronx, New York
?
First Friday
Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy Mother of God
Chapel
Shrine of Saint
Josephine Bakhita
At
Solid Ground Ministry – St. Clare Friary
?
Black Catholic Triduum
Revival for Life
For more information
email:
Sground440@aol.com
Thanksgiving:
Special Distribution of Food and Care
to the Needy of New York City
December
WORLD AIDS DAY
?
First Friday –
Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy
Mother of God Chapel
Shrine of Saint Josephine Bakhita
?
National Black Catholic
Final Preparation Sessions for the
National Day of Prayer for the African
American Family 2008
To take place on the
First Sunday of Black History Month.
?
Solemnity of the
Immaculate Conception
?
Advent Black Catholic
Triduum Revival for Life
?
Christmas
Birth of Jesus Christ
our Lord and Savior
Jesus the Light of the
World- We give you the Glory!
?
Black Catholic Kwanzaa for Life
2007
Sponsored by
National Black Catholic
Apostolate for Life
For more information
and print out
www.blackcatholicsforlife.org
tnbcalife@aol.com
January 2008
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Sr. Beatrice Jeffries
Day – January 2, 2008
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Celebrations
?
Black Catholic Triduum
Revival for Life
For more information
contact us at sground440@aol.com
?
Black
Catholic Rosary Across America for Life
A Pro-Life event led by
the
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life – marking the anniversary of
the Roe v. Wade decision which made the evil of abortion in the U.S.
legal.
?
The Supreme Gene
Phillips, Sr. - Knights of Peter Claver
and
Supreme Lady Geralyn Shelvin – Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary
are the
National Coordinators for
“Black Catholic Rosary Across America for Life 2008”
Jesus Giver of Life – Make us a people for Life
February
First
Friday – Eucharistic Adoration for Life
?
Black History Month
Eucharistic Liturgy Celebrations
throughout the United States
?
First Sunday in
February
19th Annual
National Day of Prayer for the
African American Family
(Founded in 1989 by Fr. Jim Goode, OFM)
Feast of Saint
Josephine Bakhita
February 8, 2008
Nine Day Novena in
Preparation for the Feast
Each Day Beginning January 3l, thru February 8,
2008
at the
Holy Mother of God Chapel
Shrine of St. Josephine Bakhita
Sunday Eucharistic Celebration
February 10, 2008
9 AM
Holy Cross Catholic Church Bronx, New York
Jesus Giver of Life – Make us People for
Life
March
First Friday Eucharistic Adoration for Life
?
Lenten Prayers for the Healing of HIV-AIDS
Sponsored by USCCB:
Cultural Diversity Office
African American Catholic Concerns
Dr. Beverly A. Carroll, Convener
?
Black Catholic Triduum Revival for Life
For
more information contact us at
sground440@aol.com
?
Holy Week
?
Easter
Jesus Lives and because Jesus Lives we live!
Let the Church say Amen!
Somebody ought to say
Mercy!!!
April
First Friday Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy Mother of God Chapel
Shrine of Saint Josephine Bakhita
At
SGM – St. Clare Friary
May
Month of
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
First Friday
Black Catholic Triduum Revival for Life
For more information email us
at:
sground440@aol.com
June
First Friday – Eucharistic Adoration for Life
Holy Mother of God Chapel
Shrine of Saint Josephine Bakhita
?
Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
?
June is Abortion & All Acts of Violence Awareness Month
in the African American Community.
Pro-Life and End the Violence activities
will take place throughout this month in the
Black Catholic communities of the U.S.
For more information
www.blackcatholicsforlife.org
?
10th Annual
St. Charles Lwanga & Sr. Beatrice Jeffries
Young Achievers Awards and Scholarships.
Sponsored by
Solid Ground Franciscan Ministry.
For more information and
applications:
applications will be available February 4, 2008
www.solidgroundministry.com
?
Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
?
Black Catholic Triduum Revival for Life
For
more information contact us at:
sground440@aol.com
July
Joint Conference
of the
National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and the
National Black Sisters’ Conference
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life Presentation
Knights of Peter
Claver & Ladies Auxiliary
Annual Convention
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life Presentation
August September
Province
of the Immaculate Conception
Franciscan Missionary Union
Missionary-Evangelization Projects
&
Propagation of the Faith
Mission
Co-op Calls
October
To be announced
